He ain’t heavy
DEMAREST, N.J. (CBS) ― Surveillance cameras rolling inside our local schools is nothing new, but what’s taking place inside Demarest’s public schools is truly cutting edge: a live feed from more than two dozen cameras with a direct connection to the police.It’s an expensive, but effective tool that could be a sign of the times with an increase in school shootings over the years.The system, which cost about $28,000, can even track movement in a crowded room.”When they arrive, they can pull up the school’s live feed and do a sweep instantly,” Demarest Police Chief James Powderley tells CBS 2.
Patrolling officers have access to the video feed from headquarters and several laptops. To address privacy concerns, all of the cameras are installed in public areas and are not equipped to pick up audio.
The video capabilities are extremely impressive. Each of the laptops can pick up 16 different angles at one time, turning a single operator into a mobile surveillance team.
In an emergency situation, Powderley says the cameras — complete with zoom and pan functions — also cut down search and response times. “One officer has 17 eyes in multiple locations. It’s amazing,” he says.
Students seem pleased with the high-tech devices. Plans are already underway to install a more advanced system in Northern Valley High school, which can alert a patrolling officer when someone is in distress or suddenly falls down.
Uh-huh
How do you get a populace to accept such Orwellian nightmares? Make them accept such things at a young age as “normalcy”.
What these schools really need is a free thought detector, stop any and all problems in an instant.
Scopophobia: Fear of being seen or looked at.
Ophthalmophobia: Fear of being stared at.
Paralipophobia: Fear of neglecting responsibility.
Peccatophobia: Fear of sinning or imaginary crimes.
Mythophobi: Fear of false statements or stories.
Poinephobia: Fear of punishment.
Techno phobia: Fear of technology.
Eisoptrophobia: Fear of self, seeing oneself in a mirror.
Mnemophobia: Fear of memories.
Social Phobia: Fear of being evaluated negatively in social situations.
Dikephobia: Fear of justice.
Kainolophobia- Fear of anything new.
Bogyphobia: Fears of bogeys or the bogeyman.
Dextrophobia: Fear of the right side, things on the right side.
Polyphobia: Fear of many things.
Phobophobia: Fear of phobias.
Catagelophobia: Fear of being ridiculed.
RBGphobia:
Why? Because the Detroit Teachers and Administrators can’t control these criminals who are kept in school. The police have to step in to keep the other kids safe.
#5, Umm, what does Detroit, MICHIGAN teachers have to do with Demarest, NEW JERSEY?
What’s the difference? There are thousands of eyes wandering around any given public school. I think the main legal uses will be to catch bullies and drug dealing, which are two things that don’t belong in a school.
I don’t get why everybody is so friggin’ bent on cameras in public areas. I mean, it’s public — you’re right out there in the open, anyway. Your right to privacy starts at the edge of your own property, not on a public street or in a public school. Don’t like it? Stay inside, and home school. If you’re not doing anything wrong, than what’s the diff?
7. Cripes!
>>If you’re not doing anything wrong, than what’s the diff?
Fuckin’ A!
And if you’re not hiding drugs or guns in the trunk of your car or in your home, what’s the beef with letting the cops just take a look-see any old time they want to? If you’re not plotting terrorist threats on the phone, what’s the problem with warrantless wiretapping? If you’re not engaging in illegal sexual activity, you shouldn’t mind a govermnent web cam in your bedroom.
Right?
Thanks, RGB, I’m going to have some fun with that list.
Cameras haven’t done much to reduce crime in England. I doubt they will do any good at all in schools.
9.MM No problem if those are all public spaces.
RBG
1. Shake down the wealthy parents of biggest dealers.
2. ???
3. Profit
Are you kidding? Why? I grew up in Dumont, which is right next to Demarest. We were voted the safest town in the country when I was a kid.
That area is still extremely safe, you can pretty much leave your cars and houses unlocked at night with the amount of police coverage. The richer the area the more police they get, and that’s definitely higher end Soprano country.
Very shocking that they would be talking about crime control thru live video in that town.
>>MM No problem if those are all public spaces.
Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.
Ben is turning over in his grave.
If I didn’t know you for the big-brother-loving Orwellian fascist that you are, I would think you were kidding. Sad, what some Americans have become.
I’ll say it again, “No one should have anything to hide, nekkid pictures of EVERYONE for EVERYBODY!!!!!!” At any time of the day or night, you should be ready to be stripped nekkid, photoed and the pix be instantly posted on http://www.yernekkidass.com for anybody planetwide to have a peek. And if’n that don’t scare the pants (literally!) off these bootstompin’ lead headed fascist voyeurs, I don’t know what will.
Mustard, as usual you are overreacting to a very reasonable use of technology. You should learn the difference between private and public. A school is public property… your car is private, your home is private and your bedroom is private. No one is threatening your privacy, so take a valium and calm down.
Yeah, and the first time some kid runs through the halls with an Uzi everybody screams at the cops ’cause they didn’t DO SOMETHING. It’s school, where bad kids do bad things, where uniformed cops regularly patrol the grounds, and there isn’t a helluva lot of difference between police officers and cameras, with their locations known to all. Not everybody is a bad-ass, and the normal kids probably feel just a litle bit more secure with the cameras, just in case some over sized lout just takes a notion to start a bunch of stuff. Beaver graduated a long time ago, and America’s public schools have changed drastically over the years. So get over it, and the next time you are in Wal-Mart or any other big retail box you might, if you look close, see a few cameras here and there in your favorite hangout.
#9 – It was already said, but I’ll clarify what you missed: I’m talking about a public street and a public school. The trunk of your car is not a public place. Your phone is not a public place. Your bedroom isn’t a public place – or maybe yours is, I dunno – but mine isn’t a public place.
Your right to privacy starts at the edge of your own property, not on a public street or in a public school. The difference between a police officer standing there watching activities, versus a camera watching activities – is the presence of a body that is in a position to react faster, nothing more. Heck – look at it this way: if there are more cameras, and less physical police presence, don’t you actually have a little more freedom?
14. MM: Did Ben have anything to say about purchasing a lot of permanent safety?
RBG
>>Did Ben have anything to say about purchasing a lot
>>of permanent safety?
I doubt Ben (or anyone else) thinks “a lot of permanent safety” is going to be purchased by videotaping schoolkids learning to read, write, and cipher.
It’s a great idea, as long as the school shooters don’t know how to shoot at a camera.
Oh, and by “great”, I mean “insane”.
#16 – Mustard, as usual you are overreacting to a very reasonable use of technology.
Maybe he is reacting to the slippery slope or the very negative use of social engineering…
20. MM. If that’s all that happens in schools these days, you’re right – not needed.
RBG