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Man shot to death in South End
By JohnAKeith on Sat, 08/06/2011 - 2:59pm
Boston Police report a man in his early 30s was found shot to death at the corner of East Berkeley Street and Harrison Avenue around 4:50 a.m. - around the corner from where the MBTA recently put up a prominent tower-mounted camera. The man was pronounced dead at the scene.
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So did you think a camera
So did you think a camera would create a crime-free zone? It's not a force-field, it's a video recorder. As to privacy, when you're on the streets of Boston, you spend much of that time in view of a camera lens. That horse already left the barn.
On the other hand, I have no idea why the MBTA should be putting up cameras at that site.
Sky Tower
The Camera is not on Harrison, it's on Washington Street. So, if you have the choice between a small blue light and 25-30 men and women dealing drugs, smoking crack, having sex - what would you choose?
Edited post
Thanks for the location info.
Why does the camera need a blue light?
Won't it work just as well without that?
The point of the camera is to
The point of the camera is to make people live in fear. So the more obtrusive it is, the better.
Those savages
who continue to shoot up our neighborhoods and kill people don't GAF about cameras.
They're gonna do what they're gonna do.
Sorry about my errant post
Sorry for posting incorrect information. I should have checked first-hand before making the entry.
I think the towers are stupid and a waste of effort and do nothing to deter crime.
They're intimidation tactics, which the MBTA is getting very good at.
Silver Line
The Tower was put up because community leaders requested it. The Community was concerned about crime problems at the Silver Line stops on Washington street. The cameras along with extra patrols are part of a strategy developed by neighbors in the South End.
Who are these "leaders"?
Exactly which "community leaders" are you speaking of? The "Community" is no doubt mixed in the opinions on invasions of privacy.
The MBTA has also added a officer on a motorcycle to go up and down Washington Street / East Berkeley during daylight hours. Now there's a smart idea.
Cameras record, not prevent, crime. . .
If you haven't seen the chilling Philadelphia bus video of 4 men shooting up a bus, after concerned riders spoke up to an abusive mother, check out how the prosecutor is now using it in their prosecution.
Does the scenario sound familiar? Sans the shooting, we had the same story in Boston just this week, on the same bus route that gave rise to cameras after Dwayne Graham was murdered on the same route.
RIP to Boston's most recent murder victim. Not sure where the camera or crime actually occurred, but let's wait and see if maybe, it was captured on film. Here's hoping.
Uh
If you don't mind surveillance cameras everywhere, you must have more trust in public officials than I do.
Camera's prevent future
Camera's prevent future crimes.
They help catch criminals and prosecute (and hopefully) incarcerate them.
Thus preventing them from committing future crimes.
I'm not thrilled w/ the recording but you are in public and shouldn't expect much privacy.
As a law-abiding citizen, public cameras reviewed to solve crimes is very low on my list of govt intrusion worries.
There's a limit to what use that footage can be put to.
Now what the En Es Ay is doing is truly scary and open-ended.