Residents More Than Willing To Look Other Way On Privacy
NYC Subway Cameras (Photo/Stephen Chernin/AP)
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NEW YORK (CBS 2/1010 WINS) — As many as 500 cameras have been placed in nearly every corner of three of the busiest transit hubs in New York City – in the stairwells and on the platform.
All of them are keeping a close watch on who and what’s going in and out of our subways.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg didn’t waste time talking about the subways, “which we know terrorists regard as what they would call high value targets.”
LISTEN: 1010 WINS’ Reporter Stan Brooks gets details from Bloomberg on the new system
Bloomberg, NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly and Metropolitan Transportation Authority chairman Jay Walder announced the city’s newest security initiative on Monday.
Hundreds of MTA subway security cameras placed in Grand Central, Penn Station and Times Square are now directly piped into the NYPD’s security operation center, allowing police eyes in places where they didn’t have them before...
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