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Chicago plans 2,000 camera big brother spy network
A surveillance system that uses 2,000 remote-control cameras and motion-sensing software to spot crimes or terrorist acts as they happen is being planned for the city
If that sounds a little like Big Brother is watching, he might be.
"Cameras are the equivalent of hundreds of sets of eyes," Mayor Richard Daley said Thursday. "They are the next best thing to having police officers stationed at every potential trouble spot."
The system would exceed existing projects in how it would tie cameras to emergency operations, said Ron Huberman, executive director of the city's Office of Emergency Management.
Neither the courts nor the American Civil Liberties Union (news - web sites) have objected to cameras in public places, saying there is no expectation of privacy on a city street.
"We live in a video world," said Ed Yohnka of the ACLU of Illinois.
The high-definition, motorized cameras can rotate 360 degrees and include night-vision capability. They will be mounted on buildings and utility poles across the city.
Most are already in use - 30 by the police department and 1,000 at O'Hare International Airport. Other cameras are on elevated train platforms and the city's 600 schools. An additional 250 cameras yet to be installed will raise the number to more than 2,000.
The city is also considering allowing private companies to join the network, for a fee. Officials said the system size is nearly limitless.
The linchpin in the network - paid for with a $5 million grant from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and scheduled to be up by March 2006 - is software designed to detect "suspicious" activity.
For instance, if someone left a suitcase in a stairwell, the software would engage any camera within range and alert a worker at the emergency operations center. It would do the same if an individual rushed up to another and dragged him away. A series of cameras could track fleeing criminals, and 911 operators would be able to give police descriptions of suspects.
Huberman said the cameras will also allow city departments to be more vigilant. Public works will be able to spot a broken water main instantly or the transportation department can see traffic jams developing.
"It really adds a whole new tool to public safety," Huberman said. "It gives us a tremendous early warning and detection capacity."
Chicago is the first U.S. city to install such a network.
Officials here said they studied systems used by Las Vegas hotels and casinos, as well as the Pentagon (news - web sites) and the city of London, where it's said that the average resident is viewed by 300 cameras a day.
Baltimore is trying to build a network with around-the-clock surveillance cameras. Other cities have used them during big events.
Police in Tampa tried the cameras, using a mug shot database and facial recognition software to identify criminals on the street. It abandoned the effort after two years because it never identified a wanted criminal.
Huberman said Chicago considered face-recognition technology but rejected it as inefficient and immature. But, he said, it's a possibility in the future.
"Chicago has a history of pioneering 911 operations," Huberman said. "Now, we're stepping off in the direction where 911 operation is going to be in the future."
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Re: Chicago plans 2,000 camera big brother spy network
10 Sep 2004
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10 Sep 2004
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10 Sep 2004
Re: Chicago plans 2,000 camera big brother spy network
11 Sep 2004
this should be ammusing.
Re: Chicago plans 2,000 camera big brother spy network
11 Sep 2004
Actually, since the police control the cameras, they can also shut them off whenever they want. Or they can disappear the evidence. All the more reason for Copwatch!
I've scooped this story already.
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11 Sep 2004
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11 Sep 2004
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12 Sep 2004
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13 Sep 2004
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13 Sep 2004
Re: Chicago plans 2,000 camera big brother spy network
27 Sep 2004
pig, die alone.
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27 Sep 2004
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27 Sep 2004
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27 Sep 2004
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27 Sep 2004
pretty much bet the city of evanston is going to have a hard time getting devine to prosecute those evanston cops.
if he does he'll have to prosecute the hundreds of CPD he's covering for now. he'll probably delay it forever, or find a way out of it altogether.
that's his m.o.
jon, buddy, you don't know what's up. or, you do know, and you think we're a bunch of idiots.
Re: Chicago plans 2,000 camera big brother spy network
27 Sep 2004
"pretty much bet the city of evanston is going to have a hard time getting devine to prosecute those evanston cops." Devine already charged them with felonys. I'm no Devine fan but thats hardly sitting on his hands and thats the point:Would Devine have gone this far if the police didn't turn over thier own video as evidence against themselves!
"jon, buddy, you don't know what's up. or, you do know, and you think we're a bunch of idiots" Are those my only two choices? Actually, I just put this out as food for thought to be discussed openly. Isn't that the point? I wouldn't call anyone an idiot for thier opinions for or against these cameras.
