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I always feel like somebody's watching me

It looks like Austin will become the next city to waste money on expensive anti-crime cameras that will never live up to the crime-reduction promises made to secure them. Reported KXAN-TV:The Austin Police Department laid out a plan for more than two dozen public safety cameras to be put up in two high-crime areas of the city. The Austin Public Safety Commission heard the plan at their meeting Monday night and voiced little opposition. The APD plans to install the majority of the 26 cameras in the Downtown area and some at Rundberg Lane and I-35. "One of the things that we know is that public safety cameras can actually reduce crime so they're very important to us," said Assistant Police Chief David Carter. Opponents of the cameras argue they invade privacy and do little to deter crime and instead displace it...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on June 08, 2010 (boomark / email).