Security Cameras Now Up in the Delmar Loop
Cameras are placed around the Loop area.
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The surveillance camera system for the Delmar Loop is now operational.
Blueberry Hill owner Joe Edwards told Loop Special Business District members Tuesday that cameras were up and the resolution was good.
"They can zoom in enough to read a license plate," he said when discussing the zoom capability of the cameras.
The cameras are attached to buildings and provide University City Police with a view of the street and public parking lots. While the cameras had been in the works for years, business owners really pushed for them after a particularly disruptive weekend last April in the Loop, which involved hundreds of unruly young people.
Under the original budget several cameras were placed around the area. University City's Director of Public Works, Parks and Forestry Rich Wilson previously told the Loop business owners that the nature of the system is expandable so that additional cameras can be added as needed.
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Blueberry Hill Restaurant & Music Club
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Earl Higgins
9:08 am on Wednesday, August 15, 2012
So do people feel safer now? Joe, if I enjoy one of your establishment's tasty burgers on one of your outside tables, am I being spied on? Don't I have a right to know this is a private citizen?
I am not some privacy crackpot, but it does weird me out a little to know someone can be watching me (listening to me?) without my knowledge. What do they do with the footage anyway?
Holston Black Jr.
10:03 am on Wednesday, August 15, 2012
I need to go back and reread "1984" to bring myself up to date on what was predicted, and has it come to fruition with all of our technology! Public meetings with a police presence, some urban schools with metal detectors and uniformed security (how long before all schools need this or at least are perceived to need this), Civil buildings with metal detectors, surveillance cameras in all businesses, all events, on public transportation, and on and on is this our future? To what end are we headed do those people that stay inside their homes who are afraid to come out, have the RIGHT idea? Is paranoia robbing us of our sense of liberty and freedom?
I hope there is and end to this but I certainly don't know where that is. I hope some of you wise people who seem to always have the answers will solve this rush toward the precipice of hopelessness.
Helen Sanders
9:27 pm on Thursday, August 16, 2012
As long as we continue to have such an expanse of freedom to purchase weapons in this country we will have a need to access a record of violent events. Watching events probably won't deter or prevent them, but at least we might catch the person and prevent them from doing it again. Maybe someday we will have gun control for guns that are clearly designed to annihilate humans. Until then I feel that maybe a few cameras are a small price to pay. Of course I wonder if they will use them to give out DUIs? Too bad the young ones are so violent and stupid these days. And as far as 1984 - that's been here for YEARS. If there is hope... it lies with the proles. Uh, that's us. DON'T FORGET TO VOTE!