Re: Chicago plans 2,000 camera big brother spy network
27 Sep 2004
Re: Chicago plans 2,000 camera big brother spy network
27 Sep 2004
cjl, you are right.
but why this thread?
kerry voted for the authorization and was promised conditions. then bush broke the conditions and pushed forward. why is that so hard for kerry to articulate? and the media to report?
hmmm... fascism? could be.
check this cool site.. then start a new thread
:)
www.udecide.org/
Re: Chicago plans 2,000 camera big brother spy network
27 Sep 2004
"As a judge around here once said, you can indict a ham sandwich,"
I guess we'll wait and see.
Re: Chicago plans 2,000 camera big brother spy network
27 Sep 2004
Re: Chicago plans 2,000 camera big brother spy network
27 Sep 2004
here's a link to a bunch of other links regarding the coming october surprise.
we all feel it.
lumpen.com/magazine/92/octobersurprise.html
Re: Chicago plans 2,000 camera big brother spy network
28 Sep 2004
... god said
28 Sep 2004
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28 Sep 2004
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28 Sep 2004
Daley's Spy Web
28 Sep 2004
Anyone who suggests this movie is a "coming of age" film or even a comedy, needs to slow down and think about it. Though the movie offers several moments which inspire laughter, it is truly one of the darkest, saddest, most disturbing movies a thinking audience is ever likely to see. It is filled with poetry, not in its language, but in its deep symbolism and in its trust in its audience to come to their own conclusions. On the surface, the story comes across as a Bush era version of The Graduate, in that the Dustin Hoffman character (in this case, Largeman, played by Zach Braff) has been numbed by lithium for most of his life. From the opening sequence, during which Largeman seems indifferent toward the plight of those around him, indeed, even to his own demise, as the plane he is on crashes to earth while he adjusts the air blower above his head.
Largeman's hopes for a normal life outside of the lithium stupor are about as real as the get rich quick schemes which are a running theme throughout the film. He gets involved with a compulsive liar. He begins hanging out with the derelicts, drug addicts and thieves he knew from childhood. He fools himself into thinking he didn't cripple his mom, but that it was the fault of a half inch piece of plastic. He knows that his father murdered his mother, that his best friend is a grave robber, that he is about to die in a plane wreck, but he is too emotionally numb to do anything about it.
There isn't a wasted frame in the entire picture. Everything represents something else, but this thick symbolism blends in, going unnoticed at first, like Largeman's new shirt. A flaming arrow falls at the feet of his girlfriend, representing both cupid as well as the descent into the abyss.
Ooh, wait, I'm sorry, I got distracted.
Let me tell you. If you want to get away with something, just do it in a way in which anyone who tries to describe what you did sounds insane, or sounds like a conspiracy theorist. If you are going to lie, make it such a BIG, complicated lie that anyone who tries to explain it will sound like they are wearing a aluminum foil hat. If you want to do something evil, make it so incredibly, unbelievably evil, that very few will even suspect that man is capable of such a thing, and then nobody will even suspect you, let alone prosecute you. Hitler knew all about this philosophy. Bush knows all about it as well. He will act in the most nonsensical way that anyone who tries to protest what he is doing will of course be met with one word: NONSENSE!
Oil. $50 a barrel? Gee. I guess that Iraq war thing didn't help.
Re: Chicago plans 2,000 camera big brother spy network
28 Sep 2004
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28 Sep 2004
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Re: Chicago plans 2,000 camera big brother spy network
29 Sep 2004
We are either expected to believe that our government is incredibly stupid and incompetent, or, more likely, an incident was needed, to justify an invasion of Iraq. But the first bombing attempt on the WTC failed to have the impact on society to justify a massive invasion. That would take something bigger. A successful attack on the WTC possibly.
All the spy cameras in the world won't save you if the CIA is working as the silent partner.
Re: Chicago plans 2,000 camera big brother spy network
29 Sep 2004
www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2003/0312.bergen.html
say cheese
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29 Sep 2004
Re: Chicago plans 2,000 camera big brother spy network
30 Sep 2004
why, because the discussion is critical of mayor daley?
same ol' cj.
what do you get from that crook?
Re: Chicago plans 2,000 camera big brother spy network
30 Sep 2004
Re: Chicago plans 2,000 camera big brother spy network
30 Sep 2004
"I know that this doesn't have anything to do with that but I'm just pissed off."
