Why considering? Good question. What about the concept they had about having mounted PD? Seems to me the $ would be better spent on cameras.
--- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, "oakdorf" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Why consider, just act.... > the following: > > LONDON - Residents of big cities like New York and London must accept > that they are under constant watch by video cameras, New York Mayor > Michael Bloomberg said Monday. > > Bloomberg, holding talks with his London counterpart Ken Livingstone, > said such measures as London's "ring of steel" a network of closed- > circuit cameras that monitors the city center_ were a necessary > protection in a dangerous world. > > "In this day and age, if you think that cameras aren't watching you > all the time, you are very naive," Bloomberg told reporters at > London's City Hall. (EXCEPT AP) > > "We are under surveillance all the time" from cameras in shops and > office buildings, "and in London they have multiple cameras on every > bus and in every subway car," he added. > > "The people of London not only support it, but if Ken Livingstone > didn't do it they would try to run him out of town on a rail. We live > in a dangerous world, and people want to have security cameras." > > During his visit, Bloomberg was getting a demonstration of the ring > of steel, a system of cameras and road barriers introduced during the > years of Irish Republican Army bombings to protect London's central > business district. > > London has one of the world's highest concentrations of surveillance > cameras. An estimated 4 million CCTV cameras operate in Britain, and > some civil liberties campaigners have warned the country is becoming > a "surveillance state." > Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AsburyPark/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AsburyPark/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/