During the last decade, law enforcement has increasingly relied on closed-circuit television surveillance to improve public safety. A growing number of US cities have begun using CCTV public video surveillance as a law enforcement tool to monitor public areas, schools and residential neighborhoods. Video surveillance can work 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year without going to the bathroom, smoking or eating lunch. She doesn't need holidays or maternity leave and rarely gets sick. Surveillance cameras instill fear in people that their actions will be recorded and that there will be consequences. Cameras catch shoplifters and people vandalizing property on a daily basis. The cameras also monitor traffic and catch people speeding in school zones to keep our streets and our children safer