Originally Posted by Frangyomory

Our ladies group had a presentation by the Sumter County sheriff's department and a representative of Village Watch.

Every gate has several cameras installed. Some where you can see and some you cannot. A photo is taken of every vehicle going through. The Village Watch fellow brought many examples of the photos that had been taken on several different days and at a few different gates.

Now, I can't speak to the "manned gates" over on the other side on any of this.

When we had the rash of burglaries here in Tall Trees, they were downloading the cameras every afternoon to see if there were any suspicious persons/vehicles that came through the gates.

The cameras are only good AFTER the fact in the investigation of a crime committed.

IMHO since we have NO security even at the manned gates, we should just open them up and let go of the people who are working the manned gates and save some money. I don't know what good the cameras are since they are only useful AFTER the crime has been committed.

The made up sales pitch that we are a "gated" community is now totally known to be false so it makes no sense to have the darned gates, gate cards or employees.

Anyone who wants to get in right now can do so just by pushing the button and saying they are visiting someone or working on something. Waste of our money.

I would love to hear an opinion on why we should keep funding salaries and technology on this very useless issue.