Editorial: Camera shy no more
We are delighted that the NYPD has finally approved security cameras for Fifth Avenue in the 70s an area where residents have been complaining repeatedly about drug activity as well as for several other areas in southwest Brooklyn.
Funding for the Fifth Avenue cameras has been available for about a year but word came just in the last week that the Police Department would indeed install the ARGUS cameras, which provide surveillance over a five-block radius.
Residents, who have observed teens smoking pot, and crushing and snorting pills on their quiet blocks, as well as dealing drugs and even casing area homes, have been clamoring for action, the more so as summer is just around the corner.