Anti Federalist
03-08-2011, 03:43 PM
"And as they looked from pig to man and back again, they realized they could no longer tell the difference".
:mad:
SW China mega-city building huge security system
Mar 8 02:30 AM US/Eastern
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.94f20013cdd393d22cb9d0a563a113f 9.8d1&show_article=1
The mega-city of Chongqing in southwest China plans to build a $2.6 billion security system that will be one of the world's largest with 500,000 surveillance cameras, state media have said.
The computerised cameras will be managed under one network, allowing authorities and emergency services in the province-sized area of more than 30 million people to share the video feeds, the paper said.
A crackdown on organised crime two years ago in the sprawling municipality led to numerous high-level prosecutions for corruption and mafia crime that have shocked the nation as it revealed Chongqing's underworld.
It also helped make a star of Bo Xilai, Chongqing's charismatic Communist Party chief and one of a new generation of Chinese leaders who are set to take power in 2012.
Chinese authorities are increasingly enlisting technology for security purposes. Face recognition technology was widely rolled out in Beijing during the 2008 Olympic Games.
The government has expended tremendous resources to police online activity and block anti-government postings and other politically sensitive material with a system known as the "Great Firewall of China".
Freedom Tower to get its own police command center, nearly 700 cops
BY Rocco Parascandola, Alison Gendar and John Lauinger
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS
http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2011/01/18/2011-01-18_freedom_tower_will_have_nearly_700_police_offic ers_guarding_the_area_commissione.html
Originally Published:Tuesday, January 18th 2011, 11:30 AM
Updated: Tuesday, January 18th 2011, 5:02 PM
http://assets.nydailynews.com/img/2011/01/19/amd_nypd.jpg
Nearly 700 city cops will be assigned to a new command dedicated to policing the Freedom Tower and surrounding area, NYPD Commissioner Raymond Kelly said Tuesday.
The World Trade Center Command will not be fully staffed until Ground Zero is completely rebuilt.
But the 673 officers that will eventually work out of the new command will give it substantially more manpower than any other NYPD precinct.
The precincts that have the largest headcounts - the Midtown South Precinct in Manhattan and the 75th Precinct in Brooklyn - each have about 400 cops.
Officers will be assigned to the new command incrementally, but scores of cops will already be in place by the 10th anniversary of the 9-11 attacks.
"We will have a significant presence there when the memorial opens \[this\] Sept. 11," Kelly said at a Police Foundation breakfast Tuesday.
The new command will further the NYPD's effort to put lower Manhattan on lockdown by complementing the network of security cameras and license plate readers known as the "Ring of Steel."
Kelly said Tuesday that "a solid defense against terrorism" will provide a safe working environment for businesses and pedestrians, and help spur Ground Zero's rebirth.
"There's a simple lesson in this: Commercial success is not hindered but helped by responsible, thoughtful and thorough security measures," Kelly said. "That is precisely what we will provide at the World Trade Center.
"We owe no less to the people who will be there every day."
Spearheading that effort will be the head of the new command, Deputy Inspector Donald McHugh of the Counterterrorism Bureau. He is currently drawing up plans to secure the 9-11 memorial, Kelly said.
The NYPD is working to find the new command a permanent downtown base, Kelly said. In the meantime, a temporary headquarters is being planned at a housing police office in the East Village.
Since the NYPD has roughly 6,000 fewer cops now than it did shortly after 9-11, a big question surrounds the new command: Where is Kelly going to get the cops to staff it?
Police brass said it is not clear how many of the 673 cops will be new hires and how many will be pulled from other assignments.
And it appears the city budget will have to absorb any additional financial impact, since - as of right now - no federal money has been earmarked for the Ground Zero cops.
The NYPD just graduated a new Police Academy class late last month, but Kelly has recently said that budget deliberations will determine if a new class will begin later this year.
:mad:
SW China mega-city building huge security system
Mar 8 02:30 AM US/Eastern
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.94f20013cdd393d22cb9d0a563a113f 9.8d1&show_article=1
The mega-city of Chongqing in southwest China plans to build a $2.6 billion security system that will be one of the world's largest with 500,000 surveillance cameras, state media have said.
The computerised cameras will be managed under one network, allowing authorities and emergency services in the province-sized area of more than 30 million people to share the video feeds, the paper said.
A crackdown on organised crime two years ago in the sprawling municipality led to numerous high-level prosecutions for corruption and mafia crime that have shocked the nation as it revealed Chongqing's underworld.
It also helped make a star of Bo Xilai, Chongqing's charismatic Communist Party chief and one of a new generation of Chinese leaders who are set to take power in 2012.
Chinese authorities are increasingly enlisting technology for security purposes. Face recognition technology was widely rolled out in Beijing during the 2008 Olympic Games.
The government has expended tremendous resources to police online activity and block anti-government postings and other politically sensitive material with a system known as the "Great Firewall of China".
Freedom Tower to get its own police command center, nearly 700 cops
BY Rocco Parascandola, Alison Gendar and John Lauinger
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS
http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2011/01/18/2011-01-18_freedom_tower_will_have_nearly_700_police_offic ers_guarding_the_area_commissione.html
Originally Published:Tuesday, January 18th 2011, 11:30 AM
Updated: Tuesday, January 18th 2011, 5:02 PM
http://assets.nydailynews.com/img/2011/01/19/amd_nypd.jpg
Nearly 700 city cops will be assigned to a new command dedicated to policing the Freedom Tower and surrounding area, NYPD Commissioner Raymond Kelly said Tuesday.
The World Trade Center Command will not be fully staffed until Ground Zero is completely rebuilt.
But the 673 officers that will eventually work out of the new command will give it substantially more manpower than any other NYPD precinct.
The precincts that have the largest headcounts - the Midtown South Precinct in Manhattan and the 75th Precinct in Brooklyn - each have about 400 cops.
Officers will be assigned to the new command incrementally, but scores of cops will already be in place by the 10th anniversary of the 9-11 attacks.
"We will have a significant presence there when the memorial opens \[this\] Sept. 11," Kelly said at a Police Foundation breakfast Tuesday.
The new command will further the NYPD's effort to put lower Manhattan on lockdown by complementing the network of security cameras and license plate readers known as the "Ring of Steel."
Kelly said Tuesday that "a solid defense against terrorism" will provide a safe working environment for businesses and pedestrians, and help spur Ground Zero's rebirth.
"There's a simple lesson in this: Commercial success is not hindered but helped by responsible, thoughtful and thorough security measures," Kelly said. "That is precisely what we will provide at the World Trade Center.
"We owe no less to the people who will be there every day."
Spearheading that effort will be the head of the new command, Deputy Inspector Donald McHugh of the Counterterrorism Bureau. He is currently drawing up plans to secure the 9-11 memorial, Kelly said.
The NYPD is working to find the new command a permanent downtown base, Kelly said. In the meantime, a temporary headquarters is being planned at a housing police office in the East Village.
Since the NYPD has roughly 6,000 fewer cops now than it did shortly after 9-11, a big question surrounds the new command: Where is Kelly going to get the cops to staff it?
Police brass said it is not clear how many of the 673 cops will be new hires and how many will be pulled from other assignments.
And it appears the city budget will have to absorb any additional financial impact, since - as of right now - no federal money has been earmarked for the Ground Zero cops.
The NYPD just graduated a new Police Academy class late last month, but Kelly has recently said that budget deliberations will determine if a new class will begin later this year.