Photos by Jon Megna/Unsplash, cherezoff/iStock/Getty Images Plus, and JPLDesigns/iStock/Getty Images Plus. “We would just need to see the data.” But he says that he and his colleagues just haven’t had the capacity to seriously look into how Alabama police use the technology, let alone push for reforms.
Public surveillance camera systems can be a cost-effective way to deter, document, and reduce crime. I asked her if she was aware of the “complaint” about misconduct that Hudson had mentioned to me. But they also now have far more potential for abuse. “Ah, that’s optimistic.”As for their own ALPR cameras, some of the law enforcement agencies I talked to were only using the system for felony investigations: “the worst of the worst.” But others used it more expansively. They’ve investigated tree trimmers charging for a day of work they didn’t do and caught people dumping trash on private property. Currently, Project Safe Neighborhoods (PSN) provides funding for utilities and maintenance for all the cameras.The cameras are highly overt with Decatur Police marking and posted signage (ATTENTION Area Under Police Video Surveillance) throughout the surveillance area. One officer, who recently left a large sheriff’s department in Minnesota, told me that his department seriously monitored ALPR use and he’d never heard of anyone abusing the system. “One neighbor thought it was a violation of his privacy,” she told me. Surveillance cameras may capture evidence that is vital to investigating a crime in your neighborhood. When crime happens, officers would know exactly where to look for pictures, video and clues to catch the bad guys. “At that time, we were only able to install a couple cameras,” he says. “Anecdotally, it seems to be that these are put up in neighborhoods with people of color,” he says. The cameras are monitored throughout the Decatur Police Department, including the Patrol Division Command Office and Street Crimes Unit.
The overt surveillance systems are an example of 21st century policing and are very popular with the neighborhood residents. But “we just don’t have the resources that the ACLUs in New York or California have, or even Michigan.”As automatic license plate readers proliferate in smaller towns and redder states, there are not always organizations in place ready to push back against them. The cameras continue to have a positive effect on reducing the level of street crime (drug sales, prostitution, and fights) in our neighborhoods and provide a sense of security and a higher quality of life for neighborhood residents. I asked her if she thought he’d ever come around to it. Almost all of them had started using it in the past three years, drawn by its sudden affordability. By Dan Honig and Jayme Johnson. And even when auditing does happen, several employees told me they’re not confident that it works. She hadn’t been. The Decatur Police Department currently has eight overt video surveillance cameras in operation in the City of Decatur. “No,” she responded. The city already had traffic cameras in place, so all it had to do was buy the software.And as the technology has matured, it’s gotten in the hands of organizations that, five years ago, would never have been able to consider it. The change in scale has turned ALPR from a neat trick to a game-changing technology.
It can detect dents on cars. The software now can read much more than license plates. Burnett is the director of innovation and new technology at Watchtower Security, a private company that contracts with property managers—hundreds of them—in low-income communities across the U.S. About three years ago, his company started contracting with OpenALPR, a startup whose software lets users track people by their license plates. GM Square has one camera which is located at Division/Union.
And in many jurisdictions, cheap ALPR cameras are creeping into neighborhoods—with almost nothing restricting how they’re used besides the surveiller’s own discretion.I talked to about a dozen people who use ALPRs, everywhere from California to Alabama: property managers, small-town police chiefs, and people who’d simply gone Dutch with their neighbors to buy some software. The Jasper Park area has one camera which is located at Calhoun/Main.This project utilizes state of the art equipment and the Police Department has received a great deal of technical assistance from the City of Decatur’s Management Information Services (MIS) in the initial deployment and maintenance of the surveillance systems. If you value our work, please disable your ad blocker.By joining Slate Plus you support our work and get exclusive content.
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