No Candid Cameras

Places as varied as Washington, DC Tazewell, Va., (population 4200) and corporation campuses deploy surveillance cameras as a way to fight crime. on the other hand cameras placed in public venue highlight a try fraught with heated emotion: security versus privacy.

Bellows Falls, a Vermont town with 3000 residents and eight full-time police officers, was abiding-place to such a struggle last winter. In February, town trustees vot down plans to install 16 surveillance cameras, a plan capitaled by a federal grant.

Chief Keith Clark propos the cast at the end of 2004 as a way to support crime-fighting efforts (particularly antivandalism), spe investigations and guard critical facilities of that kind as the water treatment plant. Bellows Falls, he points on the outside does have crime; the village reported no assassinations but there were 11 aggravated assaults, sum of two units rapes and 16 burglaries in 2004 The village received $98664 in grant circulating medium from the Department ...