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Influences: BILLION DOLLAR SURVEILLANCE SYSTEMS HAVE BEEN PUT UP ALL OVER AMERICAN CITIES.....THE POLICE ARE LOOKING AT THE CRIMINAL ACTIVITIES OF CITIZENS VIA SPYING CAMERAS. THE REASON NO INCRIMINATING VIDEO EVIDENCE IS SHOWN IN COURT BECAUSE IT IS A GROSS VIOLATION OF OUR CIVIL RIGHTS AND IT HAS ALL BEEN ORCHESTRATED BEHIND THE MASK OF HOMELAND SECURITY AND "TERRORISM" WHICH WE KNOW IS ALL FABRICATED OR OVERATED. THESE ARTICLES ARE ALL FROM 2004.READ BETWEEN THE LINES.IMAGINE HOW MUCH HAS BEEN ADDED AND UPDATED IN 4 YEARS. NOT ONLY THAT BUT PROJECTORS HAVE BEEN ADDED INTO THE MIX. WHAT FOR? I DONT KNOW OUR GOVERNMENT TESTS WIERD SHIT OUT ON US UNKNOWGLY ALL THE TIME HISTORICALLY.JUST LOOK AROUND YOURSELVES MORE OFTEN NOTICE HOW HOLLYWOOD LIGHTING HAS APPEARED EVERYWHERE.FURTHERMORE THESE LIGHTS DIM AND BRIGHTEN AS IT FOCUSES IN ON A TARGET.THE CAMERAS ARE USUALLY NEAR OR INSIDE THE LIGHT FIXTURES. The citywide cameras are a hugely ambitious plan to fight crime and keep the city safe from terrorists, a security net unprecedented in its size and scope anywhere in the world.The city's top public safety team joined Mayor Daley Thursday to launch a massive plan to integrate over 2,000 city security cameras.This is how it would work: A caller reports a robbery on a CTA platform and a 9-1-1 dispatcher would see a map of the location and be able to call up an image of the scene from a nearby CTA security camera and relay a description to police. The operator also could use other cameras in the area to track an offender's movement.“The goal is to use all the surveillance tools available and then to give that information to the police or fire where it can be acted on the street,” said Ron Huberman with the Office of Emergency Management.As a terror fighting tool, the system would alert an elite group of 9-1-1 operators to unusual activity in parking lots, stairwells or highways -- any place a city agency has a camera. In addition, private building owners, including apartments and businesses, could pay a fee to add their security cameras to the system.The city also plans to add 250 cameras in high crime or high security areas. The system could handle an unlimited number of private sector cameras, if businesses choose to participate.The $5.1 million cost would be covered by a homeland security grant, and the system would be fully operational in spring 2006.Mayor Daley defended the plan against critics who say the system smacks of ''big brother'' and would infringe on civil liberties.“This is safety issue,” Daley said. “We’re not in your home or private business.” He said the cameras in the system would only be in public areas, such as sidewalks, alleys and public buildings.At first blush, legal experts don't see any constitutional problems with Chicago’s plan. The city studied similar setups in London and Las Vegas, but this is clearly much larger.Chicago's network, combined with the private sector video surveillance, would create an integrated security web of literally tens of thousands of cameras. THis was in 2004...........Some critics have said the city's use of surveillance cameras is eerily similar to tactics employed by governments that control every aspect of people's lives in George Orwell's "1984.""We question whether cameras provide the kind of security boost they credit to them," said Ed Yohnka, Chicago spokesman for the American Civil Liberties Union. He called for a dialogue on "whether the public thinks these cameras are appropriate."He cited a 2003 ACLU report that concluded a "dark potential" lurks in proliferating monitoring systems. "If we do not take steps to control and regulate surveillance to bring it into conformity with our values, we will find ourselves being tracked, analyzed, profiled and flagged in our daily lives to a degree we can scarcely imagine today," the report stated.Huberman said the city is keenly aware of the Orwellian angst."The city is always concerned about not having the perception that the city is acting as Big Brother," he said. "These cameras always are strictly pointed only in the public way. So we're looking at the streets, alleys, sidewalks and open park space."The individuals who view these cameras have all gone through 1st and 4th Amendment training," he added. "Our protocols are very strict. We watch this very, very carefully to ensure, going forward, that we are focusing these cameras purely on what we need them for, which is traffic and public safety."He also said the city has seen a "really dramatic improvement and statistical reductions in crime in areas where these cameras have been deployed." Some critics, however, have argued that the presence of cameras just pushes crime to new areas.Use of surveillance cameras to detect crime, terrorism and traffic jams is a growing trend worldwide, with an extensive system in London. Cook County is using a $34 million federal homeland security grant for a new system that in part gives public safety officials greater video surveillance abilities.Biological, chemical and radiological sensors designed to warn the city of a terrorist attack before it's visible or results in illness also will be installed, Huberman added. Some already exist, but the additions and tie-in to an "incredibly powerful grid" will greatly improve the city's capabilities, he said.Huberman declined to identify the type of sensors or the numbers of new cameras and sensors that will be installed. "We never want a would-be terrorist or would-be criminal to be able to figure out how to reverse-engineer, or figure out our system, and then try to defeat it," he said.Announcement of the Homeland Security Grid came a day after Daley proposed to the City Council a $53 million settlement with RCN, which failed to live up to its city franchise agreement by not expanding its services. RCN emerged from bankruptcy in December.To satisfy the settlement, RCN will provide to the city 388 miles of underground fiber-optic cables for 75 years, mostly along the city's lakefront, said Norma Reyes, commissioner