by KYW’s Tony Hanson
Philadelphia police say a pilot program that has located cameras as various locations in the city is having an impact on crime and police say they eventually hope to have the ability to place cameras anywhere around the city.
Deputy police commissioner Jack Gaittens says the cameras started going up last summer and crime is down in most areas where the cameras are located. But, he concedes, it’s hard to tell how much crime has actually dropped or just migrated to other areas, although he believes it is having a positive impact.
And Deputy Commissioner Gaittens says they plan to expand the program:
“We want to establish a city-wide wireless network that will give us the ability to put a camera virtually anywhere in the city we need to; whether it's for major events, homeland security, crime issues, or quality of life issues.”
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