Five months ago, a mentally disturbed man entered Laguardia Airport with a fake bomb attached to his body. The security officers tackled and subdued the wanne-be terrorist and then looked for the footage from the surveillance camera. It turns out the groggy cameras were broken, pointing the wrong direction, or had very grainy footage. Oy! [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Public Surveillance Failure'
Newark Airport surveillance cameras don't record
January 6th, 2010 · No Comments · Public Surveillance Failure
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
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 [...]
Tags: Publically Owned CCTV
Laguardia Airport security cameras missed "bomb"
August 12th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Public Surveillance Failure
Bruce Schneier coined the term security theater. Security theater is defined as, "Ostensible security measures which have little real influence on security whilst being publicly visible and designed to demonstrate to the lesser-informed that countermeasures have been considered".
Philip Messing and Murray Weiss from the NY Post wrote about an "fake bomb" incident at [...]
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:
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New Jersey police officer pounds schizophrenic man on CCTV
June 12th, 2009 · No Comments · Public Surveillance Failure
This privately owned CCTV camera was supposed to monitor patrons outside of Lawrence's Grill and Bar. It soon served a second purpose — as contradictory evidence to an altercation with a local Passaic police officer.
Holloway, who is on medication for schizophrenia, joined more than 80 others outside that community's city hall Saturday to demand [...]
Do you recognize these grainy perps?
June 4th, 2009 · No Comments · Public Surveillance Failure
A plea from from the Fairfax House in York and the Peterborough police are asking for help identify these "grainy perps". One perp stole a 300-year-old brass barometer, and the biker is wanted in connection with a rape.
The United Kingdom has over 4 million public cameras which have been pronounced ineffective by researchers. However, that [...]
New Orleans crime cameras: an unnatural disaster
June 3rd, 2009 · 2 Comments · Public Surveillance Failure
In the post-Hurricane Katrina environment, Mayor Ray Nagin decided to install crime cameras at any cost.
It all started back in 2006 when an odd camera supplier arrangement led to a 2009 lawsuit from Southern Electronics and Active Solutions.
Documents produced in a civil lawsuit by spurned camera vendors Southern Electronics and Active Solutions have shed [...]
United Kingdom: public surveillance cameras ineffective
May 19th, 2009 · No Comments · Public Surveillance Failure
Where do CCTV cameras have the biggest impact? According to a 2009 report that answer may be towards cutting vehicle crime in parking lots.
Brandon Welsh and David Farrington, pioneers in surveillance research, through the Campbell Collaboration published an analysis of 44 CCTV effectiveness reports reports The Guardian.
The use of closed-circuit television in city and town [...]
Tags: Publically Owned CCTV
Gun shot detectors: Pushing murder into the next town?
May 13th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Public Policy Failure, Public Surveillance Failure
This is a story of three neighboring communities with higher than average crime rates: East Orange, Newark, and Irvington. All three communities are located in New Jersey.
It started in 2007 when East Orange declared that their embrace of CCTV and gunshot detectors lowered crime rates and murders from 2003 to 2006. During that very [...]
Tags: Another Politician Claims Success·Gun Shot Detectors·Publically Owned CCTV
