Salvation Revelation

New York is Planning to install a Massive Security Camera Surveillance System called ”The Lower Manhattan Security Initiative”, that will work with a series of Traffic Blocking Gates to be used “capture terrorists” or suspected terrorists. 

By the end of 2007 more than 100 security cameras will be spying on cars moving through Lower Manhattan. This is of course, only the first step in the new New York City “surveillance program”

The Lower Manhattan Security Initiative, is modeled after London’s so-called Ring of Steel, which is an extensive web of cameras and roadblocks designed to detect, track and deter terrorists.

British officials claim images captured by the cameras helped track suspects after the London subway bombings in 2005 and the car bomb plots last month. But it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to see that these camera systems don’t detect or deter. They can be used to track back only after the fact, but it’s impossible to monitor the steady stream of information coming into thousands upon thousands of cameras all at once in real time.

The program is expected to include license plate readers and 3,000 public and private security cameras, movable roadblocks, as well as a command center staffed by the police and private security officers.

So now we get to the meat of the issue. At what point does the NYPD merge with “private security officers“. We’re not told who the officers will be, how they will serve the city, and what American rights they will be allowed to infringe upon.

Why not just expand the NYPD to incorporate a new division of anti-terror surveillance? This sounds like NYC is planning on creating it’s own little “spy network’ that will be independent of government restraints.

The license plate readers will check license plate numbers and send out alerts if suspect vehicles were detected. This sounds like a complete waste of money, unless of course it’s used to crack down on drivers that have failed to renew plates and are driving around with expired license plates. 

NYC is already seeking state approval to charge drivers a fee to enter Manhattan. This plan would require the use of license plate readers. If/when this plan is approved, the police will collect information from those readers too, Mr. Kelly said.

The Lower Manhattan Security Initiative involves much more than simply keeping track of license plates. Three thousand surveillance cameras would be installed by the end of 2008, about two-thirds of them owned by downtown companies. Some of those are already in place. Pivoting gates would be installed at critical intersections; they would swing out to block traffic or a suspect car at the push of a button.

The Lower Manhattan Security Initiative cameras will transmit live information, unlike the 250 or so cameras the police already have in high-crime areas throughout the city, which capture moving images that have to be downloaded,

The entire The Lower Manhattan Security Initiative is planned to be in place and running by 2010, in time for the projected completion of several new buildings in the financial district, including the new Goldman Sachs world headquarters.

This sounds like perfect timing as the North American Union looks as though it will be in place by or shortly after 2010.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/09/nyregion/09ring.html?_r=3&hp&oref=slogin&oref=slogin&oref=slogin