Via CNN
On January 19, a team of at least 15 people assassinated Hamas leader Mahmoud al-Mabhouh. Dubai police released video footage of 11 of them. Although it was obviously a very professional operation, the 27 minutes of video is fascinating in its banality.
Team members walk through the airport, check into and out of hotels, get into [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Public Policy Failure'
Bruce Schneier: Spy cameras won't make us safer
March 2nd, 2010 · No Comments · Public Policy Failure
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CNN: Baghdad surveillance crews watch helplessly as bombs explode
September 2nd, 2009 · 4 Comments · Public Policy Failure, Public Surveillance Failure
Embedded video from CNN Video
According to CNN, 113 surveillance cameras covering 5% of Baghdad were installed to assist in "predicting terrorism". The above video shows the surveillance camera operators watching traffic and failing to identify the motives of the terrorists. When the operators fail to predict the future, they "cringe with guilt".
The center was [...]
Tags: Publically Owned CCTV
West Australia's voluntary CCTV camera registration program a failure
September 2nd, 2009 · Comments Off · Public Policy Failure
Back in April, the West Australia police launched a voluntary CCTV camera registration program called Blue Iris. I thought this was a good idea, so I wrote an entry about it. It turns out the program was either not well received, or lacking communication with local businesses. According to Australian news WA Today:
WA [...]
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UK: 1,000 public cameras to solve just one crime
August 25th, 2009 · No Comments · Public Policy Failure, Public Surveillance Failure
Detective Mick Neville from the Metropolitan Police is quickly becoming the face of change for public surveillance cameras. After a report stating CCTV cameras were only effective in parking lots, Mick Neville came out and stated that the UK police are not using the technology properly. Now Mick is saying it takes 1,000 public [...]
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Sumner County jail: shower camera mis-use leads to charges and firing
July 26th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Public Policy Failure
In a case of who's watching the watcher – the watcher has been busted. Cynthia Williams from WSMV reports:
Corrections Officer Joshua Woodard admitted to using jail security cameras to zoom in on two female inmates who were taking showers last Monday, said police.
It turned out Woodard was being watched, too; there was [...]
New trend: surveillance cameras being stolen?
July 24th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Public Policy Failure
An odd trend was emerging from this weeks news articles: public and private surveillance cameras are getting stolen. In two of these situations, arrests were made, and it was discovered that the men involved had substance abuse conditions. The third perp remains at large, although a grainy picture of him can be found on the [...]
UK Police admit they are not using public CCTV properly
July 20th, 2009 · No Comments · Public Policy Failure, Public Surveillance Failure
Detective Chief Inspector Mick Neville of the Met Police's CCTV Unit has admitted that the UK is not using CCTV camera surveillance systems properly. Mick tells Newsnight that, "CCTV is not being used to tackle crime as well as it should because some forces do not know how to use it effectively".
BBC News reports:
Most [...]
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Washington DC: Police chief Cathy Lanier calls citizens 'cowardly'
July 19th, 2009 · No Comments · Public Policy Failure
After subjecting the DC lab rats citizens to years of Red Light Camera (RLC) experiments that more than doubled accidents by 2005, DC police chief Cathy Lanier lashed out at citizens with iPhone RLC location apps calling these users "cowardly".
Hayley Peterson from the Washington Examinor reports:
Area drivers looking to outwit police speed traps and traffic cameras [...]
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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 [...]
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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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