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"Another Central Coast city has installed surveillance cameras around town.Hollister is the second city to install the controversial cameras within the last month.\u201CWe can\u2019t have an officer standing in every corner but if we have these cameras up they\u2019re an independent witness as to what happened and it\u2019s a tool we can use in the future to solve crimes or find out what really happened in certain situations,\u201D police Capt. Carlos Reynoso said.\u00A0VIDEO: Cameras installed in downtown HollisterReynoso said roughly three dozen cameras have been installed in strategic points around the city, including a park where drug activity is on the rise.\u201CThere are studies that show where cameras go up crime does go down. The criminal element that is aware of the cameras don\u2019t want to be captured. They know that will lead to their conviction if their crime is captured on tape,\u201D Reynoso said.Most of the cameras are located in the downtown area which hosts the annual Fourth of July biker rally. This year\u2019s rally is expected to draw more than 100,000 people during the three-day weekend. The rally and the large presence of biker gangs was the reason the cameras were approved, despite some concerns that they\u2019re an invasion of privacy.\u201CI can see both sides to the story. But in all reality, when you (are) out in public, you don\u2019t have an expectation of privacy, so if the government decides to videotape you in public there\u2019s no big difference between that and someone walking down the street and seeing what you doing. So if you\u2019re not doing anything wrong, then it shouldn\u2019t be an issue,\u201D said Hollister resident Katherine Becerra.Police said the cameras are set up only on city-owned property and will not be monitored around the clock. The video captured by the cameras will only be reviewed when a crime has occurred, officials said. However, during large events, such as the biker rally, police will be monitoring live feeds from the cameras.The cameras cost Hollister taxpayers roughly $300,000. The city of Seaside recently installed several cameras on a trial basis, but police eventually hope to install 22 cameras around the city."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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