Security cameras coming to the hill
13 Sep 2006
The Chronicle reports that fifty new security cameras will be installed in public housing projects around San Francisco over the next 18 months in an effort to make some of the city’s most crime-ridden neighborhoods safer.
The 50 federally funded cameras come from the Housing Authority’s capital budget and will be placed in housing projects serving families, including Potrero Hill.
Newsom and Housing Authority chief Gregg Fortner said the cameras have mostly been a hit with residents, and that people around the city have asked for the devices to be installed near their homes. Both men said their offices have received no requests from residents to take down the cameras.
• 50 cameras set for public housing sites [SF Chronicle]
Oakland is putting in gunshot sound detectors. Also a good idea from the sound of it. Whatever works. Cameras, sound detectors or more cops on the beat.
It is time to evict all public housing residents and demolish the projects.
San Francisco is not being served by allowing this cesspool to thrive.
It is cheaper for taxpayers to bring in well behaved folks.
RE: Rob, nice generalization on everyone in the projects being criminals and referring to them as a cesspool. Take your ignorance somewhere else.