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Camlanta: Police installing 12,000 Cameras in Atlanta

posted by janrinok on Sunday March 02 2014, @04:30AM   Printer-friendly
from the I-can-see-you dept.

McGruber writes:

"The Atlanta Journal Constitution reports that Atlanta Police plan to have as many as 12,000 cameras installed in the city.

'Atlanta is really on the leading edge of work in this area,' said William Flynn, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) deputy assistant secretary of infrastructure protection. 'We spend a lot of our attention on preparedness, protection, prevention. This kind of technology is the best use of those efforts and the best use of our resources.'

We've even been able to capture a murder on film,' said Atlanta Police Lt. LeAnne Browning, a supervisor at the video integration center where footage from more than 2,700 cameras is monitored.

I'm sure that was of great comfort to the murder victim and his/her loved ones."

 
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  • (Score: 2) by Angry Jesus on Sunday March 02 2014, @11:11AM

    by Angry Jesus (182) on Sunday March 02 2014, @11:11AM (#9510)

    In itself that causes a dichotomy. On the one hand we want a structured, orderly society in which to conduct our business, reasonably safe from being physically maimed should things not quite work out as planned. On the other hand we want to be left alone to to do what we please - including wandering around with maiming devices.

    It causes a false dichotomy. The idea that the police must regularly intrude into the lives of citizens in order to do their job is begging the question. Framing the situation that way is great for police budgets, but not so much for crime prevention. It is the falsehood of "thin blue line" that stands between an ordered society and chaos. It isn't policing that prevents chaos, it's the fact that practically everybody just wants to get along with their lives and isn't interested in chaos.

    There will always be miscreants, but their numbers aren't even close to justifying wide-spread police intrusion into our daily lives be it in person or electronically.

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  • (Score: 1) by juggs on Wednesday March 05 2014, @05:27AM

    by juggs (63) on Wednesday March 05 2014, @05:27AM (#11188) Journal

    I agree - practically everybody does just want to get along with their lives and be left the hell alone.

    Likewise - I agree the numbers of actual miscreants are witheringly small and not even worth noting.

    The problem seems to be a very vocal, small minority demanding "action" and "clamp-downs". In the UK they seem to cluster around the The Daily Mail (paper) and Mumsnet (some web portal / forum thing that the Prime Minister thinks is important to secure him the next vote).

    The vocal seem to get a disproportional amount of indulgence. Long has been the case no doubt.

    What I was trying to get across in my commment was that society as a whole needs to take a moment and take a long hard look at what exactly it is they are letting out of the genie's bottle before letting this "CamerasCosPaedoTerrorRapeDeathKillKeepMeSafeLOLUN ICORNS" chimaera loose. It is not going back in the bottle once it is out, now is the time to debate it.