FISHTOWN - With all the crime spilling across Philadelphia, community members are coming together to provide an important tool – surveillance."They approached us and asked if we want to add more cameras.
It was a no-brainer. It was like, ‘Why not?’" said Stefani Lee Ryan, General Manager of Joe's Steaks.Gone are the days of fuzzy black and white surveillance footage, at least in several parts of Fishtown where the Fishtown Business Improvement District has taken advantage of the city’s business security camera program.Marc Collazzo is the Executive Director and he saw an opportunity to bolster safety in the area, adding more than 60 cameras to several intersections in Fishtown."We get half reimbursement of our camera installations.
We picked designated intersections, the busy ones, and through permission of the property owner, we installed the highest quality security cameras," Collazzo stated.The cameras are state-of-the-art and include 4K quality and full-color night vision.
They’re also capable of capturing license plates.The cameras have already proven helpful to police in a homicide case at Cecil B.