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200
March
in
Protest
of
Surveillance
Cameras
in
Washington
Square
Park
2/6/98
On February 1, 200 New York City residents, angered over Mayor Giuliani's installation of surveillance cameras in Washington Square, marched on the venerable park, centerpiece of New York's fabled Greenwich Village, to voice their concerns. Surveillance cameras are already in use in some public housing projects in the city, and Mayor Giuliani, citing a decrease in crime in areas where the cameras have been installed, says the city plans to expand the program. "We are at a point where we now have many more requests for cameras than we have cameras, or than we're ready yet to do, because we want to make sure we're doing this in a careful way" Giuliani told the New York Times. Speakers at the rally, however, had serious concerns. Tonya D. McClary, director of research at the NAACP legal defense fund, said, "once you give them the O.K. to do this, they will take it and run with it. We've pretty much allowed them a green light to put these cameras in parks, public schools, in the subway system and in city buses. Soon, none of us will have a place where we can sit back and be ourselves." The protest was organized by the New York Civil Liberties Union.
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