By John V. Santore – Patch.com
Photos: Baruch Ezagui
A pilot program is rolling out new high-definition security cameras around Brooklyn in a bid to help police catch suspects.
The office of Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams is delivering $2,500 grants to local community groups and business improvement districts to fund the cameras’ installation.
Rather than installing cameras where none existed before — a costly process, Adams said during a Tuesday press conference — the program is hooking cameras up to the existing security systems of local businesses.
Each new set of cameras, which record the street around them, will be registered with the NYPD, Adams said, helping police to more quickly collect useful footage of crimes and potential perpetrators.
The Crown Heights Jewish Community Council has installed four cameras at the intersection of Albany Avenue and Union Street in Crown Heights.
Rabbi Eli Cohen, the Council’s executive director, said Tuesday that the neighborhood has become safer in recent years, but added that the cameras will provide images clear enough to identify suspects’ faces and license plates, helping to locate perpetrators like the individual who stabbed a Jewish man on Empire Boulevard in February.
Why just this corner when it’s businesses around that have private 24 cameras ?
Put it on Troy between Presibdent and Eastern Parkway – all hood is there
The cameras sees the intersection deliberately avoiding the Mikvah.
The cameras sees the intersection deliberately avoiding the Mikvah.
its a chutzpa to put it up over there
of all places
8, cause when we kiss up to the police, Hashem sets us straight by getting us more parking tickets. But we never learn though, we daven to Hashem in the morning, and by noon to the Sitrah Achrah, durring photo op ceremonies, when we give thanks and praise to The Police for WATCHING over us
THEY RECENTLY PUT UP 320 CAMREAS,WE MANAGED TO PUT UP FOUR WITH FIVE TIMES THE FAN FARE.
JUST SAYING….
What ever happened to privacy laws?
Unfortunately this community has a bunch of fools
This way they get to do another photo op at every corner!
we got 4 cameras!!!!! YAY
WT.?? crown is huuuuge and all they can do is 4 cameras? on one corner?
and make a whole press conference with photo up?
what is going on here???
why are they not working to get the police back to 770 ?
Another pr stunt by the machine both local and city wide.
What good is it to put up cameras (and in places where there are existing ones) when the non-existent jcc does nothing to pressure the cops and DA when they actually catch someone
The women coming out from the mikvah will feel safer as there are security cameras to deter any hoologans who might hurt them.
Are these clowns serious? Do they want to actually protect us, or are they just pretending to look busy?
If the NYPD can’t reliably patrol our streets, let them pay for an extensive network of cameras. At scale, $2,500 should pay for a lot more than four cameras.
I love surveillance.
Got a problem with my cameras? Why, got something to hide, eh?
“Exellent”
Now I can enjoy a better close-up view from my penthouse as I secretly watch my employees while they are working
its a good idea but why that corner there a women mikvah there and its not right