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:
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:
“Alan Frazier, a Grand Forks County part-time sheriff’s deputy and also an associate professor for the University of North Dakota’s Department of Aviation.”
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.
http://massprivatei.blogspot.com/2015/07/nearly-half-of-americas-police.html
and yet they cant seem to catch the crooks in DC!
Haha They are on the OTHER side of the camera unfortunately! Quis custodiet ipsos custode.
think the retired and unemployed in this country are missing their calling
they should be out in force watching tailing recording and investigating cops