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 [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Privately owned CCTV'
New Jersey police officer pounds schizophrenic man on CCTV
June 12th, 2009 · No Comments · Public Surveillance Failure
Vulnerable Edmonton cabbie sues over false sexual assault allegations
May 26th, 2009 · No Comments · Private Surveillance Leading Practice
A smart Edmonton cabbie installed a CCTV audio/video system in his cab in case anything went wrong.
Meet four drunk ladies. These ladies wanted to break the law and smoke in the cab. When they couldn't get their way, they left the vehicle without paying and told their friends the cabbie tried to sexually assault [...]
Tags: Privately owned CCTV
CCTV footage as self-indicting evidence
May 2nd, 2009 · No Comments · No Verdict
Surveillance video is supposed to keep the population safer. At least that's the argument. Lately, however, camera footage is surfacing that shows that our civil servants aren't so.. well, um, civil.
When Evidence From Surveillance Cameras Leads to Charges Against Officers
Two Officers Accused of Raping an Intoxicated Woman They Escorted Home
Embedded video from CNN [...]
Tags: City Employees Caught On Cam·Privately owned CCTV·Publically Owned CCTV·Self Indicting
82 year old vandal apprehended and prosecuted by CCTV footage
May 1st, 2009 · No Comments · Private Surveillance Leading Practice
Chalk up a rare win for the private sector and the pro-CCTV crowd!
A frustrated neighbor who had been repeatedly vandalized set up a surveillance system to catch the perp who was throwing acid on his car. It didn't take too long before this citizen-turned-crimefighter to catch the crime in action! Not only did [...]
Craigslist Killer photo no help in apprehension efforts
April 28th, 2009 · No Comments · Private Surveillance Failure
Philip Markoff was introduced to the world last week through the grainy picture released by the Boston Police Department. While this picture was distributed through the internet and other news outlets, no one came forward to identify him. Markoff was eventually apprehended through the use of email tracing. While there is a mountain of [...]
Bank Heist on Vid
April 13th, 2009 · No Comments · Private Surveillance Failure
For the first blog entry, the NY Post's Bank Heist on Vid article pretty much sums up the current state of CCTV surveillance: cameras do not deter crime.
These images were recorded by an unmanned privately owned CCTV camera. As the image shows, the camera does not work well at night and there is [...]
