"Operation Virtual Shield": Full-Spectrum Surveillance in Chicago

[Razer]

On 01/18/2017 09:13 PM, grarpamp wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 18, 2017 at 12:04 PM, Razer <g2s at riseup.net> wrote:
>> http://blog.networkedinference.com/2017/01/also-about-video-surveillance-in.html
> Surveillance Police State.

Operation Virtual Police State...

A company named Persistent Systems hired by the LA county Sheriff to do
full time full spectrum surveillance of the whole of LA county was
'outed' a few years ago. When it was in the news I happened by the local
city bus terminal and sure enough a sticker on the entranceway glass
door said the site surveillance was also being done by the same
company.... I didn't have my camera with me at the time, and when I
returned the next morning the sticker had changed to their new name...
Dojo. (sort of like blackwater >> academi).

All just as well. It's a federal crime to take pictures of public
transport facilities thanks to the CIA's own al-Qaeda, Osama, and an
airplane attack on a certain NYC tower complex.

Rr

LA Sheriff's Dept. On New Surveillance Program: We Knew The Public
Wouldn't Like It, So We Kept It A Secret

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140415/07371926919/la-sheriffs-dept-new-surveillance-program-we-knew-public-wouldnt-like-it-so-we-kept-it-secret.shtml

How Baltimore Became America’s Laboratory for Spy Tech

https://www.wired.com/2016/09/baltimore-became-americas-testbed-surveillance-tech/


Baltimore billionaires donate (!) to the company

Check THIS Lede:
> Billionaire donors Laura and John Arnold support far more in Maryland
> than police surveillance
>
> The surveillance program — which has sent a single-engine plane flying
> 8,000 feet above Baltimore to record hundreds of hours of video —
> began in January with an earlier, $120,000 gift from the Arnolds to
> Persistent Surveillance Systems, the department's contractor on an
> effort that police officials never disclosed to the mayor before
> starting the monitoring.
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/baltimore-city/bs-md-arnolds-20160826-story.html
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