[privacy] San Francisco Surveillance Cameras Fail To Curb Crime

[Blanchard_Michael at emc.com]

Idiots....  They take the time and more so spend the money to put up all these cameras and don't bother to put up good quality cameras?  C'mon people!  Why even bother to spend the money if you're going to put up crap cameras that produce video that is so grainy that you can't tell who is committing the crime....  

   I'll bet the new cameras in the UK can zoom in on a pimple on a perp's cheek in perfect clarity day or night.....  If you're going to do it, do it right or not at all!

  Sorry for the rant....

Michael P. Blanchard 
Antivirus / Security Engineer, CISSP, GCIH, CCSA-NGX, MCSE
Office of Information Security & Risk Management 
EMC ² Corporation 
4400 Computer Dr. 
Westboro, MA 01580 


-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Ferguson [mailto:fergdawg at netzero.net] 
Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2007 5:13 PM
To: privacy at whitestar.linuxbox.org
Subject: [privacy] San Francisco Surveillance Cameras Fail To Curb Crime

Via CBS5.com (AP).

[snip]

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.

[snip]

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

- ferg


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