The eyes of Bryan Police may soon be upon you.

The city of Bryan wants to crack down on crime by placing video cameras in downtown Bryan.

Currently, the city ranks in the top ten for violent crimes per capita for 50,000 to 100,000 thousand residents, a ranking the city wants to remove. They believe surveillance cameras may help them achieve that goal.

"I think they need it down here," Doug Steeley said.

Doug Steeley has been traveling to downtown Bryan to get his hair cut at the City Barber Shop for the last 30 years.

When he's not sitting in the barber's chair, he's outside watching and waiting.

"I see them speeding down this road here way to fast and all that kind of stuff," Steeley said.

Steeley is just one resident who thinks the Bryan Police Department's plan to place cameras throughout the downtown area for surveillance could help cut back on the city's crime.

"There's going to be video cameras, four stationary, two of them pan and tilt and are mobile, and we can pull them out and deploy them somewhere else," Jason James with the Bryan Police Department said.

The cameras would record 24/7 so if something happens downtown, within seconds police could pull up the video and zoom in to the fine details of a person, place, or thing.

The surveillance will allow police to watch, go back and re-watch any event in that area unfold.

"It's going to be an extra set of eyes out there," James said.

But it's that extra set of eyes that is drawing mixed reactions downtown.

"You no longer have privacy you can't do anything without worrying about someone else watching you and that's where the problem is," one area resident said.

"It'll cut down on some robberies and stuff like stealing, breaking into people's cars," another said.

For now, Bryan P.D. says the system will only have someone watching the cameras 24/7 for big events downtown like First Fridays, Texas Reds, and even parades.

Otherwise the cameras will be used when crime happens to help catch criminals faster.

For Doug Steeley, he thinks people just knowing Bryan P.D. is watching could make all the difference.

"Anytime people see police they try and do what's right," Steeley said.

The next phase of department's plan will use the cameras to also help respond to accidents in the area even medical calls.

In the future police say they could also work with businesses around town like Wal-Mart and Target. Police say eventually they will be able to connect into their video networks, so if something happens they will have more video footage.

The $103,000 purchase is up for discussion at Tuesday night's city council meeting. Funding for the project is coming from the Department of Justice and Homeland Security, with additional costs to be approved by the city.