Nearly half of America’s police departments use public surveillance cameras to spy on Americans

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A report from the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) titled Local Police Departments, 2013: Equipment and Technology” shows a massive increase in police surveillance of Americans.

According to the BJS report, 17 percent of America’s police departments use automated license plate readers to spy on Americans.  About 1 in 6 local police departments used automated vehicle license plate readers in 2013, including a majority of those serving a population of 25,000 or more.  

In other words, nearly every police department that serves a population of more than 25,000 people is using them!

An estimated 17% (about 2,000) of departments used automated license plate readers in 2013. This total included more than three-quarters of the departments serving 100,000 or more residents. About half (49% or 6,000) of all departments used video cameras for surveillance of public areas, including more than two-thirds of the departments serving 25,000 or more residents.

Did you catch that? Two-thirds of our police departments that serve a population of more than 25,000 people are spying on us in public areas! 

Police are also spying on your Wi-Fi access and using street lights linked to a mesh network to spy on us.

In total, 89% (about 11,000) of local police departments were using some type of video camera technology in 2013. Some departments also used advanced audio technology in the form of gunshot detection systems. Gunshot detection systems were used by 4% of departments,including 50% of those serving 1 million or more residents.

Police are using gunshot detectors called ‘ShotSpotter‘ to spy on people’s conversations. Click, here & here to read more.

Police across the country are also using “Persistent Surveillance Systems” to spy on everyone, click here & here to read more.

So far only a small percentage of police departments in the 50,000 or more population category reported using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV’s). Interestingly or intentionally there was no mention of police using surveillance blimps to spy on us. Click here & here to find out more.

Who’s behind the UAV program?

DHS is at the forefront of police UAV’s, they even want to use UAV’s to transport the dead

In October of 2014 I reported how DHS is using surveillance drones to spy on Americans, see below:

DHS flew drones equipped with video cameras over the United States–away from border and coastal areas–for 1,726 hours from fiscal 2011 through this April.”
The report, written by Brittany M. Hughes, concludes that aerial drones were indeed flown outside of approved and mandated border patrol zones to in fact spy on American citizens being monitored by the police or FBI. Moreover, “1,726 hours” of flight were logged between “fiscal 2011 through this April” outside of border zones, i.e. over the interior of the US.
These flights included missions to “provide aerial support for local law enforcement activities and investigations,” to agencies including the FBI and multi-agency task forces, and to “provide aerial support for monitoring natural disasters,” the report added on slide No. 11.

In May of 2015 I reported how DHS is using our state police to start a national domestic drone surveillance program and nearly a week later the Police Chiefs Association announced they want a national drone policy.

The Police Chief’s Assoc. claim they need surveillance drones for public safety, see below:

“Police agencies across the nation are increasingly using drones to improve public safety, but need clear operations policies and limits to win public trust, experts said at a law enforcement conference in San Diego.”

Dozens of universities are working on profitable drone surveillance programs to be used to spy on Americans! Click here & here to read more.

It’s only a matter of a couple of years before nearly EVERY police department serving a population of more than 25,000 has surveillance drones.

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3 thoughts on “Nearly half of America’s police departments use public surveillance cameras to spy on Americans

  1. think the retired and unemployed in this country are missing their calling
    they should be out in force watching tailing recording and investigating cops

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