Paterson Getting New Cameras To Help With Diminished Police Force
PATERSON, NJ (WCBS 880) - Since 80 percent of Paterson falls within an Urban Enterprise Zone, the city is using UEZ grant money to buy over 50 new surveillance cameras to put up around town.
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It's great timing with a quarter of the police force just laid off.
"We would rather have used the money to put police officers back on the job - instead of the cameras - but it doesn't work that way," says City Council president Aslon Goow, Sr. "Anything that's just more eyes and ears is better to have than not to have."
Goow says this will add on to the almost 50 cameras currently up.
"We have a camera room that can immediately zoom to that area and start being the eyes and ears for what's going on before a unit can get there," he says.
Goow says the new eyes in the sky should be up by summer.
