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Issue: 1165 Date: 12/20/2012
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University City to add more surveillance cameras in Loop
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UNIVERSITY CITY - More surveillance cameras are coming to the Delmar Loop entertainment district.
At its regular meeting Monday night, the University City Council approved a plan to add two cameras to those installed over the summer.
The additions to the Loop camera system are part of a series of steps that the city is taking to deter crime. In recent weeks, the city has authorized the hiring of four more police officers, discussed the formation of an anti-crime task force and hired a public relations firm that is, in part, to promote crime prevention and awareness.
The new cameras are to be added to one already in operation on the city's multi-level Loop parking garage and, according to a memo from Police Chief Charles Adams, will provide enhanced electronic surveillance of street-level activity along Delmar Boulevard.
"The two cameras would record movements - east and west Delmar, respectively - on a continual basis," Adams wrote.
"It (the surveillance system) is very valuable to the police," said Councilman Arthur Sharpe Jr., who, along with Councilman Byron Price, requested $35,500 to add the two cameras and to make other enhancements to the city's existing camera system. The system also includes cameras at City Hall and police headquarters.
City Manager Lehman Walker would not divulge the number of cameras already in operation in the Loop. The cameras were first installed as part of stepped-up efforts to monitor waves of unruly youths who have sometimes gathered in the Loop and disrupted other activities, such as dining at sidewalk cafes. Original plans called for the installation of six Loop cameras at a cost of $160,000. A 9 p.m. curfew for persons under 17 was also enacted.
The council voted to approve the cameras over the objections of Mayor Shelley Welsch. She said that she wanted more input from the police for a plan that considered citywide needs, crime statistics and public support.
"This council should not be making this decision," said Welsch, who abstained from the vote.
Price said: "The police chief says this is what he wants." |
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