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Video cameras for bars?
City councillor Fred Bass says council may have to consider forcing all bars to install video cameras to help prevent a recurrence of the weekend shootings.
"We tape record people in all kinds of circumstances, certainly when they go to get money at a cash machine," he says. "So it makes some sense to me that we take a look at that."
The chair of BARWATCH ? which represents downtown club owners ? agrees, saying he doesn't think cameras would scare away customers.
"I think a greater deterrent is people getting killed," says John Teti. "You know, a great many people don't want to go to bars because they think they're unsafe."
Teti also thinks Vancouver should consider the system used in Phoenix, Arizona where patrons must swipe an ID card before entering a bar or club.