“There used to be an old police saying, ‘If you robbed a bank, please drive carefully,’” former NYPD Detective Sergeant and Bronx Cold Case Squad commander Joseph Giacalone told Quartz. Giacalone that if a getaway driver didn’t do anything to attract the attention of police and get pulled over, they usually had a half-decent chance of fleeing.
“But that’s no longer in effect because you can drive slow, you can stop at every red light, but these license plate readers and surveillance cameras track your every movement.”
According to recently released US federal contracting data, the Drug Enforcement Administration will be expanding the footprint of its nationwide surveillance network with the purchase of “multiple” trailer-mounted speed displays “to be retrofitted as mobile LPR [License Plate Reader] platforms.” The DEA is buying them from RU2 Systems Inc., a private Mesa, Arizona company. But that’s not all. Two other related contracts have been found, as reported by Quartz.
The two contracts show that the DEA has hired a small machine shop in California, and another in Virginia, to conceal the readers within the signs. An RU2 representative said the company providing the LPR devices themselves is a Canadian firm called Genetec. The DEA’s most recent budget describes the program as “a federation of independent federal, state, local, and tribal law enforcement license plate readers linked into a cooperative system, designed to enhance the ability of law enforcement agencies to interdict drug traffickers, money launderers or other criminal activities on high drug and money trafficking corridors and other public roadways throughout the U.S.” But focuses primarily along the southwest border region, and the country’s northeast and southeast corridors.
The problem, however, is a big one.
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7 comments:
Dave T: Idiots in government from the Communist Peoples Republic of Maryland will just love this! Oooooh, more control and power. Never enough of that to fill their greed.
Wrong
Don't Speed.
Good, that keeps us honest right? Hell no! Just gives us the opportunity to check our speedometers!
Greed? Geez Dave T. Of course MD has never passed on a dollar on the ground.
Challenge here nationally today is the price of security, feeling safe has a very large price tag.
Place a guess at what this nation has spent on security since 9/12/01? The number would be very numbing of course. BUT its the price of doing business!
Some say the bad guys lost long ago. Looking at the nations debt, I beg to differ!
Those Signs Showing Your Speed May Be Spying On You OR may not
1:19 You may still be getting your picture taken and data stored if you are driving below the speed limit, even if your wife is reading the Bible in the passenger seat and you're on the way to church.
The issue is that data collection is occurring against all drivers, and it's very uncertain if data on non-speeders is being promptly discarded.
That's the real issue!
Every where you go there is a camera on you. They seem only efficient at blurry capture of innocent people. When it comes down to actually catching people breaking the law they are hardly effective.
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