of consumer services. That cable is valued at $31 million, she said.RCN, which has pledged to maintain that cable for the agreement's duration, is expected to spend $17.5 million to maintain and upgrade that cable over the next five years, Reyes said. RCN also will make a $4.5 million payment to the city's general fund and, beyond the settlement amount, a $2 million payment to Chicago Access Network Television.The new cable will augment about 600 miles owned by the city and sister agencies. The city cable all will be linked before the new cable is connected, Huberman said.To add new cameras and link the entire system over the next 18 months, the city will spend about $5 million it obtained through federal homeland security grants, Huberman said."One of the areas that the RCN fiber agreement has given us is great penetration along the Chicago lakefront," he said. "This is a very significant increase of cameras along the Chicago lakefront and along Lake Shore Drive."Posted 12/2/2004 4:55 AMBALTIMORE (AP) — The city's network of 24-hour surveillance cameras monitoring the Inner Harbor will be expanded to cover three high-crime areas and the Canton waterfront, officials said Wednesday.The cameras are part of a regional homeland security initiative announced in June. They eventually will be part of a surveillance network spanning five counties and stretching from the Inner Harbor to the Bay Bridge.The $3 million addition that the city Board of Estimates announced Wednesday is aimed more at criminals than at terrorists and is being financed mostly by proceeds seized from drug dealers and not by homeland security grants.But when the patchwork of cameras and monitoring rooms is linked, the proposed Baltimore regional system could be one of the most extensive surveillance systems in the nation, according to officials at the Electronic Privacy Information Center.The American Civil Liberties Union opposes the Baltimore network, saying the camera system infringes on privacy rights and is ineffective in fighting crime or terrorism."Americans have a real strong sense of privacy rights and are really offended by efforts to breach those rights," said Stacey Mink, a spokeswoman for ACLU of Maryland. "The money would be better spent on police on the streets."City officials say the cameras will monitor only public spaces.Once the terms of a deal are negotiated, Tele-Tector of Maryland will install 74 cameras that will provide 24-hour surveillance in three high-crime neighborhoods. Each system will be monitored by light-duty officers and community volunteers at police districts. A separate contract needs to be negotiated for the Canton camera system."We're talking about 20 square blocks that account for 6% of the total violent crime in the city," acting Police Commissioner Leonard D. Hamm said.The Downtown Partnership's network of 80 cameras, which are reviewed periodically but not monitored, led to a 25% reduction in crime from 2001 to 2002, the most recent years that data were available, spokesman Mike Evitts said.Community activist Naomi Hines said she welcomes the cameras in her Park Heights neighborhood, which she said is overrun by drug dealers."They might just go on the side streets to deal," said Hines, who has lived in the area for 33 years. "You run them from one place, and they go to another place."But, she added, "It's worth trying."In June, the city announced that it was building a network of about 80 cameras in downtown's west side and in the Inner Harbor that would be able to connect to the state's system of closed-circuit cameras that monitor highways. Eventually, Anne Arundel, Baltimore, Carroll, Harford and Howard counties and Annapolis would plug their systems into the city's hub.ENDPhiladelphia police will see how Chicago uses video surveillanceKAIT 8 | March 8, 2005PHILADELPHIA Philadelphia's police commissioner is going to send a team to Chicago to gather information about that police department's use of video surveillance cameras.The city's district attorney has called for such cameras in high-crime areas of Philadelphia, but others argue that the devices just move crime elsewhere.Critics say the cameras will also widen the divisions between police and the public and violate privacy.An official with the American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania says the cameras capture "not just what bad people do" but what all of us do.He says we "have a right, until we've done something wrong, to walk around and do what we want."The police commissioner disagrees, saying "if Big Brother can stop crime and violence, that's exactly what we need."ENDInterstate 95 To Get Security CamerasComputers Will Scan For Suspicious ActivityNeighborhood WatchCam and Homeland SecureCam To Watch Over New OrleansWireless IQ (Solectek press release) | March 4, 2005Solectek today announces a partnership with Active Solutions to deploy wireless video camera and remote vehicle access networks for the City of New Orleans Police Department. Solectek's SkyWay 5000 Multipoint System is coupled with Active Solution's Neighborhood WatchCam(TM) security camera solutions in a city-wide security camera network. In addition, the network will be used to backhaul electronics citation services as well as provide remote access for mobile data terminals used in police vehicles.Video surveillance has become the latest weapon for law enforcement agencies to fight crime and terrorism. With the emergence of the Neighborhood WatchCam(TM) and its ability to connect directly to the power grid, IP-based network cameras can be easily deployed at strategic locations with video images streamed to a central monitoring station.Camera placement is often challenging due to the difficulties in network wiring provisions. Wireless backhaul eliminates the problem altogether. "Wireless solutions are making huge inroads into remote video applications. We now have sufficient bandwidth to carry a large number of high resolution video streams, even for installations without line-of-sight to the monitoring center," says Dr. Eric Lee, CEO of