NEW YORK, NY September 18, 2009 —Two public housing developments are about to get surveillance cameras installed at 14 buildings. Tenants at the Tilden and Brownsville Houses in Brooklyn say crime in their developments is getting out of control. Karrie Scarborough lives at the Brownsville Houses and says in the last month, two women have been shot.

SCARBOROUGH: Your kids, you can't let your kids come outside and play at all by themselves. And you can't allow them to be more than 30 feet away from you because you're afraid that any minute, they will start shooting. It's that terrible.

A combination of federal and local funds will pay for the cameras. The Public Housing Authority says so far it's installed 5600 cameras at 80 of its developments. There are 338 in all.

The cameras are not monitored but the NYPD says recently, at other developments, a robbery suspect and someone vandalizing the building were caught on tape and arrested.