The NYPD has set off the community with a proposed plan to track vehicles with the use of a mesh of cameras. The entire idea is to drop a surveillance web across Manhattan. All of this under the guise of avoiding another terrorist attack. The ultimate “go to” excuse to strip away rights and spend money on blinking lights.
From The Guardian:
As well as placing cameras at all tunnels and bridges into Manhattan, the 36-page plan, called Operation Sentinel, calls for a security ring to be erected at Ground Zero and for a 50-mile buffer zone around the city within which mobile units would search for nuclear or “dirty” bombs.
The proposals are partly based on the so-called ring of steel erected around the City of London in the wake of IRA bombings in the 1990s. Though the 3,000 cameras that could be mounted as a result of the plans of the New York police pale in comparison with the multitude of cameras in operation on the UK’s roads and in public places, the proposals have provoked outrage in the United States, where the concept of video surveillance is relatively unfamiliar .
Folks in NYC might be pissed at this possibility. I would offer that this has been shown to be relatively ineffective in London where the “ring of steel” does little more than spot the occasional pan handler.
The New York “sentinel” video system will be set up to record license plates of all vehicles at every point into Manhattan. The data would be “kept on computer for a month”. Uh huh. If you are willing to swallow that nonsense I have some land in Florida I would be willing to sell ya.
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