Kudos and mahalo to Mayor Rick Blangiardi for the new Chinatown surveillance cameras (“City installs new surveillance cameras,” Star-Advertiser, Sept. 26).
Finally, after years of neglect and lack of maintenance, residents and businesses can feel safer. Past administrations, beginning with Jeremy Harris, who promoted the first cameras, did not maintain the cameras. I trust Blangiardi will take a different path.
Unfortunately the ACLU’s Jongwook Kim doesn’t get it. This is what those of us living with crime in Chinatown, who have been mugged at noon on a workday by the police substation, who are afraid to leave their homes at night, have been waiting for.
It is time the law-abiding taxpayers get this protection so they can live life. For us it is not an invasion of privacy, but freedom. Free to leave our homes knowing there is a 24/7 police presence, a deterrence to the criminals and others who want to harm us.
Lynne Matusow
Chinatown
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