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Health & Fitness

Tackling Newarks Crime

A Newark residents Plan to help curb crime across the board by encouraging residents to help each other

I've taken it upon myself to find a potential solution to Newark's crime woes, as a Resident as I'm sure most of you can relate it's disturbing on many levels to know that our small town is rampant with crime!

It's not just crime in general but specific types of crimes such as Burglary, Home Invasions, and Robberies. Our city leadership have done nothing to tackle this while our Police Department has enacted numerous Neighborhood Watches to help combat these types of crimes.

Meanwhile despite our Police Department's best efforts these crimes and the rate at which they occur has only increased. There are some in our community whom like to pretend like there's nothing wrong at all despite Newark Patch Reports & Nixle Alerts to the contrary.

Then there are those who will point out that increasing Crime is an issue for Jurisdictions all over the Country and not just our small town. While this is true, what are these people implying?

Are they saying that because it's a issue for everyone that we should just sit back and let it happen because it's far too extensive to attempt taking control of? I don't know about you but as a life long Resident even a single instance of such crimes is too much in my hometown!

I've often talked about some of my ideas to help improve certain things in Newark here on patch and one of them is enacting a Public Surveillance System. Now, obviously our city leadership would never go for such a plan because it would require too much of them to implement.

This is where Newark residents come into play!

Newark Residents will serve as Live Feed Operators, if they own their Property they qualify. Each Citizen will setup a Camera on their Business or Residential Property and have it aimed in a strategically positioned direction which captures the essence of life in their neighborhoods.

These Cameras will be Live Streaming over the Internet and all Linked to a Surveillance Network. Newark Police will also get unlimited Access to these Live Feeds.

A lot of Newark residents already have broadband Internet Services, and some type of Camera or Webcam. Participating would be as simple as Connecting their Cameras to their Computers, and Live Streaming to any number of free online services.

Those who already meet the requirements won't pay any out of Pocket Expenses, meanwhile they will be helping each other to secure their neighborhoods & property.

Early next week I'll be posting a follow up to this entry prior to deploying my Plan and putting it into action. More details will be released at that time.

So what do you think? Does Newark's crime woes warrant Public Surveillance or are you just anti Cameras? Voice it!

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