Solectek.Active Solutions, who builds and deploys the Neighborhood WatchCam(TM) and its bullet-resistant big brother, the Homeland SecureCam(TM), chose to work with Solectek's 5.8GHz SkyWay 5000 Systems to provide its wireless backhaul. "The Solectek SkyWay 5000 system was the best choice of wireless systems currently available on the market. We found that their system significantly outperformed other wireless systems in the important criteria for wireless video. It offers a unique combination of high bandwidth, ease of deployment, weatherproof construction and NLOS capability for difficult installations. We have been very successful in integrating their system with our camera solutions," says Iggie Perrin, Vice President of Active Solutions.Using a two-tier, macro/micro cell approach, Active Solutions has designed multiple, local networks for the cameras using Solectek SkyWay 5000 Multipoint Systems to backhaul all video feeds to the central monitoring station. Initial macro cells were deployed in high crime areas of New Orleans in October of 2004, using 3 multipoint networks and almost 30 streaming, network cameras. Solectek systems not only provided sufficient bandwidth for high-resolution images, but also added crucial NLOS capabilities for most camera locations. A total of 240 cameras should be in service in New Orleans by the end of 2005.ENDSurveillance Cameras Sprouting Up All Over Central TexasKXAN TV | May 5, 2005Watch yourself in public places in Central Texas. New electronic eyes are popping up in spots you haven't even considered.The government has them. Restaurants and shops have them too.Surveillance cameras are going up everywhere often without your knowledge.The government is making sure, soon you won't be able to get away with anything especially on Central Texas streets.You can find them almost anywhere in alarm clocks, pagers, smoke detectors, motion detectors, ceilings and doorways. Little eyes watching you."We were able to see you drive up in the front parking lot. Actually approach the front door and come into the office today," Matt Vickers with Dyezz Surveillance said.Vickers installs cameras all over Austin. Many of which you'd never have a chance to notice."The camera's designed to catch anyone coming into our business. So, that's literally a pinhole camera? All it looks like is a tiny hole in the ceiling that nobody would notice," Vickers said.It's not just in front of private businesses where you could be watched. Even if you're just walking down the street, chances are someone's looking at you.A government agency has even requested revolving cameras for downtown buildings to monitor foot traffic and traffic violations."The city of Austin will start using cameras to be able to see if people pay their tolls on the new toll roads," Vickers said.Bars, shops, restaurants, college campuses -- they're intended to protect, but in order to do that, they must see everything."If you're doing something that you shouldn't be doing in a public place, you might think twice," Vickers said.With the Internet, you can check in on the camera's view from anywhere in the world."We got to the room, plugged in the laptop and boom, I could see inside the shop, and I actually caught my employee sleeping," Alex Navarro with Discount Furniture said."The one advantage that the camera has is that it's always on and it always has its eyes open," Vickers said.Public buses also have security cameras inside.In many cities, police are putting them up in high crime areas.Some good advice per Dyezz Surveillance, if you're ever in a car accident, quickly take a look around first to see what cameras might have caught it on tape.More Cities Deploy Camera Surveillance Systems with Federal Grant MoneyEPIC | May 12, 2005President Bush's proposed $2.57 trillion federal budget for Fiscal Year 2006 greatly increases the amount of money spent on surveillance technology and programs while cutting about 150 programs—most of them from the Department of Education. EPIC's "Spotlight on Surveillance" project scrutinizes these surveillance programs.The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has requested more than $2 billion to finance grants to state and local governments for homeland security needs. 1Some of this money is being used by state and local governments to create networks of surveillance cameras to watch over the public in the streets, shopping centers, at airports and more. 2However, studies have found that such surveillance systems have little effect on crime, and that it is more effective to place more officers on the streets and improve lighting in high-crime areas. 3There are significant concerns about citizens’ privacy rights and misuse or abuse of the system. A professor at the University of Nevada at Reno has alleged that the university used a homeland security camera system to surreptitiously watch him after he filed a complaint alleging that the university abused its research animals. 4Also, British studies have found there is a significant danger of racial discrimination and stereotyping by those monitoring the cameras. 5Chicago has 2,250 cameras in its “Homeland Security Grid,” which DHS helped finance with a $5.1 million grant, and will be adding cameras in the next two years with funds from another $48 million grant from Homeland Security. 7By 2006, Chicago will have a 900-mile fiber-optic grid. 8The cameras are linked to a $43-million operations center constantly monitored by police officers. 9Baltimore has used federal grants to finance its camera system and $1.3 million “Watch Center.” 10 The cameras are connected to the state’s existing highway monitoring cameras, and the plan is for five counties in Maryland – Anne Arundel, Baltimore, Carroll, Hartford and Howard – to connect with the city’s surveillance system. 11In New Orleans digital camera images are sent to a main server archive for monitoring, and the Internet-based archive can be accessed from any location, including police vehicles. 