Councilman James Oddo
Posted on 09/30/2009 8:19:44 AM PDT by BGHater
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- It could be a van with a plumber logo on it or a yellow livery cab. Or maybe it's a generic gray sedan, driven by a man who looks like an accountant.
The only way you will really know what the top-secret surveillance vehicle that recently hit the streets of the Mid-Island's 122nd Precinct looks like is if you get busted in some criminal act.
Similar to the one launched by the Island's MTA police two years ago, the $55,000 high-tech ride was funded by City Councilman James Oddo (R-Mid-Island/Brooklyn) to help combat quality-of-life crimes. The "vehicle" has helped nab dozens of graffiti vandals on and around the Staten Island Railroad.
Oddo had a warning for others:
"People should think long and hard before they do anything wrong, because we are watching."
Advance sources are mum on the exact make and model of the vehicle, but did say it is equipped with a periscope, digital cameras, recorders and some "neat computer stuff."
Councilman James Oddo
Not me, I read the article.
Huh? News to me. Got something to back that statement up with. As in case law?
No one can legally make you delete a photo taken in public. Not even the cops. Once the photo is taken, it is your property.
There is no expectation of privacy in a public space.
Are you referring to me or the other poster?
I was referring to ex 98C MI Dude’s assertion. I see that MediaMole has given the correct answer.
Thanks I’ll check mediamole’s response.
“There is no expectation of privacy in a public space”
That is what I was telling the poster. Thx.
1. The headline should not be misleading or ambiguouis...
Why not? The story often is. The headline is intended to get you to READ the story. (that's why there are Headline Editors)
2. ...so that we don't HAVE to read the article,
I too miss Carson and the Great Karnak
America was founded as a ‘self governing’ people. We self govern ourselves based on, say the Ten Commandments. We have individual rights and are not governed as a ‘mass’ with everyone only having the same collective rights ( Meaning we all have to do it, or none get to do it). We each separately get to choose, say how to raise our children, what food we eat etc. It is not dictated to us or forced upon us by a dictator or government. We fought tyranny and won. We are now sliding back in to tyranny. If you let it happen.
It’s not “we” that are sliding. It is the government. The people are putting up a good fight, but in this country it is the governmentand and the criminals who have the most rights. I don’t deny that we allowed this to happen, but what do we do now?
You see, the three of you are the grease that the democrats use to destroy this country. You don't quite get what this country is about, so you use Buzzy Ginsberg and her ilk as your ‘legal’ compass. And so you are inadvertently (or maybe maliciously agree for all we know) okay with upskirt shots on escalators. Because you ‘own’ the picture of a private citizen.
And there is where you tools of the left are destroying us. You don't get the difference between a private and public citizen. You don't even know the difference, because a black robed thug hasn't okay’d it for you. I am convinced that you have no problem with one of those new scanners that are at certain airports being stationed in your neighborhood, because we should have no expectation of privacy once we step outside our front door. Your ‘nude’ picture should be a hit on the Internet, I am sure, for having the smallest package on the block! Because, as you say, we have no RIGHT (expectation?) of privacy once we step into view of someone else. So anyone that wants a picture of your nubile 13 year old daughter has the right to photograph her decollatage, yes?
Wrong, you trio of pervs! Check yourselves out Roman Polanski School of photography! Get into what this country was all about, if your brain can handle it. I doubt it though. You haven't demonstrated an understanding required for a citizen, merely the foolish proclivities of a subject.
Not much left in Detroit area, more vacant property than any other US city.
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