The surveillance camera plays an important role in crime prevention by warning the criminal that his illegal activity will be filmed by cameras. The police can therefore easily arrest them and bring them to justice. This helps provide useful evidence for trials and facilitates prosecutions. The main benefit of using surveillance cameras is to protect property from theft and vandalism and ensure public safety. The use of surveillance cameras in public places is very important, the cameras are capable of taking photos from a distance and this will help in investigating illegal activities such as theft, kidnapping, car accident, murder and drug trafficking. Currently in New York, the FBI has found ample evidence that terrorists may be planning an attack, particularly on the subway and in crowded locations. New York City is spending millions of dollars on security cameras to track terrorist activity throughout the city. In Lower Manhattan alone, 3,000 cameras monitor the entire area. People will feel safer from terrorist attacks such as bombings, shootings and other violent crimes. Offenders may not see the camera, but the camera will record their action. The other criminal or terrorist will learn that even though there are no police, security can see everything he does through the camera. They could therefore act before the crime occurs. I completely agree that surveillance should be implemented in public and commercial places, it cannot eliminate crimes but it will reduce crimes. In The New York Times, author Kareem Fahim wrote an article titled “Surveillance Will Expand to Midtown.” ", Mayor Says," In 2009, New York City Mayor Michael Bloom Berg reported that Homeland Security contributed $24 million to expand surveillance camera from Lower Manhattan to Midtown Manhattan. New advanced technology cameras have the ability to detect weapons through cameras. Therefore, the titles will be able to protect important places located in that particular area such as the Grand Central Terminal, the Empire State Building and the United Nations. The police department can observe the public through a massive 40-foot video screen. Additionally, the passage “Surveillance Cameras and the Times Square Bombing” by William Saletan shows that surveillance cameras cannot eliminate crime, but they can reduce it. On May 1, 2010, a Pakistani/American citizen named Faisal Shahzad set off a car bomb in Times Square..