Posted on 11/20/2005 4:13:01 AM PST by pageonetoo
The District has begun using surveillance cameras to keep an electronic eye out for illegal dumpers, riling advocates of civil liberties who call the tactic intrusive and unconstitutional.
About a half-dozen of the portable, motion-sensor cameras are monitoring alleys and abandoned lots. Their quarry: those who dump industrial and hazardous waste on public property.
Metropolitan Police Chief Charles H. Ramsey yesterday said illegal dumping is a "huge" problem but directed questions about the cameras to the Department of Public Works, the agency in charge of the program...
(Excerpt) Read more at insider.washingtontimes.com ...
... Four public-works employees and four police officers will monitor the cameras, which cost about $5,000 each, Miss Myers said...
... Residents in the 1200 block of Linden Place Northeast petitioned to have a camera placed in an alley behind their properties after a burning body was discovered there in June...
... "It doesn't make a difference, not from our point of view," he said. "The cameras give [residents] this illusion of security, safety and law enforcement."..
Hope they don't have this lense:
http://www.smarthouse.com.au/Entertainment/Digital_Cameras/?article=/Entertainment/Digital%20Cameras/News/F2W6W7H5
This could make Hillary's presidency a bit more difficult...
Not really, Hillary lives in the other DC where the white people live.
I dont know how sensitive the Motion detectors that start these cameras off are, but in most alleys in Southeast across the river, the cameras will be runnig 24 hours a day from the rats , dogs , cats, and dope dealers setting them off.
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