NYPD's 'Operation Sentinel' To Track EVERYTHING

["Richard M. Smith" <rms () computerbytesman com>]

http://wcbstv.com/cbs2crew/operation.sentinel.nypd.2.793133.html
 
Aug 13, 2008 6:21 am US/Eastern 

NYPD's 'Operation Sentinel' To Track EVERYTHING


Radiation Sensors, Surveillance Cameras Used To Screen & Follow Every
Vehicle Entering Lower Manhattan


Plan Aims To Provide Security Blanket Against Terrorist Attack

Reporting
Marcia Kramer  
NEW YORK (CBS) ― It's called "Operation Sentinel" and it proves just how far
the NYPD will go to protect this city from terrorists. The plan involves
some high-tech tracking that is coming under fire from some groups. 

New York City is going to great lengths to make sure that bomb-toting
terrorists can't reach us. 

"New York City is something special," Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Tuesday.
"It's not just a very big city in this world. It is, in many senses, the
iconic city. It represents Western Democracy. 

As part of the plan the NYPD is creating a huge buffer zone, working with
cops in a 50-mile radius of the city. Officials in New Jersey, Connecticut,
Pennsylvania and Long Island are given radiation detectors to stop
terrorists as far away from New York City as possible. 

Police also plan to track every vehicle that enters Manhattan. 

"We're going to be adding cameras as we go forward," NYPD Commissioner Ray
Kelly said. 

That part of that plan calls for photographing and scanning license plates
of cars and trucks at all bridges and tunnels. Even small ones like the
Willis Avenue Bridge will also be used to detect radiation. 

"I don't think it's hyperbole to call this Big Brotherish," said Christopher
Dunn of the New York Civil Liberties Union. "The New York City Police
Department is creating a huge computer database of the movement of everyone
in a vehicle in Manhattan." 

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