Quite a little hint that the totalitarian police state is coming. It’s on a very decentralized level, but the groundwork is being laid for nothing less than a surveillance society in the future.
DEMAREST, N.J. (CBS) ― Surveillance cameras rolling inside our local schools is nothing new, but what’s taking place inside Demarest’s public schools is truly cutting edge: a live feed from more than two dozen cameras with a direct connection to the police.
It’s an expensive, but effective tool that could be a sign of the times with an increase in school shootings over the years.
The system, which cost about $28,000, can even track movement in a crowded room.
“When they arrive, they can pull up the school’s live feed and do a sweep instantly,” Demarest Police Chief James Powderley tells CBS 2.
Patrolling officers have access to the video feed from headquarters and several laptops. To address privacy concerns, all of the cameras are installed in public areas and are not equipped to pick up audio.
The video capabilities are extremely impressive. Each of the laptops can pick up 16 different angles at one time, turning a single operator into a mobile surveillance team.
In an emergency situation, Powderley says the cameras — complete with zoom and pan functions — also cut down search and response times. “One officer has 17 eyes in multiple locations. It’s amazing,” he says.
Schools Superintendent Larry Hughes says if nothing else, the ability to digitally timestamp and archive the video should discourage bad, even criminal behavior.
“It doesn’t hurt that people know and that if something is going to take place at your facility, if it does deter people from doing that, it’s an added benefit,” says Hughes.
Students seem pleased with the high-tech devices.
“I would want the police to be there right away if something happened to our school. Especially with all these bomb scares happening now, I know the high school had a couple,” says one student.
Plans are already underway to install a more advanced system in Northern Valley High school, which can alert a patrolling officer when someone is in distress or suddenly falls down.
Filed under: News, Politics | Tagged: cameras, society, Surveillance
Yeah, great until someone compromises the system. A peadophile would no doubt love access to cameras in a school, especially with pan/tilt.
Policemen are rarely the smartest members of society, so they can be expected to use poor or no passwords with this system. They assume that their power will stop people attempting unauthorised access, or they can use their power to punish offenders. Pigs (and school admins) tend not to be very tech-savy too, so they will sign off any old snake-oil that a vendor has presented them, so even if by some miracle an attacker doesn’t walk in the front door (i.e. password or social engineering), they will probably be able to crack the system as it’ll be running on a proprietry platform.
Any parents who have kids at a school like this should be massively opposed to it. A highranking UK policeman recently admitted his force had been choosing to deal with the easy crimes to get better results…. would you want your kid to be the victim of a pig who wants a pay rise?
Wow.. just wow.
You people sitting down and allowing this to happen to your school, in your community, will get all that you deserve.
Horrid.
I don’t know where you went to school but I don’t think I’ve ever even BEEN in a school that DIDN’T have video cameras on every corner. every school bus has cameras as well. I’m very much against having a surveillance society but you’ve got to consider that public schools are government property.
Americans have become the weakest, stupidest people in human history.
Unless we got something to hide, why are we as Americans so paranoid about crazy stuff like this?
EJ, I went to a high school in NEW JERSEY (albeit the Skylands region) and except for the admin office there were no cameras. The worst things at our school were fist fights, smoking and drug dealing in bathrooms/locker hallways, and one threat we had. (Turns out the year before my freshman year there was a bomb scare – a cassette player with a ticking clock.)
And Gary, many police stations and school systems usually have a tech operator on staff who DOES know how to deal with this stuff on a level greater than most people how to deal with. Get your facts straight.
I have to agree – this is a government building, and I haven’t been in a government building that isn’t monitored like a prison. I’m not for it, but I’m also not saying this is the beginning of a totalitarian society.
I noticed people who go ballistic about the small stories are the same people jump at their own shadows a lot. We’re not England, where every street pole has a camera, and 50% of those talk to you.
This is nothing but one more little thing. That’s how its being done, one little thing at a time. Check out the new bill just passed: HR-1955.
This country is being turned into a Police State by the corrupt Elite and Jewish Supremacists. No question at all anymore. To think otherwise is simply foolish.
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Government building? Really? State supported? Federal supported? No. They are PUBLIC buildings.
Local school districts are managed by local school boards, which own and operate the public primary and secondary schools within their boundaries. They are supported by millage from local residents. Funding is multi-layered. It is generally the local tax base which is responsible for supporting the schools, and a certain amount of funding is also passed on from the state and feds
Man, talk about being paranoid…AND anti-semetic. Normally I try to be tolerant of both tolerance-cravers and those whose ideas are more prejudicial…but your thinking is so out of line here I think. What Jewish supremacy?! And I don’t need to hear about the joke that Jews runs the world’s major banks as well…
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Charz: What Jewish supremacy?! And I don’t need to hear about the joke that Jews runs the world’s major banks as well…
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Man, what a joke! Must be Jewish, eh? Yeah, you folks just love to act like it’s all a joke, now. How about that rip-off going on with Harman and the AIPAC spies and getting that Police State BS anti-American bill HR-1955 passed?
You want anyone figuring out your little con-games on America to be considered wacky because it hides your perfidious activities or you’re the one paranoid about real Americans. People are wising up, Schmo.
Holocaust, Schmolocaust…
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