12 Cameras are currently operating in the city, but New Orleans’ extensive 1,000-camera surveillance system is expected to be fully deployed by the end of the year. 13 Paramus, N.J., is launching a pilot camera surveillance system at shopping malls that will be partially financed by federal grants. 14Though cities are spending millions for these systems, studies have shown that they do not decrease criminal activity. Last year, a Milwaukee study found that law enforcement officials in cities such as Detroit, Mich.; Miami, Fla.; and Oakland, Calif., abandoned the use of these surveillance systems because they had little effect on crime prevention. 15Several American cities looked to Great Britain’s surveillance system when developing their own. London has 200,000 cameras, and more than 4 million cameras have been deployed throughout the country. 16 It is estimated that there is one camera for every 14 people. 17 The average Briton is seen by 300 cameras per day, according to estimates. 18 However, several studies have shown that these systems have very little effect on crime. In 2002, the British Home Office examined 22 camera surveillance systems in North America and the United Kingdom, and found that such systems had a small effect on crime. 19 It is more effective to place more officers on the streets and improve lighting in high-crime areas. 20Studies have also shown that there is a serious risk of race discrimination with the use of camera surveillance networks. Black males are disproportionately scrutinized when such cameras systems are used. 21 The National Association for the Criminal Rehabilitation of Offenders found race discrimination in the systems and stated “[w]hen certain sections of the community are disproportionately monitored, this not only acts to portray an impression of criminality amongst these groups (certain acts are noticed whilst other groups may be carrying out the same acts unmonitored and unnoticed), it also conveys a message to these individuals that they are not trusted.” 22There are also concerns that the homeland security camera systems will be misused or abused. The University of Nevada at Reno installed a network of 80 surveillance cameras throughout campus grounds and in school buildings with a $598,000 grant from Homeland Security in 2003. 23 Professor Hussein S. Hussein filed suit after finding that the university used a homeland security hidden camera to watch his lab after Mr. Hussein had previously found a hidden university police camera, installed inside a smoke detector, was being used to monitor his lab. 24 The university admitted installing the hidden camera, but claimed it was investigating a “potential hate crime.” 25The University of Nevada at Reno is just one of many universities that are using camera surveillance systems, including the University of Texas at Austin and the University of Pennsylvania. 26 At the University of Northern Iowa, students protested after Cedar Falls, Iowa, installed cameras to monitor crowds gathered for Homecoming. 27The list of places installing camera surveillance systems includes smaller towns. Cicero, Ill., (population: 83,000) plans to install several surveillance cameras, at a cost of $50,000 each, with a grant from Homeland Security. 28 A federal grant of $150,000 will help Newport, R.I., (population: 86,000) to pay for the installation of surveillance cameras. 29 St. Bernard Parish, La., (population: 66,000) spent $112,000 in federal funds for surveillance cameras. 30EPIC has been following the growth in the use of such camera systems for years. In 2002, EPIC launched the Observing Surveillance project. 31 The project includes a map of camera locations in areas of downtown Washington, D.C., which indicates both the locations of surveillance cameras installed by the D.C. Metropolitan Police Department and the projected surveillance radius of those cameras.Coming to your neighborhood in VA: Surveillance camerasSomebody could be watching you from above Alexandria's neighborhoods if Police Chief Daren Coutee has his way.The chief is exploring the idea of putting cameras, which would record video footage and photos, in different parts of the city as a way to combat crime."We have to get into the 21st century, the criminals are," Coutee said Wednesday.Modernizing is one thing, but invading a person's privacy is another, Louisiana American Civil Liberties Union Executive Director Joe Cook said.Such cameras are creeping the community closer to a Big Brother society, Cook said.No official decision has been made on if and when the cameras would start recording in Alexandria, and the city doesn't even know how many cameras would be purchased.Each camera costs between $500 and $5,000, not including installation costs, Coutee said. The chief is searching for grant money to offset the cost to the city.A demonstration on possible camera options is being planned and will happen within the next two weeks, the chief said. Coutee is working with G&A Communications and ZYcom Surveillance of Dallas.Gerald Alexander, who owns both companies, said Wednesday he has met with Coutee and is selecting potential cameras that fit the city's need. His company is looking at the Panasonic WV-NW474S as the surveillance camera for Alexandria.Like Coutee, Alexander said he is continuing to do homework for the city.The chief would like the cameras to be portable and not focused in one neighborhood. The cameras would be moved every 30 days to neighborhoods where complaints have come in. Some of them might have controlled movement from within the police department.Coutee foresees the cameras being used to catch drug dealers, prostitutes and burglars.The department has received a rash of vehicle-theft complaints in the La. Highway 28 West area. Coutee said the cameras would be perfect for that area to try to catch those responsible.Coutee's plan is to mount the cameras in discreet locations, making them as out of reach as possible for potential vandals and thieves. Each camera is bulletproof and weatherproof.The cameras transmit video back to the police department where an officer will monitor it 24 hours a day via computer."With the