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Two dozen cameras capable of reading license plates may soon be in operation at locations selected by the police department across the City of Niagara Falls. City council members have been asked by Mayor Robert Restaino’s administration to consider approval of a $300,100 grant-funded contract with SHI International Corp., a New Jersey company that offers surveillance equipment to municipalities in partnership with another firm, Flock Safety. The proposed agreement is on the agenda for consideration by city lawmakers during today’s council meeting. Under the proposed contract, the city would pay SHI International Corp. $12,100 to install 24 new, outdoor, solar-powered...

Taliban's police force proudly shows off its newly-acquired network of 90,000 CCTV cameras - used to watch over the day-to-day lives of millions of people. "We monitor the entire city of Kabul from here," says Khalid Zadran, a spokesperson for the Taliban police chief, pointing to one of the screens. The authorities say such surveillance will help fight crime, but critics fear it will be used to clamp down on dissent and to monitor the strict morality code enforced by the Islamist Taliban government under their interpretation of Sharia law. The BBC are the first international journalists allowed to see...

Traffic cameras have been the bane of Britons for many a year now — but our neighbors across the pond have recently upped the battle, and the technology is coming over to America, as well. According to a Dec. 21 report from NBC News, police departments in the United States have become the latest to use an AI-powered traffic camera system made by an Australian company named Acusensus. The system, called “Heads Up,” doesn’t just check speed or running traffic lights like in other locales. Instead, they look for violations, like failure to wear a seat belt or texting while...

It was a shock to see the Insurrectum in the Hart Senate Building in which an aide to Senator Ben Cardin, Aidan, got his Maese Czeropskied. However, that video was recorded by the Mounter filming Aidan, the Mountee.So what about the official surveillance cameras which are all over the buildings on Capitol Hill? Did they not happen to be on in that chamber? If so, what did the Capitol Hill police do with that recording of an Insurrectum? Did they just avoid taking any action because the Insurrectum involved the aide to a Democrat Senator?

CHICAGO (AP) -- When the body of Chicago's school board president was found partially submerged in a river last fall, a bullet wound to the head, cameras helped prove it was a suicide. Friends had speculated someone forced Michael Scott to drive to the river before shooting him - and maybe even wrapped his fingers around the trigger. But within days, police recreated Scott's 20-minute drive through the city using high-tech equipment that singled out his car on a succession of surveillance cameras, handing the image from camera to camera. The video didn't capture Scott's final moments, but it helped...

Note: The following text is a quote: Federal Grand Jury Returns Indictment on Internet Bomb Threats Hammond, IN—The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Indiana announced that a three-count indictment was returned against Ashton Lundeby for his role in Internet bomb and related threats directed to Purdue University, Indiana University/Purdue University at Fort Wayne, Ind., and numerous other educational institutions throughout the country. Lundeby, 16, of Oxford, N.C., was arrested by the FBI at his home in Oxford on March 6, 2009. A federal search warrant was also executed at that time. Lundeby was arrested pursuant to a...

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SAN ANTONIO, Texasm(AP) -- Texas citizens and law enforcement officials will be able to monitor video footage of some of the most isolated and dangerous stretches of the Texas-Mexico border under a border security plan announced Thursday by Gov. Rick Perry. "With the voluntary participation of private land owners, the state will begin posting hundreds of surveillance cameras along criminal hotspots and common routes used to enter this country," Perry said. The effort is part of a border security initiative that Perry launched Thursday, saying the state must step up efforts in response to inactivity by the federal government. The...

CHICAGO, Sept. 20 - A highly advanced system of video surveillance that Chicago officials plan to install by 2006 will make people here some of the most closely observed in the world. Mayor Richard M. Daley says it will also make them much safer. "Cameras are the equivalent of hundreds of sets of eyes," Mr. Daley said when he unveiled the new project this month. "They're the next best thing to having police officers stationed at every potential trouble spot." Police specialists here can already monitor live footage from about 2,000 surveillance cameras around the city, so the addition of...

Costs of the Surveillance State by Erich Mattei Police departments around the nation have begun utilizing high-tech video surveillance in their fight against crime, as the private sector has for many years. Officials in New Orleans recently announced that by October the city plans to have installed 100 of these surveillance cameras within its limits. The plan, which will eventually see the installation of 1,000 cameras throughout the city, is part of an effort to further combat crime in certain "hot spots."[1] New Orleans Police Department spokesman Sgt. Paul Accardo said that in July alone suspects in two separate slayings...