Tuesday, September 24, 2013

Security Surveillance Cameras Coming To Boro Park

In a city that’s ramped up surveillance since the 9/11 attacks, the next big installation of security cameras is not in the bustle of midtown Manhattan or near a well-known tourist attraction but in a leafy section of Brooklyn known for its low crime and large Orthodox Jewish population.

A hundred security cameras will be installed on public lampposts throughout the Midwood and Borough Park neighborhoods in the coming months — the result of a $1 million state grant secured in the wake of a horrifying tragedy: the 2011 abduction, dismemberment and murder of an 8-year-old Hasidic boy named Leiby Kletzky. The taxpayer-funded security system will augment an already insular Orthodox community that has its own volunteer police force, ambulances and schools.

The cameras will be monitored and controlled by a private security company. As a result, the police will have to ask for permission if they want to access the footage.

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