[privacy] San Francisco Surveillance Cameras Fail To Curb Crime

["Paul Ferguson" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

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Via CBS5.com (AP).

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An arsenal of surveillance cameras posted at San Francisco housing projects
have failed to lead to a single homicide arrest even though about
one-quarter of the city's murders happen on public housing property,
according to city officials.

The San Francisco Housing Authority has installed 178 cameras on its
properties over the past two years, but they are not regularly monitored,
officials said at a hearing held this week by the Board of Supervisors'
public safety committee. Instead, video shot by the cameras is only viewed
if requested by police.

The city of San Francisco has 70 other cameras installed at high crime
areas around the city that are similarly unmonitored.

Even when the cameras do catch crimes being committed, the footage can be
so grainy that the videos don't always yield usable details, especially at
night when most crimes occur, police homicide Lt. John Murphy said.

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More:
http://cbs5.com/local/local_story_227231102.html

- - ferg

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