Several hundred Ring doorbells are now up-and-running in East Baltimore’s Coldstream-Homestead-Montebello neighborhood, the result of an initiative by neighborhood and state leaders.
The cameras were installed for more than 250 neighbors in the East Baltimore neighborhood.
“It’ll be more security for the community,” noted CHM resident Leonard Whichard to WMAR.
Whichard is the last neighbor to receive a camera in this wave of additions.
“When I go out, I can have the app on my phone and see what’s going on,” added Whichard at a media conference minutes later.
State funding through the Maryland Department of Housing and Community Development’s Community Health and Safety Works program. According to a news release, it provides “grants to local governments and nonprofits to implement crime prevention strategies through physical improvements, operational activities, and community vigilance and maintenance.”
“If anything else, it’s definitely going to help with the crime in this community,” Melvin Scott Jr., with local Mustang Electric, told WMAR.