Posted on 12/26/2013 12:58:12 PM PST by a fool in paradise
Police surveillance of downtown Houston will expand with the addition of 180 new cameras.
The installation of the cameras means police will have nearly 1,000 surveillance feeds available to them. Most cameras are pointed on public areas around downtown, stadiums and the theater district.
Police Chief Charles McClelland says Houston has more critical infrastructure than New York City and must rely on video to provide necessary police coverage...
Those are some expensive cameras
$18M could have employed some full time cops
Possibly, but the cameras will keep on looking where they are pointed.
Cops would be deployed to bust dangerous speeding commuters
or criminals who refuse to wear seat belts. Hard core offenders.
$18M could have employed some full time cops
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True but who needs cops when virtually everyone is under constant video surveillance?
Its amazing how docile the public really is.
What great reality TV! /s
Cameras do NOT make people safer. They make it easier to prosecute criminals after the fact.
Even with the Boston bombing manhunt, the videos were NOT released in a timely manner.
And those so-called moderate muslims who recognized the persons of interest “denied the obvious” and kept their information to themselves.
Let alone, the governent figures who’d already previously INTERVIEWED the persons of interest didn’t raise the red flag that these were known idividuals.
Cameras should be pointed farther South. At the border.
And it’s a lot better if your dog gets shot by the cameras.
Who will watch the watchers?
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We have lots of watchers, listeners and interceptors in this country and nobody seems to be monitoring them. Just saying.
Cameras should be pointed farther South. At the border.
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Exactly. Citizens are under more surveillance than illegal entrants and other law breakers.
You forgot failing to signal a turn ;)
In my case, DWI taskforce cops were running their ticket racket up the street (4 squad cars at least) while I was getting mugged at gun point.
Even yelling for police afterwards (when the attackers drove off) didn’t turn their heads.
The first cop I approached got the hell out of there in the opposite direction without ever taking down my statement.
The next one took my report, gave me a case number, and never followed up.
The DWI taskforce (that was there every weekend for months before that) was gone the following night/months.
My event never appeared in any of the online maps of reported crime in my neighborhood.
I contacted the business who’s parking lot I was robbed in, but they denied there was any security camera footage.
Cops would be deployed to bust dangerous speeding commuters
or criminals who refuse to wear seat belts. Hard core offenders.
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LOL. Good post.
On a more serious note, I believe cops now have camers mounted on the rear of their cars to constantly capture license plate numbers that are fed into a database with date/time stamps. Frightening stuff.
Yet another way in which Americans have lost their privacy under the ‘leadership’ of liberal democRATs.
If they want to prevent crime, they should put security cameras in the city jail’s holding cell to capture officers putting on the black gloves to beat those who have not even been formally charged.
City persons acknowledge the beating go on. It is a multimillion dollar lawsuit the city will one day lose.
Even yelling for police afterwards (when the attackers drove off) didn’t turn their heads. The first cop I approached got the hell out of there in the opposite direction without ever taking down my statement. The next one took my report, gave me a case number, and never followed up.
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You’re lucky they didn’t give you a sobriety or breathalizer test. Cops never follow up. Never. Not even when you point them directly to the perpetrator(s).
bump
it is true
I have always thought we needed to separate traffic enforcement from regular police.
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