Council to hear video surveillence plan

data control

Submitted by AntiMusick on Wed, 01/11/2006 - 12:02.

For hundreds of years police have fought crime with out a 'Eye in the Sky big brother', and current reports say crime is at an all time low, so do we really need public money spent on crap like that?

If they plan to put one in the Tower District does this mean that the Tower is a High-Crime Area?

Besides cameras will they instigate listening devices that can eavesdrop on people in the street?

What's next have it all run buy a super computer that will control everything?

private eyes, watching you, they see your every move...

Submitted by edluv on Wed, 01/11/2006 - 11:35.

when i first heard this, my initial reaction was negative. but as i watched the story on channel 30, they even had the local organizor for copwatch supporting the idea. that made me think.

then, i heard that they were considering 8 or so areas, one of them being the tower district. and i thought, do i really want them watching people stumble home from the bar? and by people, i'm talking about someone that looks exactly like me.

really, how much can you see if you put a camera on one interection? are they planning to saturate these areas with cameras? it seems like it will be a lot of money spent for very little result.

Red Lights

Submitted by AntiMusick on Wed, 01/11/2006 - 04:02.

Will these camera's work better than the Red Light Cameras?

One $9,000 video camera, no wonder David McDonald the owner of Pelco is the richest person in Fresno.

It just does not make sense, I mean putting over priced video camera's in poor areas, maybe if the people in that area had money then there would not be as much crime there, or maybe legalize what ever so called illegal things those people are doing, then tax and regulate the activities that are going on in that area, then maybe there will be less crime.

It's like over in the middle east, especially Afghanistan lets send over priced bullets and bombs at the poor people enemy's that do not even have an air force, maybe if we just gave them that money and asked them to die for it, their families would be happier to comply to our nations wants. (we did try that with a price on Osama's head)

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Winston Smith will thank Big Brother ...