New South Wales is starting a great trend: they are asking business owners to register their surveillance systems with the police.
By registering on the NSW police website, local business owners will not only provide potentially crime-solving footage to police, but they will also cut the time it takes for officers to retrieve footage from [...]
Entries from July 15th, 2009
New South Wales, AU: register your surveillance cameras with police
July 15th, 2009 · 3 Comments · Public-Private Success
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Washington state: no fence, no conviction
July 10th, 2009 · No Comments · Private Surveillance Leading Practice, Public Policy Failure
According to mynorthwest.com:
A man suspected of stealing aluminum auto wheels from a rural business wasn't guilty of a criminal break-in because the property wasn't fenced on all sides, the state Supreme Court ruled Thursday.
The unanimous ruling overturned the burglary conviction of Roger Dean Engel, who was captured on surveillance video in the outdoor yard [...]
Tags: Privately owned CCTV
East Orange, NJ: gunshot detection secures an arrest
July 9th, 2009 · 4 Comments · Public Surveillance Leading Practice
According to the New Jersey Newsroom, the East Orange Police Department announced the arrest of an East Orange man in connection with Monday's fatal shooting of a 19-year-old boy.
Through the gunshot detection system, East Orange Police were able to swarm the shooting scene within minutes. Sanders was spotted only blocks away fleeing from the area. [...]
Tags: Gun Shot Detectors
NYTIMES: Growing Presence in the Courtroom: Cellphone Data as Witness
July 6th, 2009 · No Comments · Private Surveillance Leading Practice
From the NY Times:
For more than a decade, investigators have been able to match an antenna tower with a cellphone signal to track a phone’s location to within a radius of about 200 yards in urban areas and up to 20 miles in rural areas. Now many more cellphones are equipped with global-positioning technology that [...]
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New Orleans: Red light cameras have no respect for the dead
July 6th, 2009 · No Comments · Public Policy Failure
New Orleans + Camera = Murphy's law
If things couldn't look any worse for New Orleans and their publicly managed camera initiatives, MSNBC reports that funeral procession drivers will get tickets when they proceed through red lights.
Weeks later, a ticket from the red-light camera at that intersection made it to Rittenberg's home and she attempted to [...]
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Pontiac, MI: Teacher charged with assault
July 6th, 2009 · No Comments · No Verdict
// Pontiac, MI is the latest city to follow the 3 step shuffle:
Install a pricey surveillance system
Capture city employee doing something wrong
Tax payers foot massive settlement fee
According to WXYZ:
The incident happened at Pontiac Central High School. The teen, Davion Hudson, is standing in the hallway before the start of class in the morning. His world [...]
Tags: City Employees Caught On Cam·Publically Owned CCTV·Self Indicting
Audio-less surveillance camera creates ambiguous evidence
July 5th, 2009 · No Comments · No Verdict
According to the Mercury News, an Atherton public works supervisor claims woman set him up for harassment lawsuit underneath a indoor surveillance camera.
An Atherton public works supervisor on trial for allegedly grabbing a female officer inside the town police station testified Tuesday that she took him to a break room and inexplicably pushed him away [...]
Parking lot surveillance is key to successful crime reduction and convictions
July 1st, 2009 · No Comments · Private Surveillance Leading Practice, Public Surveillance Leading Practice
Another recent news article from the UK is providing further evidence that cameras focused on parking lots are reducing or stopping vehicle crime.
A SECURITY camera installed at a Crewkerne car park has had a dramatic impact on crime. Its arrival came following a number of incidents over the past year at the car park in [...]
