Brooklyn Today
NYPD STATEMENT ON MTA CAMERAS: Following complaints from ridership about malfunctioning surveillance cameras that failed to record the sequence of events during Tuesday’s attack on the subway, the NYPD issued a statement in defense of its operations, and attributing the camera problem to a technical issue. The statement, bearing signatory of John Miller, Deputy Commissioner, Intelligence and Counterterrorism, reads (in part), “The MTA is a vital partner in the NYPD’s Domain Awareness System and supplies live feeds from 5,100 cameras and an additional 5,000 cameras that record locally throughout the subway system. These are used on average dozens of times on a daily basis to identify specific incidents, crimes and to identify perpetrators. We communicate with the MTA about outages when they occur. Miller attributed the success in capturing the gunman to witness descriptions, law enforcement coordination and the recovery of other video and clues.
Miller added, “The MTA cameras in other parts of the system were essential elements in determining his movements before and after the shootings. Their personnel worked with us around the clock to identify and retrieve images in this case.”
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