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Can 30,000 Cameras Help Solve Chicago’s Crime Problem?
The New York Times ^ | 26 May 2018 | Timothy Williams

Posted on 05/26/2018 1:33:10 PM PDT by Theoria

Armed with advanced gadgets and mapping, officers can get to crime scenes “in time to see the guy still shooting.” But what does it mean for residents’ privacy?

Just after 3 a.m. on May 4, a police officer received an alert that gunshots had been fired near an alley in a neighborhood known as the Back of the Yards.

The alert came from a hidden street sensor called a ShotSpotter, and the officer was able to pull up a map of nearby police cameras and review the video. Without leaving a room the size of a walk-in closet, he watched a man fire seven times, striking another man, who turned out to be a federal agent, in the face.

Switching from one high-definition camera to the next, the officer tracked the gunman as he fled. Unlike the grainy security videos of old, the picture quality from the cameras, which are equipped with night vision technology, was so pristine that the officer was able to watch the man wipe sweat off his face.

The tiny rooms have a large-sounding name, Strategic Decision Support Centers, and provide a peek into what could be the future of urban American policing — if they do not run afoul of American notions of privacy. They can deliver the license plate of every passing vehicle, a photo of every area resident with an arrest record, gang boundaries, 911 reports and more, right to a patrol officer’s cellphone.

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: cameras; chicago; crime; illinois; policestate; privacy; surveillance
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1 posted on 05/26/2018 1:33:10 PM PDT by Theoria
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To: Theoria

No.

Chicago doesn’t have a crime problem. They have strict gun control.


2 posted on 05/26/2018 1:35:16 PM PDT by jazminerose (Adorable Deplorableu)
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To: Theoria

No.


3 posted on 05/26/2018 1:35:26 PM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: Theoria

B I G . B R O T H E R


4 posted on 05/26/2018 1:36:47 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (01/26/18 DJIA 30 stocks $26,616.71 48.794% > open 11/07/16 215.71 from 50% increase 1.2183 yrs..)
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To: DoughtyOne
Person of Interest
5 posted on 05/26/2018 1:40:23 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: Theoria
The cams would be declared racist. All perps would be youths or teens.
6 posted on 05/26/2018 1:41:17 PM PDT by HBAR223
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To: Paladin2

B I G . B R O T H E R


7 posted on 05/26/2018 1:41:39 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (01/26/18 DJIA 30 stocks $26,616.71 48.794% > open 11/07/16 215.71 from 50% increase 1.2183 yrs..)
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To: Theoria

It won’t hurt. Putting 1/3 in Austin, 1/3 in Grand Crossing and 1/3 in Woodlawn would be the most productive use of them.
most of the crime occurs in a few neighborhoods.

There is no privacy on public streets.

Can you imagine the graft possibilities from a contract to supply 30,000 cameras? Aldermen are salivating at the prospect.


8 posted on 05/26/2018 1:43:28 PM PDT by arrogantsob (See "Chaos and Mayhem" at Amazon.com)
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To: Theoria

Sure, if they’re launched at the head of the troublmakers.


9 posted on 05/26/2018 1:44:36 PM PDT by bigbob (Trust Sessions. Trust the Plan.)
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To: Theoria

Depends on who they hire to watch the video coming from the cameras.


10 posted on 05/26/2018 1:44:41 PM PDT by Steely Tom ([Seth Rich] == [the Democrat's John Dean])
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To: Theoria

London has a camera every few feet and they have no crime. Oh wait....


11 posted on 05/26/2018 1:47:12 PM PDT by rigelkentaurus
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To: DoughtyOne

Indeed, if there is crime in prison, what makes us think 30,000 cameras in freedom will work?


12 posted on 05/26/2018 1:49:00 PM PDT by DoodleBob
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To: Theoria

Why not test market ARGUS over Chicago?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13BahrdkMU8


13 posted on 05/26/2018 1:49:16 PM PDT by PGalt
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14 posted on 05/26/2018 1:53:12 PM PDT by tomkat
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To: Theoria

have they ever read the 4th Amendment? just asking . . .

and please no legalistic BS about being in public and not having an expectation of privacy (which is between human individuals on the street, the gov’t is a different beast altogether.)


15 posted on 05/26/2018 1:56:31 PM PDT by txnativegop (The political left, Mankinds intellectual hemlock)
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To: Theoria

30,000 more guns in the hands of law-abiding citizens would be more effective.


16 posted on 05/26/2018 2:12:34 PM PDT by Disambiguator (Keepin' it analog.)
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To: Theoria

No. They’ll simply shoot em out or steal them for sale back to the city.


17 posted on 05/26/2018 2:22:05 PM PDT by SgtHooper (If you remember the 60's, YOU WEREN'T THERE!)
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To: Theoria
Remember the opening of The Wire"?

D’Angelo: You’re never gonna hit it, man.


18 posted on 05/26/2018 2:26:19 PM PDT by Sooth2222 (Hanlon's Razor: "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.")
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To: Theoria

No, but the best footage would make great gibsmedat TV


19 posted on 05/26/2018 2:27:14 PM PDT by C210N (Republicans sign check fronts; 'Rats sign check backs.)
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To: jazminerose

“No.

Chicago doesn’t have a crime problem. They have strict gun control.”

It has a filthy democrat machine problem.


20 posted on 05/26/2018 2:27:40 PM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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