Can Surveillance Cameras Deter Crime?

10 March 2003 - 1:00pm

Crime-ridden cities are installing surveillance cameras to prevent crime.

" Soon, Richmond will join a handful of crime-ridden cities, including Washington and Baltimore, that use cameras to prevent crime.They started in banks and at ATM machines to catch robbers and vandals. Now, they're used in cities across the country to deter and detect crime 24 hours a day."

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Source: Richmond Times-Dispatch, March 9, 2003
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Its very unsuitability for an urban center justifies its current usage as a suburban or ex-urban pattern.