technology available, we should use it to catch criminals," Coutee said. "Criminals are advancing with the times, and we need to stay ahead."Cook, however, disagrees.He said there has been no evidence that proves the video cameras stop crime and even noted some cities, like London, saw some violent crimes increase after cameras were installed.Cook suggested the department use the money to invest into more manpower and community-relation efforts rather than technology that encroaches on the public's rights.This is "reckless gambling of precious privacy rights," Cook said. "We should not be spied upon by the government."Coutee said his department does not plan to intrude on anyone's privacy."We are not going into anyone's living room," the chief said.Unlike the intersection cameras Coutee has suggested, the city doesn't need state approval for this program. There are already cities in Louisiana using the cameras.Shreveport began a camera program in 2003. Police spokeswoman Kacee Hargrave said Wednesday that most people don't know the cameras exist, however, the department does run into problems with moving it without anyone noticing. The camera is mainly used for surveillance.The Shreveport Times reported in September 2004 that the surveillance camera had led to 34 arrests and the seizure of more than $30,000 worth of drugs.New Orleans has three dozen cameras up and has a goal of having 1,000 rolling, said Police Captain Marlon Defillo. He said the city has seen a positive impact, and the cameras have at least twice been used in making an arrest. The city installed the cameras last year.Alexandria's police department has used cameras for narcotics investigations, but the cameras belonged to the federal government. The city has surveillance cameras surrounding the department's Bolton Avenue headquarters that send images to several computers within the department.City Council President Charles F. Smith Jr. is aware of the chief's idea and likes it. He hears complaints routinely about drug dealers on street corners, but when police get there the suspects are gone."We want to get crime down in the city," Smith said. "We don't want residents to be prisoners in their own homes. I think this will help our police department and our community."Alexandria resident Earl Cross Sr. isn't against high-tech equipment. The president of the Lower Third Neighborhood Watch said he thinks the equipment can't replace community policing."It doesn't help if the officers don't stop and talk to people," he said. Cross also wonders how police will identify suspects caught on camera.ENDCameras Put Police Ears to the GroundCNN | July 6, 2005CHICAGO, Illinois (AP) -- Police installed video surveillance cameras around town and saw Chicago's murder rate fall to its lowest level in four decades. Now the cops hope to further cut crime by not only watching, but listening, too.The city is employing new technology that recognizes the sound of a gunshot within a two-block radius, pinpoints the source, turns a surveillance camera toward the shooter and places a 911 call.Welcome to crime-fighting in the 21st century."Instead of just having eyes, you have the advantage of both eyes and ears," said Bryan Baker, chief executive of Safety Dynamics LLC, the company in suburban Oak Brook that makes the systems.The technology isn't just gaining favor in Chicago, where 30 of the devices have already been installed in high-crime neighborhoods alongside video surveillance cameras. Baker says dozens more installations will follow.In Los Angeles County, the sheriff's department plans to deploy 20 units in a pilot test, and officials in Tijuana, Mexico, recently bought 353 units, Baker said. Police in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and San Francisco, California, are close to launching test programs of their own, and New Orleans, Louisiana, and Atlanta, Georgia, also have made inquiries.Military use Safety Dynamics also works with the U.S. Army and Navy, developing systems that could detect a range of sounds such as glass shattering or diesel trucks slowing in an unexpected location.Some U.S. troops in Iraq already have a similar system that works differently. Designed quickly in late 2003 and early 2004 by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and BBN Technologies Inc. of Cambridge, Massachusetts, a detector known as "Boomerang" can be mounted on the back of a moving vehicle to locate hostile gunfire.The Safety Dynamics system deployed in Chicago, known formally as Smart Sensor Enabled Neural Threat Recognition and Identification -- or SENTRI -- uses four microphones to triangulate, or zero in, on the shooter.By contrast, the Boomerang has sensors mounted atop a pole that detect shock and sound waves from a muzzle blast.In Chicago, police hope the SENTRI system will add momentum to a technology-fueled crackdown on guns and gang violence.The city in 2004 reduced its homicide rate to its lowest level since 1965 and police seized 10,000 guns -- successes that were in large part credited to a network of "pods," or remote-controlled cameras that can rotate 360 degrees and feed video directly to squad-car laptops.The SENTRI systems are an addition to that network."They have been extremely successful," said Monique Bond, spokeswoman for the Chicago Office of Emergency Management. "We've been able to see the benefits that cameras and advanced technology bring to the community."Privacy matters The American Civil Liberties Union in Illinois is concerned about privacy rights being violated by the city's prevalent camera system. Spokesman Ed Yohnka said officers need to be properly trained in monitoring the cameras and only record activity in public spaces, such as sidewalks and streets.As long as the cameras and SENTRI system are set up in public spaces, they do not violate the law, said Northwestern University Law School professor Robert W. Bennett."You don't have much in the way of privacy issues when you're in a public area," Bennett said.And local officials say it's hard to argue with the results."The crime rates in