NYPD\u2019s central digital surveillance system<\/a> \u2014 so police don\u2019t have to go through the time-consuming process of getting the NYCHA feeds on a case-by-case basis.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tGet opinions and commentary from our columnists\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
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The same folks who freaked out over Fire Department investigators sharing crime-fighting information with their police colleagues now baselessly claim cops will share the video feed with federal immigration authorities.<\/p>\n
For more than two decades, the NYPD\u2019s VIPER unit has successfully used security cameras at some developments to enhance real-time vertical patrols, criminal investigations and predictive policing.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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Speedier access to all available NYCHA video feeds means thugs who shoot, maim or otherwise victimize public-housing tenants get ID\u2019d, nabbed and prosecuted more quickly.<\/p>\n
The city Public Oversight of Surveillance Technology Act requires the Police Department to report on its policies and use of this tech; that\u2019s more than enough to catch any abuse of the NYCHA feeds.<\/p>\n
With the NYPD short on manpower and already hemmed in by state and city \u201ccriminal-justice reforms,\u201d smart use of technology is vital to public safety.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Of course, public safety is the last thing on the minds of Legal Aid, the NYCLU, defense attorneys, City Council progressives and all the other usual pro-crime suspects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It may infuriate the anti-cop \u201cprivacy\u201d loons, but news that the NYPD has direct access to cameras in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":233,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[300,301,302,303,304,9,24,63,305,103,299,306,307,308,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-cameras","tag-city-council","tag-city-hall","tag-crime","tag-editorial","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-nycha","tag-nypd","tag-opinion","tag-privacy","tag-public-housing","tag-public-safety","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}