Stop Video Surveillance! - Police Commission Meeting Wed, 12/6 December 6, 2006

The SF Police Commission is voting next Wednesday, December 6, about whether to approve surveillance cameras at 16th and Mission Streets.

The City says the cameras are going up because people who live, work, and walk in San Francisco , want them. 
If you don ' t want cameras, please come to the following meeting:

Police Commission Meeting
Wednesday, December 6 at 5:30 p.m.
at San Francisco City Hall,
Room 400, San Francisco, California.

We all want safe communities, but video cameras are just not the solution.

The expanded video surveillance program should be rejected because:

• It is ineffective in reducing crime. Study after study demonstrates that video surveillance cameras do not reduce crime or the fear of crime in the long-run. Crime just moves from one corner to another.
• It threatens privacy and free speech rights, allowing the government to track what you are doing and where you are going.
• It is expensive. The funds proposed for the surveillance cameras could be better spent on more effective crime-reduction measures such as increased foot patrols, community policing, or better lighting.

Please forward this information to others about the meetings and also send an email to the Police Commission at sfpd.commission [at] sfgov.org and let them know you don ' t want cameras.

For more information, please log onto http://www.aclunc.org/issues/technology/say_no_to_video_surveillance.shtml