Last week, KTRK-13’s Deborah Wrigley took a look at Metro’s increasing reliance upon crime-fighting-by-camera, and while the piece isn’t terribly skeptical of Metro’s approach, there are a couple of tidbits that expose some of the inherent problems:
“If somebody reported someone was messing with this car, I could zoom into it and look at the license plate,” [Metro police officer David]Hall said.
That’ll scare the bad guys!
METRO is still adapting to a new way of policing. It’s caught some crimes in the act, helped investigate others after the fact, but in law enforcement and anti-terrorism says the agency’s police chief, there’s no substitute for a real pair of eyes and a badge.
And that’s the bottom line. Metro’s bumbling police chief knows it, but he still pulled security guards out of the Park and Rides anyway, thereby turning them into Park and Pillages.