"Ooh, wait, I'm sorry, I got distracted"
No shit. Why don't you tell us about the first time you saw Tron.
Re: Chicago plans 2,000 camera big brother spy network
30 Sep 2004
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30 Sep 2004
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30 Sep 2004
Re: Chicago plans 2,000 camera big brother spy network
30 Sep 2004
not 'what do you get from that, crook?'
rather 'what do you get from that crook?'
see the comma, you brilliant poet/linguist?
maybe you are a crook though, maybe that's why you misread it.
why don't you start a thread about the cubs game you dork.
Re: Chicago plans 2,000 camera big brother spy network
30 Sep 2004
Learn how to write, you moron. Learn how to express yourself so that people can understand you, especially if you are going to sling insults. Shit, you're the one who "changed the subject" from a discussion (be it surreal) about "1984" to a nasty name calling fest. Fuck you. The day I let scum like you dictate where and when I can post my thoughts, is the day I'll hang up my poetry hat.
And I know how you feel. Some fucker keeps coming into MY pages here and posting all sorts of SHIT when we're trying to discuss our relevant local issues. Doesn't feel good. Does it?
Re: Chicago plans 2,000 camera big brother spy network
01 Oct 2004
i guess maybe if i was a smackhead i'd also be on the take.
wow dude, you're gone, it's over ain't it?
Re: Chicago plans 2,000 camera big brother spy network
01 Oct 2004
"wow dude, you're gone, it's over ain't it?"
I would ask for an explanation of what that means, but I fear it would take you several posts before you managed to make yourself clear, so I'll spare you the effort.
So, by all means, continue your discussion, but what comes around goes around, and if you want people to respect your space, start respecting other people's spaces.
Bye.
Re: Chicago plans 2,000 camera big brother spy network
01 Oct 2004
you can't understand them?
you need long boring, senseless, movie script explanations?
Re: Chicago plans 2,000 camera big brother spy network
01 Oct 2004
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01 Oct 2004
money for cameras? bet on it.
there is no shortage of money in government for control mechanisms. especially here in chicago. he'll get it from some fascist corporation, and pocket some change.
if money is needed for drugs and guns to set up people, or just to make more money, it's there. more riot gear for the police state? no problem. more sweetheart contracts for daley's buddies, where millions of dollars disappear? easy pickins'. wads of cash and ghost payrolling for daley's shill network? count on it.
schools? sell them to the corporations cuz there's no money.
revitalization? privatize it and colonize the poor communities, cuz there's no money.
hospitals/clinics? just build one oversize hospital because it's good for pork, name it after the biggest uncle tom this side of the smokies. forget about small, accesible clinics, spread out over the region with a focus on prevention and nutrition. that's not good for business, we need sick people to profit off of.
yes.. there is money for anything to keep you under control.. for nothing that will empower you.
Re: Chicago plans 2,000 camera big brother spy network
04 Oct 2004
The Zionist army’s attacks on residential areas in Gaza reached a peak over the past week.
So far, at least 63 defenseless people from Gaza have been martyred in Israel’s military operation, codenamed Days of Penitence.
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon warned that the operations would continue until the leaders of Hamas, Islamic Jihad, and the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades were completely destroyed.
The Zionist regime’s attacks mainly targeted the Jabaliya, Beit Hanoun, and Beit Lahiya refugee camps, because, according to Sharon, these three camps are sheltering the largest number of members of Palestinian resistance group.
Sharon has ordered an intensification of attacks on residential areas in the southern Gaza Strip while most of the world is focused on the Iraq crisis and the U.S. presidential election campaign.
However, after their session on Sunday, Arab League representatives called on the UN Security Council to hold an emergency meeting to study the situation in Palestine, but the United States threatened to veto any Security Council resolution against the Zionist regime.
This shows that Sharon is taking advantage of the current situation in the United States, well aware of the fact that the Republican and Democratic candidates both feel they must win a significant proportion of the Jewish vote.
Indeed, U.S. President George W. Bush has refused to adopt a tough position toward Sharon’s crimes in order to gain votes in the Jewish community.
The charged atmosphere in Iraq and the increase in attacks on Iraqi cities by U.S. troops have focused international attention on the Iraqi crisis, leaving Sharon free to pursue his evil goals.
