Update on Chicago Housing AuthorityChicago Tribune news : Local news
From Chicago Tribune:
More cameras at CHA. This was first noted back in May.
24 cameras will be installed in public housing. The cameras will include gunshot detection. 5 of the cameras will replace existing cameras around Cabrini-Green with gunshot sensors. 19 more will be allocated based on crime levels and requests by resident leaders.
The NBC5 has some nice quotes:
Daley said city officials are not concerned that the cameras pose a threat to privacy in high-density residential areas.
“When we first started (Operation Disruption), it was very controversial. Some elected officials said they don’t want them in their communities. But I’ll be very frank, if you go to any wealthy community, any high-rise in suburban areas, they have guards, they have technology, they have cameras. You can’t get in their buildings,” Daley said.
“Why is it people living in some of these struggling communities can’t have the safety that everyone else has?” Daley added. “It’s just using technology, it’s only on the streets, the sidewalks and the alleys. We do not shoot into someone’s apartment or their backyard or their front yard, it’s just in public ways.”
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