Chicago are the lowest in 40 years. The price of keeping the community safe far outweighs civil liberty issues," Bond said.Baker stresses that SENTRI is programmed to recognize only gunshots, not record conversations or "bug" private homes."There's no mechanism for other sounds like human voices," he said.SENTRI is the brainchild of Safety Dynamics and Dr. Theodore Berger, director of the Center for Neural Engineering at the University of Southern California.Each SENTRI contains a library of acoustical patterns, or "sound signatures," which Berger developed over several years. They're used to differentiate gunshots from other noises, such as traffic and construction, by measuring the unique decibel level of a bullet being fired. That way, a gunshot activates the system but a car backfiring does not.Adding SENTRI to an existing surveillance camera is not cheap, however. The system costs between $4,000 and $10,000 per unit. In Chicago, money forfeited by criminals is used to pay for both it and the accompanying cameras.As a result, Police Superintendent Phil Cline told a recent U.S. Conference of Mayors meeting, "the drug dealers are actually paying to surveillance themselves.ENDSecurity Cameras Back in Demand After London bomb attacks, several US cities draw up plans to increase surveillance, despite potential downsides.CS Monitor | August 3 2005 By Adam KarlinIt's a scenario out of a sci-fi movie: a surveillance camera that records your face, transmits the image to a database, and raises an alarm if you're a suspected terrorist, a sex offender, or a missing person.But what if you're an Al Qaeda agent in a Groucho Marx mask?Then it gets a little more complicated, as police in Tampa, Fla., discovered a few years ago when surveillance camera technology was a security trend. Under the FaceIt scanning program, the police scanned 100,000 unknowing fans at Raymond James Stadium during the 2001 Super Bowl. But the project was ultimately shelved, in 2003, partly because anti-surveillance activists discovered the cameras could be fooled by ski masks, bandannas, even sunglasses.Interest in the technology never wholly faded, and now, in the wake of the London attacks and the widely publicized use of cameras to track down suspects in those incidents, some politicians in the United States are again saying it's time to seriously consider increased video surveillance. Although they eschew Tampa's complicated biometric bells and whistles in favor of simpler recording networks, the cameras are going up in New York, Baltimore, New Orleans, Chicago, and Detroit: in subway tunnels, at bus stops, on downtown promenades, and in low-income neighborhoods. With the programs comes a lively debate on security versus privacy, cost versus effectiveness, and the role of the government when it comes to protecting - and monitoring - citizens."People feel safer if they know an area is being watched," says Vincent Morris, a spokesman for Washington Mayor Anthony Williams, who has publicly stated his support for increasing public surveillance since the 7/7 attacks. Mr. Morris calls the cameras a necessity in a city that has already been a terrorist target and describes them as more of a deterrent than an outright preventive measure: "We've had red-light cameras here, and they cause people to slow down," he says.Some cities are moving ahead quickly. A week after 7/7, New York announced that its Metropolitan Transit Authority would begin installing cameras in the underwater tunnels that link Manhattan to outside neighborhoods.All of this raises the issue: Cameras that discourage drivers from running red lights are one thing. But suicide bombers, experts say, are liable to blow themselves up whether they're being recorded or not.'Investigation value'Still, in their investigations after 7/7 and the attempted 7/21 attacks, British law enforcement has made extensive use of surveillance tape."[Cameras] have huge post-incident investigation value and potential prosecution value. One of the reasons the London authorities have made the progress that they've made is because of the images they had on the camera," says Jack Riley, a crime and security expert at the RAND Corp. in Pittsburgh.But such use alone does not make a city secure, he adds."I would put cameras in the same category as improved lighting, increased foot patrols, and the use of explosive-detecting dogs - as a potential deterrent."Some civil liberties activists agree with that assessment. But they also see huge potential for abuse: a looming threat of privacy invasion and hints of a Big Brother-esque state where all public activity is recorded and analyzed.After all, surveillance doesn't just happen in subway stations. In June 2004, the libertarian Reason magazine, using public databases, sent some 45,000 subscribers a personalized issue with a satellite image of their residence on the cover."We had some people cancel their subscriptions after that," says Reason editor Nick Gillespie. Ironically, the issue addressed the "upside of zero privacy" - such as ease of marketing - but that said, Mr. Gillespie doesn't shirk from criticizing a watchdog society.While he acknowledges that footage helped the London investigations, he makes it clear: "I don't necessarily think that tells us surveillance of public areas is an unfettered good thing."He adds, "There are TV shows in England that show outtakes from surveillance cameras. There's something weird about that. There's something creepy about that. We fundamentally have to ask ourselves, are we an open society or not?"The European Parliament addressed such a question, in the 1998 report "An Appraisal of Technologies of Political Control." Europe in general, and the United Kingdom in particular, makes heavy use of surveillance technology in public places, and the report warned against monitoring abuses that smack of totalitarian regimes.In a section titled "Developments in Surveillance Technology," the report reads, "Much of this technology is used to track the activities of dissidents, human rights activists, journalists, student