Already being utilized in Miami, the wireless devices are scheduled to come to the city of Fort Lauderdale along Sistrunk Boulevard, at the beach, and in Flagler Village. They are also planned to come to Hollywood, FL.

The cameras are planned in the Central Broward unincorporated zone sites of Franklin Park, Roosevelt Gardens, Washington Park and Boulevard Gardens, stretching from Broward Boulevard to 16 blocks north of Sunrise Boulevard, and from Northwest 24th Avenue to Northwest 31st.

The area, plagued by poverty, has seen unemployment rates as high as 44 percent but Broward Sheriff Scott Israel says crime is down.

"It's great to say crime is down," he said, "but you say that to the victims of crimes today, they're happy crime is down, but they were the victims of a crime."

Farther west, another unincorporated neighborhood, Broadview Park, also is expected to be fitted with surveillance cameras.

BSO Capt. Andrew Dunbar purposed the cameras at a county meeting citing their 'success' in other areas like Lauderdale Lakes where 12 cameras along the C-13 spy on Vincent Torres Memorial Park, the Hawaiian Gardens residential complex and other areas.

Dunbar has proposed 13 WildFire brand high-definition, wireless cameras in the central unincorporated area, and eight in Broadview, placed at entry and exit points to the neighborhoods.