BY HANNAN ADELY • HADELY@LOHUD.COM • APRIL 18, 2010
NEW ROCHELLE — Feel like you’re being watched?
That could be the case soon in New Rochelle, where the city is preparing to install up to 20surveillance cameras on its public streets. The cameras will be used downtown, at highway ramps and near schools to monitor traffic, promote public safety, and investigate past crimes, city officials said.
“It is a tremendous investigative tool. People do things regardless of whether there is a camera or not, and we are able to capture it,” said New Rochelle Police Deputy Commissioner Anthony Murphy.
Police departments in urban areas across the country are boosting video surveillance as a tool to fight crime. The growing presence of these cameras, though, has triggered debate about how far societies should go to be safe and whether the price paid — a loss of privacy and, some say, civil rights — is worth it.
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