leaders, minorities, trade union leaders and political opponents."The outlook statesideBut if abuses occur in the US, they'll occur under the auspices of a transparent system where citizens can hold authorities accountable, argues Robert Atkinson, vice president of the Progressive Policy Institute in Washington.Mr. Atkinson says that surveillance systems, like any tool - especially law-enforcement tools like guns - can be potentially abused. But he adds that in a cost-benefit analysis, they are a cheap, efficient way to keep tabs on public spaces, which is a police officer's duty anyway."Put it this way: If we had the money, we could put a cop in every station," he says. "How is that different from a video surveillance system?"Some say it is. They argue that the cameras are too impersonal yet simultaneously too intrusive. But critics and proponents agree that the issue is not really a question of equipment. It's the policy associated with the technology.There is "a very thorny issue on what your policies and procedures are going to be when it comes to monitoring," says Mr. Riley of RAND. "If departments are smart, they're going to get out in front of this, because sooner or later they're behind it, and that's not a good place to be if you're making policy.ENDBig Brother To Monitor High SchoolsNBC 5 | August 17 2005DALLAS -- Hundreds of Dallas high school students soon will have video cameras watching over them if Dallas Independent School District officials follow through with their plan.DISD leaders want to install surveillance cameras in 22 high schools within the district. The cameras would be placed in the hallways and some common areas of the schools.Principals said the cameras would provide evidence during investigations of fights and other punishable incidents.Some parents, however, don't want the cameras installed.ENDNew Cameras to Watch Over Subway SystemNew York Times | August 24 2005Officials unveiled the high-tech future of transit security in New York City yesterday: an ambitious plan to saturate the subways with 1,000 video cameras and 3,000 motion sensors and to enable cellphone service in 277 underground stations - but not in moving trains - for the first time.Moving quickly after the subway and bus bombings in London last month, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority awarded a three-year, $212 million contract to a group of contractors led by the Lockheed Martin Corporation, which is best known for making military hardware like fighter planes, missiles and antitank systems.The authority abandoned its earlier reservations about cellphone service, agreeing that the benefits of allowing 911 and other calls during emergencies outweighed the costs and the risk of a phone-detonated bomb. It invited carriers to submit proposals by Oct. 12. The winning bidder, which would receive a 10-year license, would have to pay for the installation of the wireless network and would be required to disable all calls at the authority's request. It is not clear how long installation, which will cover 277 of the 468 stations, will take.The surveillance and cellphone strategies, together with a police campaign begun last month to check riders' bags and packages, are a step toward what some critics have long said cannot be done - putting the nation's largest transit system under constant watch, and fortifying it with enough obstacles to deter potential terrorists."We will try everything, and deploy all technologies possible, to prevent an attack from happening," said Katherine N. Lapp, the authority's executive director.The new security measures will be in place in the subway, along with the authority's two commuter railroads and nine bridges and tunnels and busy transit hubs at Grand Central Terminal, Pennsylvania Station and Times Square. While transit agencies in Boston and Houston have experimented with so-called "intelligent video" software, and London has far more cameras, the New York plan is the first to try to marry several advanced security technologies at once, experts said.At the center of the effort will be a dense network of cameras that can zoom, pivot and rotate, all while transmitting and recording images of vulnerable areas, from dark tunnels under the East River to bustling subway platforms in Midtown. Each camera will capture distances up to 300 feet and will cost about $1,200. A selected location could have 2 to 30 cameras. For now, there will be no cameras on trains and buses.Mark D. Bonatucci, a Lockheed Martin program director, who will oversee the effort and who plans to move to the New York area with about a dozen colleagues, showed off a bank of video screens yesterday that will be part of a new computer-aided dispatch system. He demonstrated how security officials, to be based at eight control centers, might respond to two situations.In the first, a person tries to enter a secure facility using an expired electronic access card; a computer detects and signals the security breach on an aerial photograph of the area. Officials would pinpoint the site, watch the attempted entry on a video monitor and send a security officer to investigate.In the second, a briefcase is left on a busy Midtown subway platform. As a camera beams live images, software can distinguish the moving people from the motionless package, sending off an alert about an unattended, suspicious object. Police officers with bomb-sniffing dogs would be sent to the platform.The system has limits. The cameras cannot determine whether a suspicious object has been left behind in a garbage can, for example.The cameras will be installed in the next few "weeks and months," Ms. Lapp said, while the underlying software and computer systems are designed. The contractors will also devise a new radio communications system for the authority's 700-member police force, which patrols the Long Island Rail Road and the Metro-North Railroad. (The New York Police Department monitors the subways.)A handful of subway riders interviewed at Times Square yesterday expressed strong support for electronic surveillance.Rashida