The New York Police Department will soon launch an all-seeing “Domain Awareness System” that combines several streams of information to track both criminals and potential terrorists.
New York Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly says the city developed the software with Microsoft.
Kelly says the program combines city-wide video surveillance with law enforcement databases.
He says it will be officially unveiled by New York’s mayor as soon as next week.
Kelly spoke Saturday before an audience at the Aspen Security Forum.
The NYPD has been under fire for surveillance of Muslim communities and partnering with the CIA to track potential terror suspects. Muslim groups have sued to shut down the NYPD programs.
Kelly defended the policies as key to thwarting 14 terror plots[*] against the city since the attacks of Sept. 11th.
See also:
Big Brother Blown Cover: How A 911 Caller Outed NYPD Surveillance Of Muslims In New Jersey
*Remember the T-Shirt vendor that stopped the bomb attempt in Times Square? He was actually a piece of high tech surveillance equipment. So, totally justified.
(The other 13 “terror plots” that Kelly claims are a bit dubious to say the least.)
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Our brave new world is looking like the movie Running Man.
this is grotty, nypd. grotty.
*Remember the T-Shirt vendor that stopped the bomb attempt in Times Square? He was actually a piece of high tech...
I will be using Torr from now on and I encourage others to do the same.