Atlanta to get 12,000 cameras by 2016

[Gimmeguns]

Atlanta police are bolstering their reach and capabilities by continuing to integrate cameras into their strategy.

Police plan to have as many as 12,000 cameras giving crime analysts a window to the city.

With the aid of the Atlanta Police Foundation, a nonprofit that supports the Atlanta Police Department, new technology is being developed to help police track perpetrators in cars, identify suspects in a crowd and tell police where crimes might happen.

College students work in a lab in the foundation’s downtown office testing a license plate recognition camera, analyzing crime data from an algorithm designed to predict crime and perusing an online pin-map that links to an expanding network of surveillance cameras.

 

[Gimmeguns]

This was a quote from AJC article.

 

[galvatron]

Predicting crime. ...... interesting

 

[patricio2626]

Predicting crime. ...... interesting

Minority Report This seems like another reason to live in the sticks if you're paranoid, or becoming more paranoid as the years go by (like me).

 

[41mag]

Welcome to ORWELL's 1984.....I wonder if they will make those recordings available to citizens that log complaints against authorities ?

 

[bulletpaluza]

Brings a whole new meaning to Big BROTHA....

 

[chucklenut]

disgusting

 

[Gigabyte71]

Though I can't think of a single redeeming quality about Atlanta, this is yet one more reason I hope I NEVER have to find myself there.

 

[Gigabyte71]

Welcome to ORWELL's 1984.....I wonder if they will make those recordings available to citizens that log complaints against authorities ?

There will likely have been issues with those cameras during that period.

 

[Porsche958]

I've always wondered what that organization was in the bottom of my building, and how they managed to afford rent at 191 Peachtree...