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Displacement Effect

January 7th, 2009
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[From CCTV camera pushes crime into blind spot @ SecurityInfoWatch.com]

A story that illustrates the classic displacement effect. This occurred in Flint, MI using a 2 camera system.

To those living in view of the police security camera at Cecil and Jewell drives on the city’s north side, the camera has really cleaned up the neighborhood.

But residents who live just out of the camera’s range tell a completely different story.

“Now what happened is the drug dealers have went on the side streets because the camera just does not get down those side streets,” said Curtis Baker, president of the Northeast Carpenter Road Neighborhood Association. “We have a drug house on just about every street now.”

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