New York City To Expand Surveillance Cameras And Sensors

New York City has announced the allocation of $24 million in Homeland Security grants to expand a network of private and public surveillance cameras, license plate readers and weapons sensors to cover much  of midtown Manhattan.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg answered critics of the increased surveillance by telling the New York Times,

“We live in a world where we have to have a balance. We can’t just say everybody can go everyplace and do anything they want.”

But modern surveillance systems put far more people under suspicion while doing practically nothing to fight crime. New York would seem to have not noticed the almost complete ineffectiveness of surveillance cameras in London. Only one crime was solved for each 1,000 CCTV cameras in London last year.