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Downtown Baltimore To Get Massive Surveillance Network
An anonymous reader writes "The Baltimore Sun has an article on the new 24-hour security cameras to be installed downtown and in the Inner Harbor. 'Under the Inner Harbor plan, the cameras would be able to transmit images to helicopters and, eventually, police cruisers....' How long until that ability is either abused or hijacked?"
Should be "The Baltimore Sun have an article..."
Can you people speak english?
How about increasing a police force in the city so that a presence is seen?
;-)
Oh, yeah... I think we can all agree that more cops is usually the right solution...
WOW! Just like the video cameras you can SEE things and it's a public place. I CAN'T believe it. Who is responsible for allowing this atrocity. String somebody up right now!
I also hear this "hack" can be done in almost any public place where there is enough light. What's next? Parks, Times Square, the Golden Gate Bridge? Gee Willikers!
Wait, most of you fat slobs won't be going out anytime soon anyway. Nevermind.
...over a few bad apples.
We need to think before we stick our necks our on some harebrained scheme.
The difference being that individual citizens and losers are the ones abusing the Intarweb. The government is not held to the same standards as citizens. It is expected to BEHAVE itself. This is not behaving. When citizens abuse the internet, they don't have an army and huge, intricate ministries to support their amoral behavior. This is stepping dangerously close to the precipice. This is the precursor to a certain police state. It's not a matter of IF it comes, it's a matter of WHEN it comes and whether or not people let it survive.
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really, we all know any "dangerous place" is the part of the city with all the blacks and hispanics. we ignore this simple fact even though it is a big deal.
Living in Maryland, I can see the need for cameras everywhere in the downtown area of Baltimore (not so much the inner harbor.
Yeah, no shit. The inner harbor is about the safest place to walk around in Baltimore just because it's all touristy and filled with shops so it gets lots of police protection.
Just goes to show you the preferential police state system we have here in America, where if you're rich or a business owner you can expect protection from the law, but the poor and underprivileged can expect jack. You don't see them putting up cameras in project neighborhoods which actually could benefit from them.
"When the president does it, that means it's not illegal." - Richard M. Nixon