Security cameras coming to Brooklyn to help investigate local crimes
BP Adams Funds Pilot Program ‘Operation Safe Shopper’
Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams on Tuesday unveiled Operation Safe Shopper, a partnership between local civic organizations and the NYPD in which he has funded the deployment of security cameras in neighborhoods across Brooklyn to assist with the investigation of local crimes.
Through this pilot program, Adams has allocated $2,500 each in discretionary funds to the Alliance for Coney Island, Crown Heights Jewish Community Council, Myrtle Avenue Revitalization Project Local Development Corporation (LDC) in Clinton Hill and Fort Greene, Pitkin Avenue Business Improvement District (BID) in Brownsville, as well as the Park Slope Fifth Avenue BID. These grants have been designated toward the purchase of security camera technology that will monitor street activity.
Adams showcased some of the new equipment at Mr Clean It, a dry cleaning business in Crown Heights, and discussed the impact of the new program to advance safety along the borough’s commercial corridors.