Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2-1-2006
Keywords
closed circuit television, mass transit, transportation security, video surveillance
Abstract
Closed circuit television video (CCTV) surveillance systems need to be introduced or enhanced in the public areas within United States’ mass transit systems. London’s extensive system was used very successfully in the investigation of the July 2005 terrorist attacks on its subway and bus systems. That effective investigatory use of CCTV is very likely to be a significant deterrence to future terrorist activities on London mass transit. The United States must be prepared in the event of similar attacks on its soil. As roughly twenty times more people travel by mass transit than by air, it is time for this nation’s transportation security focus to shift to mass transit, and to use CCTV widely in public mass transit systems.
Publication Citation
2006 Law Enforcement Executive Forum 151
Disciplines
Law | National Security Law
Digital Commons Citation
Greenberger, Michael, "The Need for Closed Circuit Television in Mass Transit Systems" (2006). Faculty Scholarship. 64.
https://digitalcommons.law.umaryland.edu/fac_pubs/64
Comments
With permission of the publisher.