"Delray Beach to install cameras throughout city in crime-fighting program"

Sun Sentinel reporter Lois Solomon has this interesting news; here is an excerpt:

     Atlantic Avenue revelers, take note: Delray Beach has begun installing security cameras throughout the city as part of a crime-prevention program pinpointing key sites often connected with illegal activities.
     The entertainment district that radiates from Atlantic Avenue, along with parking garages, the beach, City Hall and recreation centers: All will become part of a closed-circuit surveillance system that hooks up to a monitored room in the police department, supervised by a detective checking for misdeeds.
     "If someone's wallet is stolen, we can go back and look at where it happened," said Capt. Tom Mitchell of the police department. "This is not Big Brother; it's the wave of the future. Technology is the way to reduce crime now."