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Dallas Police To Install Surveillance Cameras On Cedar Springs Strip (& other LGBT patronized areas)
Dallas plans to install police surveillance cameras this fall at Cedar Springs Road and Throckmorton Street, in addition to nine other locations in the Oak Lawn area, according to a memo to council members from City Manager A.C. Gonzalez.
The cameras are among 90 scheduled to be added citywide in Targeted Area Action Grids, or TAAGs, which are Dallas’ 27 worst crime hotspots. The Wycliff Lemmon TAAG, a roughly one-square-mile sector that encompasses the Cedar Springs strip, climbed as high as No. 2 on the list for most violent offenses in 2009. However, its ranking among the hotspots has steadily declined since then, and it currently sits at No. 14 for 2015.
The Cedar Springs strip has been the site of several offenses, including this murder, in which police investigations may have been aided by surveillance footage. However, some have raised privacy concerns about surveillance cameras on the strip — given the history of police raiding gay bars and writing down license plate numbers of those who patronized them.
Surveillance cameras are also scheduled to be installed at Oak Lawn Avenue and Cedar Springs Road, Lemmon and Wycliff avenues, Lemmon and Douglas avenues, Lemmon and Oak Lawn avenues, Rawlings Street and Oak Lawn Avenue, Maple and Wycliff avenues, Maple Avenue and Kings Road, Maple Avenue and Lucas Drive, and Maple and Oak Lawn avenues.
The cameras are among 90 scheduled to be added citywide in Targeted Area Action Grids, or TAAGs, which are Dallas’ 27 worst crime hotspots. The Wycliff Lemmon TAAG, a roughly one-square-mile sector that encompasses the Cedar Springs strip, climbed as high as No. 2 on the list for most violent offenses in 2009. However, its ranking among the hotspots has steadily declined since then, and it currently sits at No. 14 for 2015.
The Cedar Springs strip has been the site of several offenses, including this murder, in which police investigations may have been aided by surveillance footage. However, some have raised privacy concerns about surveillance cameras on the strip — given the history of police raiding gay bars and writing down license plate numbers of those who patronized them.
Surveillance cameras are also scheduled to be installed at Oak Lawn Avenue and Cedar Springs Road, Lemmon and Wycliff avenues, Lemmon and Douglas avenues, Lemmon and Oak Lawn avenues, Rawlings Street and Oak Lawn Avenue, Maple and Wycliff avenues, Maple Avenue and Kings Road, Maple Avenue and Lucas Drive, and Maple and Oak Lawn avenues.
http://www.lonestarq.com/dallas-police-to-install-surveillance-cameras-on-cedar-springs-strip/