From: Ellen K. 

I would have been interested to see exactly where in Brooklyn they are trying it.

Re the ACLU screams, since when is there an expectation of privacy on a
public street?

On Mon, 17 Apr 2006 11:31:09 -0400, "Dave Ings"
 wrote in message :

>Here is one British trend I wish the US had resisted:
>
>http://tinyurl.com/lq4rk
>NEW YORK (AP) -- Along a gritty stretch of street in Brooklyn, police this
>month quietly launched an ambitious plan to combat street crime and
>terrorism. But instead of cops on the beat, wireless video cameras peer down
>from lamp posts about 30 feet above the sidewalk.
>
>They were the first installment of a program to place 500 cameras throughout
>the city at a cost of $9 million. Hundreds of additional cameras could
>follow if the city receives $81.5 million in federal grants it has requested
>to safeguard Lower Manhattan and parts of midtown with a surveillance ''ring
>of steel'' modeled after security measures in London's financial district.

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