More Cameras
From chicagotribune.com:
An update on the current state of cameras. Chicago is buying 100 more cameras, bringing the total to 559. [I have no idea what types of cameras are counted to get to 559, my history shows a much smaller number of the latest high-tech cameras since 2004]. Gunshot detection is still buggy and not ready for deployment. The new cameras are smaller than the original cameras and have no lights and resemble street lamps.
Speaking at a West Side news conference, Daley reminded reporters of critics who complained the cameras were invasive when he introduced them in 2004. “They underestimated people who live in this city people who have to deal with gangs guns and drugs on a daily basis,” Daley said. “All wealthy people have cameras in all the high rises, suburban areas. … Why can’t the average person in the city of Chicago? Everyone wants a camera. They want to have a camera in front of every home, every block, because they feel much safer.”
Over the last 20 months, criminal activity captured by police cameras “directly assisted” in making 1,458 arrests, said interim police Supt. Dana Starks. In the first murder case the cameras may have helped solve, police a few months ago nabbed a suspect in the killing of a 14-year-old boy who was shot not far from the street corner at 23rd Street and Marshall Boulevard where Thursday’s news conference was held.
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