Cameras, Cops and Crime in Peterborough
Submitted on August 25, 2011
By Matthew Davidson - August 22, 2011
...[The] debate [on surveillance cameras] is heating up in Peterborough, Ontario, where city council recently considered joining the ranks of other medium-sized cities in Ontario that have installed closed-circuit television (CCTV) cameras...“There is a shockingly transparent partnership between political power in the city, businesses and the police”...The money could be much better spent to address underlying causes of crime...such as poverty and marginalization. “Instead, it is being used to watch us.”
