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Houston Expands Downtown Surveillance, Unsure If It Helps

Posted by timothy on from the someone-is-getting-fat-on-this dept.

SpaceGhost writes "The Associated Press reports that the Houston (Texas) Police will be adding 180 surveillance cameras in the downtown area, bringing the total to close to 1000. While most cover public areas (stadiums, theater district) the police suggest that Houston also has more 'critical infrastructure' (energy companies) than other cities. Interestingly AP points out that 'Officials say data is not kept to determine if the cameras are driving down crime.' Didn't London face the same issue?"

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  1. Re:Houston, We Have a Problem... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    A woman I fucked went to school in England, and she told me this story about how she was talking to a cop about the surveillance cameras and the cop told her that it's not like the movies where there are guys watching 20 monitors at all times, in fact the cops rarely monitor the cameras at all. They only use them after an incident happened, when they rewind and then look over the past footage for evidence.

    And damn, I miss that girl -- I wanted to breed with her to a level so deep that it goes down to the DNA of it, our bodies intertwined like the spiral helices of our merging genetic material.

    -- Ethanol-fueled