Mon, 12/15/2008 - 1:55pm — DCblogger
Law Enforcement Looks to Video Surveillance Networks
2008 may have been The Year of the Large-Scale Wireless Video Surveillance System, as several cities and their police departments joined the growing market, while others expanded existing systems.
These systems stream high-resolution video to monitoring stations and police squad cars from cameras strategically located throughout downtown areas or other high-priority, high-crime districts. The cameras can prove valuable to police and prosecutors for capturing and convicting criminals and as a crime deterrent.
Yeah, because I would MUCH rather have a surveillance system than a new library, park, or recreation center. Sheesh.
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Cameras
Depsite some huge opposition from the city council and citizens, the mayor of our city pre-emptively ordered some surveillance cameras for "high-crime" spots for the city, and then went before the city council selling them as "temporary/test units" finally cracking the opposition. Worst yet, he did this after a serial killer was loose during two summers ago, feeding on the fear of that horrible summer. Needless to say that it's been a year-and-a-half, now, and they are still up after a successful propoganda initiative back in September showing that the cameras "worked."
Yeah, "rings of steel" are going up in big cities and small, and there doesn't seem to be much large-scale and organized (or at least vocal) opposition to it. I've always feared seeing American cities doing what London did, and it blows my mind every time I hear a Londoner talk about how their CCTV "isn't such a big deal."
But, we've always been at war with Eastasia...
library? park? recreation center?
theater!