Judge Limits New York Police Taping

by Jordan Yerman | February 16, 2007 at 09:21 am
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New Yorkers are the most-photographed of American Citizens, and not just during fashion week. Just like in London, surveillance cameras have become familiar background objects in day-to-day life, though they have little demonstrable security value. After all, a camera can't prevent something from happening, even if one of New York's Finest is watching live, which is unlikely. In the unlikely event that a suicide bombing occurs, the tape could be used for color commentary, but not much else, as the image quality is equal to that of my cruddy phone-cam.


In a rebuke of a surveillance practice greatly expanded by the New York Police Department after the Sept. 11 attacks, a federal judge ruled yesterday that the police must stop the routine videotaping of people at public gatherings unless there is an indication that unlawful activity may occur.
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