Surveillance Cameras in Dallas Seen as Insignificant

A blog about Dallas police cameras focusing on petty crimes was published on Grits For Breakfast. The blog was about a disagreement on police surveillance cameras. The writer of the blog believes that surveillance cameras in Dallas are insignificant. The story starts off with four young adults caught on the surveillance cameras robbing a coin operated coin vending machine in downtown Dallas. One of the four young adults also turned out to be a murder suspect.

Tanya Eiserer at the Dallas News Crime Blog quotes that the department believes the surveillance cameras reduce crime by twenty percent in Dallas’ central business district. Although it looks like a big decline in crime, the cameras are only placed in the central business district. There are no surveillance cameras in Dallas neighborhoods so that crime is pushed into them equaling the crime rate in Dallas overall.

Despite the fact that a murder suspect was found due to the petty crime, the blogger still believes that cameras are less helpful for large crimes because only small crimes have been caught on camera. The writer of the blog doesn’t think that credit should be given to the surveillance cameras for catching that alleged murderer because he would have been discovered from being caught for his stupid behavior anyways.

I, on the other hand, believe that the surveillance cameras are extremely useful and should receive credit for catching an alleged murderer or even catching someone who ran a red light. The cameras may catch a petty crime like teenagers acting a fool, but the cameras could one day catch a kidnapping or help solve a murder. The new world of technology is amazing in this century. Those “insignificant” cameras can discover the face of a murderer or solve a mystery one of these days. It would be strange not to have them. I think that those cameras are very helpful and having them there helps the police force. It’s better having two sets of eyes than one and those cameras can be the other set of eyes.