One thing is cameras are going to be covering all public space sooner or later. The cost is falling in a computer like way.. think of how much better surveilance cameras are now then 10 years ago for example.
The other thing is face/body recognition software for videos is also incredible already.. its just a matter of hooking it up to big processing power and ‘national’ databases. Again the processing power and the communications bandwith are falling at dramatic pace.
Then software to detect suspected criminal activity, to alert a human operator.
Long story short technology is going to make the streets in the big cities safer, even it means putting millions more in prison.
“Then software to detect suspected criminal activity, to alert a human operator.”
CDS = Criminal detection software?? OMG! How will it work, will there be a “furtiveness quotient” (FQ) I’m not going ACLU on you, I’m just wondering how such an initiative might work!