Poughkeepsie police going to high tech cameras to protect public

Jsmegs77 · Dec 21, 2022

License plate readers? Ha. Easily foiled by, well, everything.

libertysnake · Dec 21, 2022

They already have one of these abominations up right near the old south hills mall. It sits right here I'm pretty sure. I always wondered what it was till now:

41°36'59.5"N 73°54'57.5"W

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FRANKIE · Dec 21, 2022

Good
This will take some of the gun fire off the power plants

ManualF150 · Dec 21, 2022

libertysnake said:
They already have one of these abominations up right near the old south hills mall. It sits right here I'm pretty sure. I always wondered what it was till now:

41°36'59.5"N 73°54'57.5"W

Google Maps

I'm surprised no one has stolen it yet.

libertysnake · Dec 21, 2022

ManualF150 said:
I'm surprised no one has stolen it yet.

Someone should put a sign next to it with the street worth and the coordinates on a billboard in the middle of the city of Poughkeepsie. Thing will be on cinderblocks by nightfall, guaranteed.

Saltwater60 · Dec 21, 2022

And how does this work exactly? I want to know how much crime this stops. Unless they are in every corner of the city good luck. So it detects the sound of gunshots and records movement. Ok so how does that translate to knowing who fired the shot? To me this is nothing more than a feel good measure and we have plenty of shot detection units installed already in plenty of areas and I keep hearing about crime rising so these must not work well.

CaseHardened · Dec 21, 2022

Of course this will be misused to prosecute minor offenses by US Citizens, yet ignored for "Migrants".

Jmac00 · Dec 21, 2022

License plate readers will look at your plate, they can tell if your registration/inspections/insurance are up to date, they will also be looking for any outstanding warrants. They will be able to tell a lot about you

kev74 · Dec 21, 2022

libertysnake said:
They already have one of these abominations up right near the old south hills mall. It sits right here I'm pretty sure. I always wondered what it was till now:

41°36'59.5"N 73°54'57.5"W

Google Maps

Hmmm... Solar panel in the shade. Definitely government work.

kev74 · Dec 21, 2022

I bet some enterprising youths in Poughkeepsie have some new targets to practice their marksmanship on!

libertysnake · Dec 21, 2022

Saltwater60 said:
And how does this work exactly? I want to know how much crime this stops. Unless they are in every corner of the city good luck. So it detects the sound of gunshots and records movement. Ok so how does that translate to knowing who fired the shot? To me this is nothing more than a feel good measure and we have plenty of shot detection units installed already in plenty of areas and I keep hearing about crime rising so these must not work well.

It's either to read the license plates of most cars at the busy intersection there, or it could be to monitor the conservatives that protest across the street with Benghazi signs every so often and DTOM flags.

Side note:

I hear more people getting pist off about a bunch of protesters than the guy who dresses as the grim reaper and goes around fucking with people in a scream mask and a giant scythe. I'm not sure if it's this dude, but it seems like the same dude potentially. Man Dressed as Joker Rattles Customers at Poughkeepsie Target

And this is a pic of the scream mask dude with the same hourglass, so I think it's the same dude: Haunting 'Masked' Mystery Man Appears Again in the Hudson Valley

He's probably looking for someone to hit him so he can sue or something.

Acer-m14 · Dec 22, 2022

blowing smoke up dumb Citizens asses ..

"The Flock Safety Falcon is a solar-powered, motion-activated, and infrastructure-free camera that uses proprietary technology to identify and take a snapshot of the critical details of a vehicle that passes by it. The Falcon captures the make, vehicle type, color, license plate (full, partial, or missing), state of the license plate, and the vehicle’s unique features, including damage and after-market alterations. They are connected to the cloud through LTE, like a mobile phone, and perform 24/7 in any weather. The city will be using both solar-powered and hard-wired Flock cameras in the program."

LMFAO .. so your cameras can see if a auto has a deleted system .. or if my car is vaping while driving ..

Acer-m14 · Dec 22, 2022

libertysnake · Dec 22, 2022

Acer-m14 said:
blowing smoke up dumb Citizens asses ..

"The Flock Safety Falcon is a solar-powered, motion-activated, and infrastructure-free camera that uses proprietary technology to identify and take a snapshot of the critical details of a vehicle that passes by it. The Falcon captures the make, vehicle type, color, license plate (full, partial, or missing), state of the license plate, and the vehicle’s unique features, including damage and after-market alterations. They are connected to the cloud through LTE, like a mobile phone, and perform 24/7 in any weather. The city will be using both solar-powered and hard-wired Flock cameras in the program."

LMFAO .. so your cameras can see if a auto has a deleted system .. or if my car is vaping while driving ..

Yeah it's some 1984 bullshit.

The problem is police just want to make their jobs easier, at the cost of regular citizens. If it were up to LEO, we'd all be in cells already so it would be a constant instead of a variable in the equation, and make things even easier.

The problem is, we're free men, in a free country. This shit doesn't jive with freedom. Anyone who supports this sort of non-stop surveillance also doesn't support freedom either.

That's not to say private citizens can't take a picture of you in public, but when the government does this sort of monitoring it becomes a police state.

Acer-m14 · Dec 22, 2022