(Surveillance by Jay Phagan. Shared Under CC BY 2.0. Source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/jayphagan/33870031091)
Nowadays, college campus and inner city metropolitan areas are beginning to add surveillance cameras around the area. These cameras provide a direct a stream to a control room that is monitored by security personnel's. However, when I read this statement, I was shocked because my apartment building has security cameras that are in place but are rarely checked or catch individuals committing a crime. Due to this circumstance, my thought of security cameras are pointless or a waste of money. However, the article when on to explain the benefits of them and actually gained back my trust.
A few examples the articles use to explain how powerful or great they are is that some colleges have placed over 600 cameras around their campus and have the ability to display as many images as they like on a screen. Furthermore, control rooms have been juiced up on the analytics power through its ability to break down long film into segments just by stating key descriptive words to narrow in on the suspect from a footage.
Lastly, I'm not sure if our campus has this ability with their surveillance cameras but I hope they do. This is because the surveillance camera's and analytic program discussed in this article has said that they have been able to improve monitoring of off-campus properties and university parking lots. Cuing into these areas, would decrease the number of reported crimes on campuses as well catch more individuals that do commit these crimes.
Reference: Hayhurst (2017). Link: Analytics makes fast work of video surveillance searches
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