Police Surveillance Technology: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO) (youtube.com)
For a couplefew years, late night talk show hosts have been taking up the task of delivering news and education about the government's/bigtech's continued encroachment on civil rights, dedicating large chunks of their shows to this instead of comedy, although they successfully mix in jokes into these presentations, too.
Mayor of LV says they're watching everyone all the time, ‘essentially Big Brother on steroids.’
The police, using the cities cameras which are everywhere, zoom on a guy who did nothing, just walking, becaues he had a ‘suspicious bulge’ in his jacket. They followed everywhere he went and watched everything he did for 15 minutes.
There is a company called Fusus that does connectivity for surveillance cameras in private businesses etc. They link those systems with the police so police can click of a button request footage and send that private footage to police, ie no warrant rigamarole. Basically the police just use the private businesses as free storage and free police work. They are letting Amazon's Ring cameras livestream to police. Renalto in Cali has made signing up with Futus and policy-making so that security cameras ‘shall be accessible to tthe Rialto PD through FUSUS' contingent to setting up a business there.
Shotspotter, a similar company but for audio not video, sets up microphones all over cities. Data in news reporting by Fox9 showed ‘MPD responded to Shotspotter 8500 times’ and ‘80% of the time no evidence of a gun-related crime.’ The purpose of the microphones, so they say to get them installed, is to listen for gunshots. Only 32 of those 8500 let to an arrest, ie 0.4%.
Automatic licence plate readers, Flock, record every car that passes and record the location, shared with police (govrenment), no warrant required. 37% of ALPRs are misreads, pulling over drivers wrongly, including that footage of pulling parents out of their own car and pinning them on the ground with their guns on them, their kids also pinned on the concrete hands behind their backs in a parking lot or something. The stolen vehicle was a non-SUV vehicle from another state, and they were in a SUV in Colorado.
If you are at a protest or abortion clinic, yeah, you're recorded. ICE has access, revoked now? but still able through local law enforcement.
Stingray sniffing all cellphones in an area. It can't be targetted, it has to pull in all internet connecting devices in range. Cell-site simulators, we don't know how often they do it because FBI forced ‘secrecy obligaitons’ on usage by police departments, so they can't tell the public if they want to.
All these systems spill into predicive policing systems. Santa Cruz started predictive policing in 2011. Other cities since then include LA, Chicago, St Louis, Atlanta, and Philly.
One police officer in Oliver's videos criticized predictive policing, ie sending police to (sometimes wrongly) somebody's house to harass them and check up on them dozens of times, ‘where they are likely to engage people in a negative way, then that becomes a problem.’ The effect is also partially racist, which maybe should activate blacks and Jews a bit more but really isn't germaine (and is divisive) to the real problem which applies to everyone.
We now also have dozens of public cases of police officers using ALP to stalk romantic interests.
It takes a lot of work currently to expose what systems cities etc are using. Too much work to expose, said Oliver.
Atlas Of Surveillance catalogs all the techs beings used in your area.