The mayor of Allentown (Penn.) has declared the city’s street video surveillance system a success and says there have been 29 arrests over the past 18 months from dispatchers seeing crime or directing officers to suspects. The dispatchers watch about 65 cameras throughout the city, and generated 1,215 incidents during 2008 from seeing suspicious activity or crimes. So far in 2009 the cameras have generated 750 incidents, although the mayor noted that over 400 of those were parking-related situations not handled by the police. The city hopes to add another 40 cameras to the system. Read more here.
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