How Police Use Military Technology to Secretly & Persistently Track You

["Dave Farber" <farber () gmail com>]

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> From: Dewayne Hendricks <dewayne () warpspeed com>
> Date: January 21, 2017 at 8:17:37 AM EST
> To: Multiple recipients of Dewayne-Net <dewayne-net () warpspeed com>
> Subject: [Dewayne-Net] How Police Use Military Technology to Secretly & Persistently Track You
> Reply-To: dewayne-net () warpspeed com
>
> How Police Use Military Technology to Secretly & Persistently Track You
> By Gaius Publius
> Jan 13 2017
> <http://downwithtyranny.blogspot.com/2017/01/how-police-use-military-technology-to.html>
>
> We could make some grand statement about the nature of surveillance in 21st Century America — there's certainly a 
> grand and frightening statement to be made — but that would obscure the detail. (Do note, though, when you watch the 
> videos, how much the American need for extreme Public Safety — "Daddy, keep us safe" — is invoked in justifying these 
> intrusions.)
>
> That said, from a recent Rolling Stone report on surveillance in Baltimore, here is just the detail, how Americans 
> are being watched by cops of all stripes.
>
> ▪ Large urban areas are constantly photographed from 10,000 feet. Using multiple cameras in a plane flying at 10,000 
> feet and computer-driven "image stitching" software, police can photograph all open traffic and human interactions in 
> five-mile square urban area for hours — and archive everything for later use.
>
> This creates a storable, searchable, time-lapse wide-area "movie" of all street movement. Watch the video above to 
> see it in action. Note that only at the end of the video are privacy issues even mentioned. Note also that the 
> "events" discussed aren't just planned events, like parades and demonstration, but also events not announced ahead of 
> time, like murders. "Pre-event forensics" assumes constant "just in case" surveillance.
>
> This kind of surveillance is happening now in at least one American city, Baltimore. Benjamin Powers, writing at 
> Rolling Stone (emphasis mine):
> Eyes Over Baltimore: How Police Use Military Technology to Secretly Track You
>
> "They view people as enemy combatants," says activist, as cops adopt surveillance, tracking, facial recognition 
> programs designed for war zones 
>
> When protesters took to the street after police shot and killed Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, they were 
> greeted by law enforcement in full body armor, flanked by armored vehicles. In the two and a half years and countless 
> shootings since, militarized police have become an all too familiar sight. In response, citizens have overwhelmingly 
> begun to film these interactions on their smartphones, making the technology the eyes of our nation. But as we watch 
> the police, they also watch us – only they don't use an iPhone. Often, they use military grade surveillance equipment 
> that gives them a much broader view than simple cell phone cameras ever could.
>
> The city of Baltimore has, in many ways, become ground zero for the military surveillance technology that is slowly 
> making its way from the battlefields into the hands of police departments across the country. From January to October 
> of last year, police monitored Baltimore's citizens using a Cessna airplane outfitted with military grade 
> surveillance technologies multiple times, without their knowledge, that were developed for overseas war zones. The 
> Baltimore Police Department has used surveillance technology such as large-scale aerial surveillance, advanced cell 
> phone tracking and facial recognition technology on Baltimore's citizens, yet these technologies have had little to 
> no oversight from city government, and most have a disproportionate impact on communities of color. Examined 
> together, these surveillance technologies demonstrate an extended record of secret surveillance by the Baltimore 
> Police Department. In August of 2016, the Department of Justice reported that the BPD needed greater oversight and 
> transparency.
>
> Yet police using military surveillance technology is increasingly common. 
> There's much more about these cameras, and who is financing their use, in the article. But cameras are just the start.
>
> [snip]
>
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