From the Daily News:Big Brother is watching -- and solving crime.
The NYPD's network of silent sentries -- cameras posted on lampposts across the five boroughs -- has provided evidence in hundreds of criminal cases and helped cops solve an array of major crimes.
The Argus cameras are housed below large white boxes, clearly marked with the NYPD insignia, and are set about 20 feet off the ground near a warning: "NYPD Area Under Surveillance."
The cameras, installed in 2006, have so far captured 349 images used to help investigators, police said.
In all, there are 315 cameras citywide, with the bulk of them (145) in Manhattan. Brooklyn has 75, Queens 60, The Bronx 22 and Staten Island 13.
23 comments:
Try using your own camera to capture images of a cop breaking the law. Then try dislodging the camera from your throat while handcuffed in a squad car.
Used lawfully, the cameras can be used effectively as a tool for a variety of difficult situations, preventively and otherwise.
For example: They can be used in high people traffic areas such as the Roosevelt Ave subway stop and bus terminal where folks are routinely vulnerable to crime while waiting for buses or arriving to take the trains.
Better yet, the cameras can be placed in more desolate areas of Elmhurst, Maspeth and Middle Village say the LIE service roads on 57 Ave where grafitti and garbage dumping is a persistent issue. The camera's deterency qualities have a great impact of possibly slowing this crimes.
Slowly-but-surely we are becoming a police state.
These cams are just the tip of it, there are -many- more cameras supposedly for traffic, but many of them are focusable too.
There was a case where private "security" goons were aiming them into people's open windows.
Almost every building in my area (UES) has at least one fixed focus camera outside and I managed to kill the attempt to install them in our lobby and elevators.
Fear and timidity is leading us down a very bad and undemocratic path.
You would think Homeland Security would be able to have cameras in the subways by now.
No "Lino"...were are fast becoming an ineffective police state!
But I just love my camera phone.
Snap...capture...inconspicuous...and it's off to my computer in a flash.
So even if my phone gets snatched the image is safely on my desktop!
THEN IT GETS FORWARDED!!!
I've got 4 point of view cameras on my house.
A great addition to any security system...with reduced rates on my homeowner's insurance.
Praise be to my "big brother" system!
There are hit-and-runs where kids die every night now, right? More cameras please. Everywhere. Many Thanks. Oh, and as to using your own camera to capture images of "a cop breaking the law"-- whatever that means-- I recommend a better use of your time.
To the hit & run anon: the problem is that the police, charged with enforcing and upholding the law, too often decide that the law does not apply to them. If the cops are supposed to protect and serve me, who will protect me from the cops?
Remember this guy?
They should put these cameras in City Hall, so the public can watch our councilmembers make their shady deals and steal our taxpayer dollars. Air it on primetime and watch the ratings soar. I'm sure our politicians would think it an invasion of their privacy. Well, that's what the average citizen thinks about these cameras on the streets of New York. I thought the city didn't have any money. This is why. I'm sure someone scored a huge contract and all the powers that be got kickbacks. Big Brother Is Here To Stay!
They should put them in every single courtroom in the country -
It actually would make a great reality show - It's quite a hoot to see how judges tramble on our due process rights and/or how lawyers use them a puppets to do their own dirty deeds.
I am the eye in the sky,
Looking at you,
I can read your mind.
I am the maker of rules,
dealing with fools,
I can cheat you blind.
To the hit & run anon:
-"Oh, and as to using your own camera to capture images of "a cop breaking the law"-- whatever that means-- I recommend a better use of your time."
Oh, that's right cops are above the law. Protect and serve who? People or the system? I recommend not trying to tell others what to do.
-"There are hit-and-runs where kids die every night now, right? More cameras please. Everywhere."
Really? It's always for the children, sounds reasonable until your "everywhere" has cameras in your house making sure you raise the children of the state (not your kids anymore) the way the state decrees. Sounds unlikely? It's already being implemented in the U.K. and is on it's way here. You're allowed to roll over and accept it, you're not allowed to vote and force it on others.
Scared of crime, carry a gun. These cameras may catch the criminal after you're killed, my pistol will turn that repeat offender into a dead offender. 'Nuff said.
Alan Parsons said: "I am the maker of rules,dealing with fools, I can cheat you blind."
Lawyers' oath?
Lawyers' oath?
No, lyrics to an early 80's soft rock classic!
The song is in part a reference to George Orwell's classic novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, regarding a possible future in which individual privacy is virtually non-existent due to the ever-watching eye of Big Brother. In the novel, citizens are constantly monitored by hidden video recording equipment.
They should have had a camera in that granny raping ex-councilman Dennis Gallagher's office.
Na...fugghettaboutit...he'll watch the instant replays in slow-mo and get hot all over again...the pervert.
BREAKING NEWS...he's now working for Councilman Peter Koo!
YOU'VE BEEN OUTED AS HARBORING A SEXUAL PERVERT C.M. Koo!
Watcha gonna do about it?
Good luck getting re-elected!
Hi Alan.
Saw your band in that Bronx park last summer.
It was the night Billy Barnes got killed by a crane on the Throgs Neck Bridge.
Welcome to QC I knew it wouldn't be long. Hows living in Long Island City VS London
PS: Your Band members due more boring talking then playing
Paranoia,big destroyer.......
Allan said: "No, lyrics to an early 80's soft rock classiche song is in part a reference to George Orwell's classic novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, regarding a possible future in which individual privacy is virtually non-existent due to the ever-watching eye of Big Brother. In the novel, citizens are constantly monitored by hidden video recording equipment."
Your perfect analogy was lost on me! Thanks for the explanation!
Who watches the watchmen?
does anyone from the (ues)) know why Obama (while campaigning) almost swore that the U.S. citizens would be able to view congressional democrats cut deals behind closed doors on C-Span, and when elected did not permit them to be public ?was he a liar?
I'll bet when the cops catch that pos that beat the woman senseless in the midtown bar yesterday, we'll all be glad for security cameras.
you got that right - there was a pic of the sc*mbag already posted in the Daily News.
Lino you're lucky you don't live in my building. I'd beat your ass down in the elevator or lobby and noone would be able to prove it :)
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