Cameras Installed in Crime-Plagued Area
In a pilot project aimed at deterring violent crime, two surveillance cameras have been installed outside a public housing project in the city’s troubled Western Addition neighborhood.
Mayor Gavin Newsom said more surveillance cameras could go up in other high-crime areas if the 90-day experiment was shown to reduce crime and residents were willing.
The first two cameras in San Francisco went up outside the Plaza East housing complex. Law enforcement authorities consider the area a hot spot for the drug trade and related violence.
“These cameras will make these thugs think twice about coming out here and causing all this trouble,” Plaza East resident Otis Harris said.
“At night, this place turns into a war zone,” he said. “I hear gunshots every night.”
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