New York Plans Surveillance Veil for Downtown

[LibertyEagle]

"By the end of this year, police officials say, more than 100 cameras will have begun monitoring cars moving through Lower Manhattan, the beginning phase of a London-style surveillance system that would be the first in the United States.

The Lower Manhattan Security Initiative, as the plan is called, will resemble London’s so-called Ring of Steel, an extensive web of cameras and roadblocks designed to detect, track and deter terrorists. British officials said images captured by the cameras helped track suspects after the London subway bombings in 2005 and the car bomb plots last month.

If the program is fully financed, it will include not only license plate readers but also 3,000 public and private security cameras below Canal Street, as well as a center staffed by the police and private security officers, and movable roadblocks."

For the rest:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/09/nyregion/09ring.html?_r=2&hp&oref=slogin&oref=slogin

[UtahApocalypse]

Note: Cancel all trips to New York.

[SwordOfShannarah]

The great thing about security cameras is they are defeated with a can of spray paint.

[SeanEdwards]

Note to self: Comb hair before engaging in outdoor sex in Manhattan.

[Freedom]

The Lower Manhattan Security Initiative, as the plan is called, will resemble London’s so-called Ring of Steel, an extensive web of cameras and roadblocks designed to detect, track and deter terrorists.

How does this prevent hijacked airliners from hitting buildings?

[Mesogen]

The only thing a camera does is it gets a record of an event (maybe). You still get mugged. You still get murdered. You still get blown up. But now they have it on video!

[PatriotOne]

Anyione else remember that movie called Demolition Man (1993) with Sylvester Stallone, Sandra Bullock, Wesley Snipes?

Everyone was microchipped, talking surveillance camera's were everywhere, Taco Bell was the only restaurant, only no-contact sex was allowed with the use of some kind of brain stimulator helmet to produce pleasure, etc. Total Orwellian society's.

The direction we are moving in reminds me of this movie.

[ShaneC]

Taco Bell was the only restaurant

NOOOOOoooooo!!!!

[LibertyBelle]

Anyione else remember that movie called Demolition Man (1993) with Sylvester Stallone, Sandra Bullock, Wesley Snipes?

Everyone was microchipped, talking surveillance camera's were everywhere, Taco Bell was the only restaurant, only no-contact sex was allowed with the use of some kind of brain stimulator helmet to produce pleasure, etc. Total Orwellian society's.

The direction we are moving in reminds me of this movie.

Ahhh, I can accept everything except for Taco Hell being the only restaurant. That is unacceptable! :p

That is one issue I will take up arms for! :D