NYC 911 to Accept Cellphone Pics and Video

SpaceAdmiral writes "New York City is developing a plan to allow images to be sent to 911 emergency operators from cellphones. This will likely give emergency operators better information to pass along to responders. They're also planning on implementing a program of street-corner video cameras, as seen in the city of London. According to John A. Feinblatt, Mayor Michael Bloomberg's criminal justice coordinator: 'The more information that the police have and the more quickly that they get it, the more likely that they are going to fight a crime.'" How practical do you think it is to expand this sort of project to cities across the country? Moreover, is it worth the expense?

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911 Abuse: The Next Generation

[bluemonq]

Considering how often we hear about people calling 911 for driving directions or other ridiculous reasons, I can't help but wonder when dispatchers will start getting stuff like tubgirl...

Re:Camera Fun

[Columcille]

Well all of this surveillance is the fault of the tin-foil-hat people. Their campaign has been far too successful and there are too many people these days wearing their hats. The aliens, working through human government leaders, need new ways to monitor our brainwave patterns. These kinds of things are just a start of the next phase of their new monitoring tactic. If you want to see less of these cameras, stop wearing your tin foil hats!

Re:Well that's shweet and all

[Breakfast Pants]

"The amount of hypocrisy on this site never ceases to amaze me."

Hey guess what, the people posting comments on this site aren't all the same person. I mean wow, the parent was like "blah blah blah" and then you were like "blah blah blah isn't a good argument!" What hypocrisy! This site just disagreed with itself!!11