DCist: Crime Cameras for Trinidad

deesee

Mon, 22 Dec 2008 10:50:23 -0500

Also, why id DC continually buying these crime cameras at an avergage cost of $100,000/camera?! It'd be easy to create a remotely accessible camera and recorder for less than 10k. With little to show and a very high cost, cameras are a waste.

deesee

Mon, 22 Dec 2008 10:47:59 -0500

Lanier doesn't live in Trinidad. She has a house near Fort Lincoln, but she doesn't actually live there full-time. She usually lives at her real house in Maryland.

sashimi

Sat, 20 Dec 2008 03:25:04 -0500

"thank goodness everyone in trinidad is wealthy and bored enough to sit around their houses all day staring at a computer screen waiting to see crime happen." whatever makes wealthy and bored people happy. the answer to the meaning of life.

majapa

Fri, 19 Dec 2008 19:17:52 -0500

I think these are more for catching criminals after the fact then preventing crime. I don't mind camera at all if they actually help catch crooks. These things don't do shit. I know someone who just finished her employment with the Public Defender Service, and even if they know exactly where a crime happened, there are two impediments to these actually ever being used: 1) the fact that MPD only keeps the past 3 days worth of tape, and 2) petitions/subpoenas to get the tape take much longer than three days to process. So basically they're a deterrent but not an effective tool at all. Keep hoping though!

jaime

Fri, 19 Dec 2008 16:46:42 -0500

mullenta shoddy reporting - at least as far as i know. lanier lives in ward 5, but over in the new development by fort lincoln. NE, ward 5, and any neighborhoods within either tend to be one and the same to reporters.

mullenta

Fri, 19 Dec 2008 15:54:06 -0500

The post article had the following sentence: "Lanier, who resides in the Trinidad neighborhood, said crime is down about 5 percent generally in the past month." How long has Lanier lived in Trinidad? I'd think I'd have known this having lived there the past 3 years...is this recent or shoddy reporting?

dc4life

Fri, 19 Dec 2008 15:27:14 -0500

I still want them while I'm here.

Wizzyliz

Fri, 19 Dec 2008 15:22:33 -0500

Can I get a couple of these in my bedroom?

monkeyrotica

Fri, 19 Dec 2008 15:21:00 -0500

"Your hood?" I thought your ass was moving to Silver Spring? Would a couple cameras be enough to make you stay?

dc4life

Fri, 19 Dec 2008 14:51:00 -0500

When can we get these in Eckington? We need one on every corner in my hood.

badtzmaru

Fri, 19 Dec 2008 14:38:06 -0500

I'm filming out_on_an_island as we speak. stop picking your nose.

out_on_an_island

Fri, 19 Dec 2008 14:36:22 -0500

I think these are more for catching criminals after the fact then preventing crime. I don't mind camera at all if they actually help catch crooks. As far as the camera 'privacy policy' goes, shouldn't it be the same as it would be for a citizen taking photos in public? That is, you can freely photograph anything and everything that is visible from a public space. Quite simply, if you are in public, you can expect to have your picture taken.

redscare

Fri, 19 Dec 2008 14:16:19 -0500

psh, white people and their foolish "crime prevention" toys

IMGoph

Fri, 19 Dec 2008 14:08:28 -0500

thank goodness everyone in trinidad is wealthy and bored enough to sit around their houses all day staring at a computer screen waiting to see crime happen.

monkeyrotica

Fri, 19 Dec 2008 14:04:37 -0500

Well, at least it's cheaper than having a foot patrol. Oh wait.

carn

Fri, 19 Dec 2008 13:47:10 -0500

Oh amazing! I'm sure this will lower the crime rate in trinidad just like it did in columbia heights.. oh wait..

monkeyrotica

Fri, 19 Dec 2008 13:33:26 -0500

How difficult would it be to rig these cameras up with rifles? I mean, if you're going to the trouble to monitor suspicious activities, wouldn't you want the option to pre-emptively shoot people in the back while they attempt to leave a crimescene? Kinda makes sense when you consider these things are being sponsored by Target anyway.