Last year 43% of readers voted that that NYPD’s Sky Watch was useless. Now Animal New York reports on the retractable 20-foot-tall watchtower and now it’s popping up in more and more neighborhoods (…Crown Heights, Harlem [remember it was on Lenox Avenuia nd 129th Street] and DUMBO as a few). More recently one of the temporary watchtowers has been erected on Graham Avenue and Moore Street, which they pinpoint as “the Bushwickish section of Williamsburg.” Allegedly this one is for some robberies that have taken place in the area…
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Sky Watch, The Project Cameras, The Lamp Post Cameras, are a waste of tax payers dollars because no one knows the big secret and that is, they are not monitored by anyone, civilian or law enforcement. The only thing these cameras do is record and if a crime happen in the area then the tape is reviewed for clues.
Has any one seen a Police Officer in the Sky Watch Tower at any time?
I think this opens the door for what the British do with CCTV. This opens the door for funding to “man” these cameras. Is it a better way to spend ‘public dollars Vs the cop on the street’ is the question? In LA, CA they use mannequins dressed in police uniforms, sitting in cop cars at dangerous intersections to ‘prevent’ crime. In the not-to-distant future robotic cops might be used to do alot of this kind of policing.