LAPD uses Facebook, Twitter, videos to find Lakers violence

Los Angeles authorities plan to use hundreds of images taken from police videos, business surveillance cameras, TV news footage, Twitter posts and Facebook pages to identify people who committed crimes after the L.A. Lakers NBA championship win last week. Local...

AFP: Police cameras to flood Manhattan to prevent attacks

New York officials say they could stop attacks like the attempted Times Square car bomb by expanding a controversial surveillance system so sensitive that it will pick up even suspicious behavior.

More police security cameras approved for Toronto

This, despite the fact there’s no evidence they help prevent crime at all. See here , here , and here . The reason that Toronto Police are pushing the cameras , the ’school resource officers’ , the program to demand your ID on the street is the same reason similar programs are appearing in any number of global jurisdictions - the agenda is to build a surveillance grid for the global society. Police are not bad, and we need peace officers, but police state architecture is a threat to the

Morning Brew: Public School for Parents, 11 New Police Cameras, Vaughan Tornado Victims Helpless, Cell Phone while Driving Ban Starts Monday

Photo: untitled by danger.beard , member of the blogTO Flickr pool . What's happening in the GTA (and sometimes beyond): Toronto District School Board (TDSB) director of education Chris Spence has some interesting ideas for public school reform - including a school for parents . "Sorry, Mom. You can't watch Grey's Anatomy until you finish your homework. And you won't be going to Florida in December if you still have a failing grade in Parenting on your mid-term report card!" Note

UK’s CCTV cameras effectively useless

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/… Each case helped by the use of CCTV effectively costs £20,000 to detect, Met figures showed. Critics of Britain’s so-called ’surveillance society’ said it raised serious concerns over how police forces used CCTV cameras to fight crime. A report by a House of Lords committee also said that £500million was spent on new cameras in the 10 years to 2006, money which could have been spent on street lighting or neighbourhood crime prevention initiatives.

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