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Security Camera Use To Increase In New York

Posted by: Nate Berg

2 October 2007 - 1:00pm

Looking to London as an example, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg has plans to expand the city's closed-circuit video surveillance camera system.

"Bloomberg, holding talks with his London counterpart Ken Livingstone, said such measures as London's "ring of steel" -- a network of closed-circuit cameras that monitors the city center_ were a necessary protection in a dangerous world."

"'In this day and age, if you think that cameras aren't watching you all the time, you are very naive,' Bloomberg told reporters at London's City Hall."

"London has one of the world's highest concentrations of surveillance cameras. An estimated 4 million CCTV cameras operate in Britain, and some civil liberties campaigners have warned the country is becoming a 'surveillance state.'"

"New York has far fewer, but the number is growing. Authorities hope to implement an $81.5 million version of the ring of steel for lower Manhattan, featuring surveillance cameras as well as barriers that could automatically block streets."

Full Story: NYC Mayor: Surveillance a City Necessity
Source: Newsday, October 1, 2007
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