Showing posts with label cameras. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cameras. Show all posts
Cellphone Justice And The Killing Of Kelly Thomas
by Paul Detrick. Cops go free after beating an innocent man to death. On January 14, 2014, Manuel Ramos and Jay Cicinelli, two former police officers in Fullerton, California, were acquitted of manslaughter and second-degree murder charges in the death of Kelly Thomas, a 37-year-old schizophrenic drifter. The two cops brutally beat ... MOREZach Weissmueller: Oakland vs. Government Surveillance!
Defeating the Domain Awareness Center. "Whether it's going back to the free speech movement, the Black
Panthers, Occupy Oakland... we fight back," says Brian Hofer, an
attorney affiliated with the
Oakland Privacy Working Group, an association of Oakland
residents fighting against the city's proposed
Domain Awareness Center. ... MOREAmericans Are Being Thrown In Jail For Filming Police
by John W. Whitehead. Lights, Camera, Arrested. Once again, the U.S. government is attempting to police the world when it should be policing its own law enforcement agencies. We’ve got a warship cruising the Black Sea, fighter jets patrolling the Baltic skies, and a guided-missile destroyer searching the South China Sea for the downed ... MORE
Big Brother Getting Stronger Every Day
by William F.B. O'Reilly. I went to bed earlier this week a semi-rational person.
I awoke the next day a raving paranoid. It happens once in a while. It wasn't a single thing that put me over the
edge; it was the accumulation of stories about expanding police
technologies, the ones to which we, as citizens, routinely succumb. Call
it a Keyser Söze ... MORE10 Prison Security Techniques Being Used On The People
Marlon Brock on America's police state. Americans are not typically aware of how their federal and state prison systems work. What we think we know, we learned from watching television. When I took my first walk through at FCI (Federal Correctional Institution) El Reno Oklahoma as a new employee, I was surprised at how non- ... MORE
Amanda Warren: NYPD Breaks Child's Leg For Filming Them
Cop then adds insult to injury win assault on Mom. One morning, last January, NYPD from the 63rd precinct, showed up at Krystle Silvera's home looking for her ex-boyfriend for violating an order of protection. But protecting is not how they responded to her family. Her cancer-stricken mother answered the door, confused by what ... MOREJacob Kornblush: Blazio's New Ploy To Fleece Citizens
NYC speeding cameras gain revenue bonanza. The profitability of the police state. Nearly a thousand drivers have been ticketed by the city’s speed cameras since Mayor Bill de Blasio’s “Vision Zero” traffic initiative took effect two weeks ago. The Department of Transportation tells NY1 it has already issued 900 speeding violations since ... MORE
Is Crazed Super Bowl Security a Taste of America To Come?
by J. D. Tuccille. Think of a TSA checkpoint that goes on, forever. In the run-up to Super Bowl XLVIII (just be
happy they don't use Egyptian numerals), the New York City Police
Department is deploying an "amazing
arsenal of security initiatives," including
200 "temporary" surveillance cameras to ensure that dirty deeds
remain undone at the big ... MORERadar Detectors for Speeding & Camera Protection
The pretense of safety and the pursuit of revenue. As budgets are still stretched states are always looking for new ways to raise additional revenue. Red Light cameras are popping up all across the country and new photo radar cameras are spreading to capture your every move on the roads. While all deployed as additional safety ... MOREDevices Give Locations Of Red-Light Cameras
by John R. Quain. Banished by voters in Houston, facing legal challenges in Missouri and working undercover in New York City, traffic-monitoring cameras, promoted as accident-reducing tools by safety advocates and decried as intrusive revenue-generators by opponents, are nothing if not controversial. The battlefront of photographic ... MOREJohn R. Quain: On Alert For Red-Light Cameras
Strike back against intrusive revenue generators. Banished by voters in Houston, facing legal challenges in Missouri and working undercover in New York City, traffic-monitoring cameras, promoted as accident-reducing tools by safety advocates and decried as intrusive revenue-generators by opponents, are nothing if not ... MORERonald Bailey: Watched Cops Are Good Cops
One way to improve policing. Requiring law enforcement to wear video cameras will protect your constitutional rights and improve policing. This summer, after a civil suit challenged the New York City
Police Department's notorious program of patting down "suspicious"
residents, Judge Shira A. Scheindlin of the Federal District Court
in ... MOREWatch What Happens When The Camera Is Turned On Cops
Little brothers may be watching. With the exponential growth of an incredibly intrusive surveillance
state threatening to virtually destroy the Bill of Rights and the
privacy of millions of Americans, the possibility of repealing or
severely scaling back a federalized Big Brother in the United States
seems remote. The technology at the ... MORERonald Bailey: Watched Cops Are Polite Cops
Who will watch the watchers? What if all watchers were required
to wear a video camera that would record their every interaction
with citizens? In her ruling in a recent civil suit challenging the
New York City police department’s notorious stop-and-frisk rousting
of residents, Judge Shira A. Scheindlin of the Federal District
Court in ... MORESteve Chapman: Surveillance Cameras Are Not All That
A help in Boston, but are cameras really a good idea? Video surveillance cameras have been growing in popularity for years, but in recent weeks their advance has gotten a turbo boost. After helping to identify two suspects in the Boston Marathon bombings, they went from occasionally desirable to universally vital. Mayor Rahm ... MORE
VIDEO: The Next Generation Of Surveillance Capability
ARGUS Featured on PBS Nova. BIG BROTHER IS HERE!
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