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Mzuri
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Username: Mzuri
Post Number: 2177
Registered: 01-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, November 22, 2006 - 03:39 pm: | 
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NYPD Installs "Sky Watch" In Harlem Neighborhood
Nov 22, 2006
The NYPD has installed a patrol tower in a Harlem neighborhood in an effort to cut crime in the high-risk neighborhood.
The two-story booth tower, called Sky Watch, gives the officer sitting inside a better vantage point from which to monitor the area. Officers in the booth have access to a spotlight, sensors, and four cameras. The tower is portable and can be moved to the areas that need it most.
Residents in Harlem say they like the idea, though some wonder if the appearance of Sky Watch has anything to do with the two new luxury condos built on a nearby corner.
"There was crime around here before and they never had it. Now all these expensive buildings, it's true,” said one area resident. “But actually it's good though, because then I used to see a lot of crowd here and sometimes I was scared to pass here, but guess what, that doesn't happen anymore. It’s a kind of deterrence and it's good."
Police say the Harlem tower was placed there to combat a rise in murders.
Sky Watch has also been tested in Crown Heights in Brooklyn where it reduced crime. Police are hoping to have three more towers soon. |
Yukio
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Username: Yukio
Post Number: 1455
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, November 22, 2006 - 05:10 pm: |
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interesting...but soon the person who was once "scared" will become a victim of police brutality, b/c black people, especially those whose wardrobe doesn't fit the good negro profile, will be criminalized. |
Chrishayden
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Post Number: 3023
Registered: 03-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, November 24, 2006 - 04:58 pm: |
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And, New York being what it is, all those criminals who got enough money to pay off the cops will operate in broad daylight as usual-- |
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