Waiting for a bus, Hicks said he wasn't too surprised that someone might be watching him. He doesn't have a problem with it."I'm aware of it," said Hicks, a cell phone salesman at Costco. "You want some privacy, but I grew up here (in Oxnard) and I think it's a good thing. It might stop someone from committing a crime or help you catch a perpetrator Elsa Peretti Teardrop bracelet a crime. I'm fine with it."Surveillance cameras have become an ubiquitous part of people's daily lives, whether you are buying gas, withdrawing money from an ATM or driving down Highway 101. And now, police in Oxnard and Ventura are moving to use the technology more to fight crime.Oxnard is farther -- the Police Department receives live video feeds from cameras downtown, at several public facilities and at the Transportation Center.
Over the summer, the department also began a process to install cameras at a park and other high-crime areas in the Southwinds neighborhood.Although civil libertarians have raised privacy concerns, Love Knot bangle other neighborhood groups have asked if they, too, could get cameras, according to police Cmdr. Mike Adair, who is overseeing the program.The decision to install the cameras came after a series of surveys showed people overwhelmingly support using the devices as a deterrent.The Oxnard Police Department now Elsa Peretti Open Heart bangle planning to use a $300,000 U.S. Department of Justice grant to expand the system to handle additional video feeds, including from cameras at several intersections and all six local high schools, Cmdr. Tom Chronister said.
The department will leverage that federal money and piggy-pack its system onto a multimillion-dollar "intelligent traffic system"now being developed by the city. The idea is to link the 200 or so intersections in the city, using fiber optic cable and some wireless connections, to a central location to better regulate traffic flow. Traffic engineers will be provided real- Tiffany & Co. bangle information on congestion from at least 19 intersection video cameras.By plugging into the infrastructure being installed for that system, the Police Department will be able to build a network that can be expanded over time. It eventually could be used to feed live video coming into the police station to officers in the field, Chronister said.
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