Closed Circuit Television Surveillance of Public Space in Vancouver: A Brief Overview of Evidence from the UK and Arguments About its Use in the Downtown Eastside

Pamphlet created by the Carnegie Community Action Project (CCAP) in 1999 when the Vancouver Police Department was in the midst of proposing the use of video surveillance in the Downtown Eastside in order to fight crime. The CCAP began research and analysis of these surveillance systems, and produced this pamphlet, which gives an overview of the ineffectiveness of these systems in the UK. The pamphlet argues that installation of closed circuit television surveillance will do nothing to ameliorate conditions of poverty in the DTES. Rather, it will act as a tool that further promotes the displacement and social exclusion of people in the Downtown Eastside.