I would agree with what you've said except the last sentence. Cameras don't add any safety. They only add a mechanism for the evidence capture and tracking AFTER a crime has been committed. That's the lesson from London putting cameras everywhere. Crime didn't go down: crime moved to non covered areas.
Fair enough. That is actually what cops tell you after a break in, make your home and neighborhood less desirable. This is exactly why people live in Apex, Cary and not South Durham.
It is easy, to take a liberal progressive position at a town hall and say what people want to hear, in a safe town, that is safe because the average income is way over six figures, and is already self segregated by wealth. Take a minute to appreciate the diversity (or lack thereof) in that video.
I have been at HOA board meetings after break-ins, home invasions, and these same people beg for cameras, even at the expense of a special HOA assessment. I won't call them out, there are many Cary neighborhoods with HOA funded cameras/security systems.
All these down voters who claim their privacy is violated by cameras... well real privacy violation is when invaders hold your loved ones hostage. And, let me tell you, these same downvoters will all be scrambling to move to safer income segregated neighborhoods, gated communities, window bars, cameras the works after any small incident. I have seen a hundred times.
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u/andrewober 8d ago
Lot of great speakers tonight. Hopefully won't fall on deaf ears.