The United Jewish Organizations of Williamsburg (UJO) is urging NYS lawmakers to support and quickly adopt legislation to be introduced by Assemblyman Dov Hikind, Assemblyman Peter Abbate and State Senator Diane Savino entitled “The Leiby Initiative” which grants a $500 annual tax credit to New York City property owners who purchase, install, and maintain surveillance cameras around their property.
On Wednesday morning, the UJO held an emergency meeting in the wake of Leiby’s brutal murder with the local Williamsburg volunteer organizations Shomrim, Hatzolah, Chaverim and Chesed and “Secure our Community” (SOC) was quickly formed. Secure our Community is a grassroots effort to encourage property owners to install recording surveillance cameras.
Part of SOC’s mission is to compile a database of existing cameras, to be held by Shomrim, so in the event of a crime, footage can quickly be obtained. SOC is also working with surveillance camera vendors to offer cameras at a reduced cost in support of the community. While formed as local Williamsburg project, SOC will gladly give technical support to all communities that are interested in replicating it.
Rabbi David Niederman, President of the UJO said, “Assemblyman Hikind has been working tirelessly day and night since Leiby’s abduction and his proposed legislation will really encourage people to not only secure their properties but their entire community. I strongly urge all legislators to support this vital legislation and quickly adopt it as New York State Law.”
For more information about Secure Our Community visit: www.secureourcommunity.org
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I had a similar idea for a long time, i wanted to implement in Lakewood but never did anything about it. Basically get a few wealthy people to sponsor homeowners to install cameras on their properties all over town, a good system can be had for $3,000 if we can get 10-15 wealthy people to sponsor the cameras it will go a long way in preventing and solving crimes it will benefit everyone. If anyone is willing to help me implement this or donate please email me at [email protected]
I’m sure many privacy advocates won’t be very excited about this but it may be accomplished due to the fact that fighting it at this present time would seem calous!
To #1:
$3,000 is a lot of money for most people.
Does that $3,000 include installation?
Also, how good is the video on these systems.
Can these systems be used to monitor who is at your front door when someone rings the bell?
ichbin:
Preferably 1080p, with a high signal-to-noise ratio, and a sensor no smaller than 1/2.3″.
It can be done for less but it defeats the purpose because a low quality night vision camera is counter productive and a good night vision camera runs about $500 each. I’m a very big privacy advocate and thats why i propose asking private individuals (not Government) to host the system on their property, and law enforcement would only gain access with permission from the home owner and only when a crime is committed