The shameful situation in the occupied territories, the lack of international will to halt the Israeli army’s attacks against Palestinian civilians, and the deafening silence of the international community give credence to the notion that the Palestinians have no alternative but to continue resistance.
Although Hamas recently announced its interest in declaring a ceasefire on condition that the Zionist army halt its military operations, Sharon seems to be more interested in seeking a military victory, albeit a temporary one, before a possible withdrawal from the Gaza Strip.
Sharon believes that withdrawing Israeli troops from Gaza without suppressing the Palestinian resistance would be a military defeat similar to the defeat that the Zionist army experienced in the year 2000 in southern Lebanon.
Therefore, by taking advantage of the silence of international organizations, the Israeli prime minister has begun efforts to physically eliminate all Intifada leaders and thus appear victorious in the eyes of extremist Jews.
If the UN Security Council fails to make the right decision about the crimes of the Israeli army at this sensitive juncture, violence will surely spread throughout the occupied territories. And if that happened, the international body would certainly lose face in the international arena more than ever before.
Re: Chicago plans 2,000 camera big brother spy network
04 Oct 2004
that's really good information, which i was not aware of.. there is no press on this in the mainstream..
so why not post this somewhere where people will see it?
Re: Chicago plans 2,000 camera big brother spy network
04 Oct 2004
Iran accused Israel of committing genocide in the Gaza Strip and called for international intervention to halt the latest operation, while key Western ally Jordan warned the arrogance of the Jewish state was fuelling retaliation around the region.
Palestinian Negotiations Minister Saeb Erekat said the lack of international reaction to the Israeli onslaught was encouraging Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to continue the onslaught.
“The absence of international reaction is encouraging Ariel Sharon to assert that the operation will continue, although the situation is getting worse and the Palestinian people are enduring massacres,” he said.
Arab League representatives decided that the 22-member bloc would make a joint appeal at the United Nations for urgent action to halt Israel’s “continuing war of extermination against the Palestinian people.”
“The genocide of Palestinians and violations of international laws by the Israelis means that action from the international community is needed to defend the defenseless people of Palestine,” the Iranian Foreign Ministry said.
“The brutal slaughter of innocent people in the Gaza Strip has further exposed the inhuman nature of the Zionist regime’s leaders to the public,” ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi told the official IRNA news agency.
Iran does not recognize the Zionist state, which has regarded the Islamic republic as its No. 1 enemy since the overthrow of Saddam Hussein’s regime in Iraq last year.
However neighboring Jordan, which signed a 1994 peace treaty with Israel, was also forthright in its condemnation.
“Israel’s arrogance and the pursuit of its policy of assassinations and mass killings of Palestinian civilians as well as the destruction of property and infrastructure in the Palestinian territories does not serve the peace process,” King Abdallah told a visiting British delegation.
“Such action will increase the cycle of violence and fuel the phenomenon of extremism in the region,” the official Petra news agency quoted him as saying.
King Abdallah’s comments were all the more striking as he has won plaudits in Israel for his outspoken criticism of the Palestinian leadership in recent weeks.
The king echoed that criticism yesterday calling on the Palestinian Authority “to settle its internal disputes and close its ranks in order to achieve the aspirations of the Palestinian people and to become an effective partner in the peace process”.
Another Western ally, Kuwait, hit out at what it described as Israel’s “criminal actions” against the Palestinian people and demanded international action to stop to them. “The Israeli policy of committing more killings and the destruction of property will lead the region to more violence and instability,” ministers said after their weekly meeting.
“The Cabinet calls on the international community, particularly the quartet members (the European Union, Russia, the United Nations and the United States) and the UN Security Council, to intervene immediately and decisively to put an end to the Israeli criminal actions.”
In Cairo, the Arab League said there would be an “urgent appeal to the General Assembly and or Security Council” for the “international protection that is indispensable” to the Palestinian people.
Arab ambassadors called on the quartet to “to live up to its responsibility and move rapidly to take a decisive stand to end the Israeli aggression”.
The United States, Israel’s main ally, has expressed “regret” over civilian casualties from the offensive and called on Israel to use “only proportional force”.
But it has declined to condemn the incursion, saying that Israel had a right to defend itself.
Erekat told AFP the lack of stronger world condemnation was encouraging the Israeli premier to press the vast operation.
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