Padilla, 26, a business student at Monroe College in the Bronx, said the London bombings convinced her that the authority and the police should take strong measures to tighten security. "It's just scary," Ms. Padilla said, referring to her daily ride. "I'm for anything that they want to do. It makes me feel more safe to have the searches and the cameras."Jerry Monchik, 53, an electrician who lives on Staten Island and takes the No. 1 train in Manhattan, said that while terrorists "will do what they want to do, no matter what," it was comforting to know that more activity will be recorded in the subways. "It will help with robberies and muggings, and if there is an attack, they can catch people more easily," he said.While most experts doubt that technology could stop a determined suicide bomber, Ms. Lapp said the emphasis on surveillance was the best approach now available. "Obviously, this system, we hope, will detect a terrorist before an incident happens - not just be able, for forensic purposes after an incident happens, to identify who the terrorist is," she said.The Lockheed Martin contract, which includes optional extensions for maintenance work through September 2013, will focus on physical security. A second big contract, the details of which will be completed by the end of this year, will focus on equipment that can detect biological, chemical and radiological agents in the transit network.Lockheed Martin, based in Bethesda, Md., prevailed over two competitors: the Science Applications International Corporation, an employee-owned research and engineering firm in San Diego, and Siemens, the German electrical engineering and electronics conglomerate. The three companies submitted proposals on July 22.Lockheed Martin, along with other defense giants like the Northrop Grumman Corporation, had participated in talks between the authority and a specialized Army unit in 2002 and 2003. Those talks ended because, the authority says, the military asked for too much control."We understand the need for immediate action to protect the M.T.A. operations," said Judy F. Marks, executive vice president of Lockheed Martin Transportation and Security Solutions, the business unit that will oversee the contract. "We also understand the need to expedite the movement of people and goods in the metropolitan New York area."Hiring a military contractor to create a security system is a fateful step in the authority's counterterrorism efforts, which have proceeded haltingly since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. In 2002, the authority set aside $591 million for counterterrorism, but as of last month had spent only a fraction of that amount. It has come under pressure to move faster.For the past 18 months, the authority has surveyed its universe of existing security devices, which include some 5,700 closed-circuit television cameras. Many of them are antiquated, unable to record images or are in relatively unimportant areas.In a statement last night, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg commended the M.T.A. "for taking this important step to increase the security of our mass transit system." He said completing the system should be the authority's highest priority. "They need to move forward immediately with installing more cameras in subway stations, as they are an important deterrent and will be an invaluable investigative tool for the N.Y.P.D."The New York Civil Liberties Union, which has filed a legal challenge to the bag-search policy, said it was worried about abuses. "There are questions about both the value and the privacy implications of massive video surveillance in the subways," said Donna Lieberman, its executive director.Roger Toussaint, president of Local 100 of the Transport Workers Union of America, called for better training on emergency preparedness. "Done correctly, new technology has its place," he said. "However, the human element is indispensable, and in the event of an emergency, it is personnel, not computers and cameras, who will respond."Lockheed Martin will work with six partners, including Systra Engineering, a transportation engineering firm in Bloomfield, N.J.; the Intergraph Corporation, a software and data management company in Madison, Ala., and the Cubic Corporation of San Diego, a transportation and military business that helped establish the MetroCard system in the subways in the 1990's.The other partners are Lenel Systems International, a security technology company in Rochester; Arinc, a transportation communications firm in Annapolis, Md.; and Slattery Skanska, part of the large Swedish construction firm Skanska.ENDTexas Police Chief Wants Surveillance Cameras in Private HomesCameras watching on College Hill, and soon will be downtownSurveillance Cameras Make Their Way to Small TownsParents fight school over mandatory RFID on kidsChicago Mayor Wants Security Cameras at BarsLate With Payment? -Car Won't Start!Is Your Car Spying On You?Cameras in AlaskaComment from webmaster of www.Jesus-is-Savior.com:All across America, surveillance cameras are being installed to monitor American citizens. The implications are frightening. Little do U.S. citizens realize that we are fast headed for a Global Godless Totalitarian Police State. Surveillance cameras are now being installed on school buses, in public school classrooms, on street corners across America, and even in shopping-mall bathrooms. Where will this infringement upon our privacy end? This nightmare is just getting started folks."If we stuck to the Constitution as written, we would have: no federal meddling in our schools; no Federal Reserve; no U. S. membership in the U.N.; no gun control; and no foreign aid. We would have no welfare for big corporations, or the "poor"; No American troops in 100 foreign countries; no NAFTA, GATT, or "fast-track"; no arrogant federal judges usurping states rights; no attacks on private property; and no income tax. We can get rid of most of the cabinet departments, most of the agencies, and most of the budget. 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