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Saratoga Springs bets its safety on security cameras
For tourist towns, safety and economic development go hand-in-hand. Every summer, tourists flock to the quaint resort town of Saratoga Springs in Upstate New York for its healing mineral waters and summer race track. However, a recent spate of crime including robberies, sexual assault and an ugly incident involving a machete, have residents worried not […]
Is video surveillance too high a price to pay to deter criminals?
Although video surveillance has been adopted by many cities to deter crime, their effectiveness is up for debate. Many studies suggest that camera footage helps in criminal investigations, but is not effective in preventing crime. In many cases, crimes happen in areas just outside the cameras’ reach. Another hindering factor is that a camera monitoring system […]
Trespassing on train tracks: illegal, romantic, and dangerous
A few years back, the winning entry (by Alan Cheuse) of NPR’s 3-minute fiction competition started like this: “In Tucson, we found the train-hopping kids, and went with them to New York City. I was 15 and had never been out of Arizona. That summer, I’d learned to eat from Dumpsters, carry a knife in my […]
Violent military tactics used by police investigated by ACLU
After a decade of wartime innovations, some of those military technologies are finding their way into local and state police stations. Law enforcement is already successfully using predictive technology in capturing serial offenders on American soil. Originally developed by the military to help bomb squads in Iraq and Afghanistan figure out where explosives were buried, police have […]
Police surveillance drones pose a threat to domestic privacy
As the battle rages on about the U.S. government’s use of drones in the war on terror, the inevitable diffusion of military technology into civilian life is well under way. In the international debate over the use of drones, a major sticking point has been the use of drones to kill American citizens thought to […]
Skateboarding signs and fines
Did you know that anyone over the age of 14 in Martinsville, VA, gets slapped with a fine and a misdemeanor for skating on the sidewalk? Skateboarding laws take into account a lot of things from age, time of day, location, and even manner.
