SFist: Security Cameras - A Help or a Boondoggle?

Generic

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 21:46:14 -0800

Yep. We gave them a chance. If they don't work, they don't work.

KWillets

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 12:44:50 -0800

This is San Francisco -- we've made them a help and a boondoggle.

bluecanary

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 11:50:14 -0800

or "since we invaded iraq, there have been no terrorist acts on american soil."

travin

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 11:40:05 -0800

- good theater, but fundamentally worthless? Not mentioning the fact that it's an affront to freedom and civil liberties. They need to go. It's just a money grab. As the studies have shown, cameras only deter crime within 500 feet of the camera, but significantly increase shortly beyond that. In Europe, mostly I've heard about GB, the cameras are vandalised or completely destroyed on a regular basis.

CentralServices

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 11:22:53 -0800

As a resident of Haight/Webster, the cameras don't seem to deter anything. The dealing still goes on and if the cops drive by, the dealers go into Two Jacks Seafood or S&W liquors. After living here for 6 years, I am on good terms with the local baseheads. There's Serpent and the Rainbow, Slalom Skier, Predator and Erkel. I think Erkel just got pinched last week though.

pancakebreakfast

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 11:04:42 -0800

Spot the difference: "On the other hand, nobody's been shot at Haight and Webster in some time." "Ever since I bought this rock, no bears have attacked me."