(WBBM NEWSRADIO) -- The head of a Near West Side community group is calling for more tax dollars to be spent on police surveillance cameras in the area.
Roger Romanelli, who heads the Fulton Market Association, says recent shootings in his area, including one outside Aberdeen Tap that sent restaurant patrons ducking for cover, show the need for better security.
More police cameras could provide that, he says, and Tax Increment Financing money could pay for them.
Romanelli is calling for the city to use $5 million in TIF money to install 200 more police cameras in the Near West and West sides.
Romanelli says two local aldermen, Jason Ervin and Walter Burnett, have suggested TIF funds can’t be used that way. They deny saying that. Both stress it’s the police who decide where cameras are needed.
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