Posted on 05/26/2018 1:33:10 PM PDT by Theoria
Armed with advanced gadgets and mapping, officers can get to crime scenes “in time to see the guy still shooting.” But what does it mean for residents’ privacy?
Just after 3 a.m. on May 4, a police officer received an alert that gunshots had been fired near an alley in a neighborhood known as the Back of the Yards.
The alert came from a hidden street sensor called a ShotSpotter, and the officer was able to pull up a map of nearby police cameras and review the video. Without leaving a room the size of a walk-in closet, he watched a man fire seven times, striking another man, who turned out to be a federal agent, in the face.
Switching from one high-definition camera to the next, the officer tracked the gunman as he fled. Unlike the grainy security videos of old, the picture quality from the cameras, which are equipped with night vision technology, was so pristine that the officer was able to watch the man wipe sweat off his face.
The tiny rooms have a large-sounding name, Strategic Decision Support Centers, and provide a peek into what could be the future of urban American policing — if they do not run afoul of American notions of privacy. They can deliver the license plate of every passing vehicle, a photo of every area resident with an arrest record, gang boundaries, 911 reports and more, right to a patrol officer’s cellphone.
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No. Not when the cops and judges don’t bother arresting gangstas and sentencing them to the max.
Graft is not a “possibility” it is a done deal. The kick backs on 30,000 cameras can’t be calculated. Mayor Rahm and his boys can’t do a deal with out graft and corruption.
Saying chicago has a crime problem is racist. /s
All it takes is the will to take crime seriously. Democrats have the will to do the opposite. They’ll get the cameras and use them against law abiding citizens.
Ask London. Supposedly every inch of London is now on camera.
These cameras would sooner or later be used to document where we go, what church and other organizations we partake in, who we see, and just about every other aspect of our movements and personal life.
Does she attend the PTA?
Did he go to a Republican meeting?
Did he go to church this week?
Is there anything we can blackmail him with?
Hillary Clinton couldn’t ask for more.
Exactly! That book...
IMO, the thugs will most likely ‘shoot’ then out of operation.
Unfortunately, those days are gone.
We now live under surveillance that exceeds what Orwell imagined, but nobody seems to care.
300,000 CCW would probably help more. Reference the OK story where a guy opened fire and two CCW customers killed him.
Trying to become England....
It doesn’t work there either.
It is “the Chicago Way.” This should not surprise anyone familiar with the city’s history. Politics began in the bars and the leaders were the biggest gamblers and brothel owners in the city.
The absolute worst thing about this city is the control of politics by The Machine the descendant of those earlier bosses.
There is no turning back. I just hope they don’t camera Stop Signs, then I would be indigent.
It’s not just the surveillance, although I suppose the electronic paper trail is of course surveillance, but I never expected the electronic paper trail to be what it is now. Orwell would certainly have seen it Orwellian. My view when I read the book was a camera every ten feet.
You and a lot of others.
I don’t think the traffic intersection control cams played out, so there may never be more of them for that kind of traffic control.
We're pretty much there. Walk around any medium to big city in this country and you're under video surveillance. Look around at most intersections and you'll see cameras too.As for your internet viewing history, emails, cell phone conversations, online purchases, it's all permanently recorded and stored. IMO we're way beyond anything that Orwell could have even imagined.
So far this system is only being by the police for solving crimes; yet its mere presence is a threat to liberty. It's ability to be delivered on a sliver platter to any tyrant who gains power in this country should be of concern to us all. Yet it's not.
I agree.
If you really want to view a brain teaser of a concept, I urge you to view “Anon” on Netflix.
It really does take the human tech experience about as far as it can go as long as we’re still functioning in a reality setting, but with super enhanced information age gone off the charts.
I believe it’s a Netflix in-house production. It may or may not take folks more than one viewing to fully grasp what’s going on fully.
There were scenes I backed up and watched again to make sure I was taking it all in.
I’m not pushing this for production value, although it’s very acceptable on that level. I’m just pushing it to expose the concept that is presented in the movie.
I cancelled last week because of Obama, but I might have a day or two left in my billing period . If I do, I'll watch it, if not I'll have to take your word for it.
While I don’t like what some companies do, I’m not going to cut my nose off to spite my face.
If others think they need to, that’s fine with me. I’m not critical of it.
My lifeline is Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon.com. I’m sure each of them does stuff I really really don’t like. Should I cancel them all?
Again, not trying to be critical of your decision. I understand.
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