Big Brother is watching - but don't make this political

[MongerNinja]

So I did the Hempstead stroll yesterday and didn’t see much of the SW action. However, what I did notice as I was waiting for the light at Terrace and Jackson. There are a lot of recently installed cameras and sensors mounted on the overhead poles and streetlights.

I drove around a bit and noticed the entire area is under major surveillance almost every pole or streetlight has something mounted

Heads up guys….. They are watching

 

[trader1]

So I did the Hempstead stroll yesterday and didn’t see much of the SW action. However, what I did notice as I was waiting for the light at Terrace and Jackson. There are a lot of recently installed cameras and sensors mounted on the overhead poles and streetlights.

I drove around a bit and noticed the entire area is under major surveillance almost every pole or streetlight has something mounted

Heads up guys….. They are watching

The sensors are most likely devices that detect gunshots— Quite common, unfortunately, in high crime neighborhoods

 

[MongerNinja]

The sensors are most likely devices that detect gunshots— Quite common, unfortunately, in high crime neighborhoods

I agree, but the number of cameras around is a little too close for comfort and I think they have license plate scanners as well

 

[MassyMan]

The cameras in Hempstead were installed almost 11 years ago at this point.
In early 2010, Hempstead was part of a pilot program with two other U.S. places - Camden, NJ and Detroit, MI in a program by a company that developed the Shot Spotter technology. I believe an initial 40 were installed all throughout the village, many of it in the downtown area. In 2017, that program installed another 65 bringing the total number of shot spotters in Hempstead to over 100. A year later then installed cameras specifically on the most triggered Shot Spotters in the village which record only ‘4 seconds after of the area has been triggered by a shot response’.
In 2013, the FBI and DEA also installed their own cameras throughout the village along with license plate readers many of them around the Bidel-Terrace area many of this is under legal documents that are available ‘Bidel Terrace initiative’ as it’s commonly referred to. Many who are members of this board and I’m sure those that stalk with no account are naive to what they drive into when they go to that area. It is not Bayshore CI or Coram. Brentwood has its own Gang Task force that you need to look out for patrolling but not mass surveillance, nor the density of crime in such a small radius.
Many well read veterans will know the state of affairs in Hempstead has dwindled since the late 70s/early 80s into despair on all fronts. As far as why these cameras were installed in that pilot program and the on going reason for increased surveillance (it isn’t for us idiots looking to get our cocks sucked) I highly suggest a book called ‘The Triangle’ by Kevin Deutsch written specifically about a year of undercover investigation as a journalist in Hempstead specifically. You won’t be able to put it down. It might also discourage some from ever visiting the area.

 

[Bricktop]

The sensors are most likely devices that detect gunshots— Quite common, unfortunately, in high crime neighborhoods

Shot spotter doesn’t have cameras

 

[MassyMan]

Shot spotter doesn’t have cameras

that would be called ‘fake news’. Not only do shot spotters have cameras if they want to install them with it but Hempstead specifically has had cameras on their shot spotters as early as 2014, see article below.
https://www.newsday.com/long-island...shotspotter-to-counter-gun-violence-1.8466862

Also, Nassau County as a whole has a couple thousand cameras at this point ALL over the county. Look around and observe, some of them aren’t even that hidden. You’ll see them on random poles on street corners or on county/state/village property - others are more clandenstine. Below is an article from 2013 telling the naive public of its existence, at the time there were only a couple hundred cameras. The big take away from the article is it reads like Minority Report and makes the public be reassured they only access them when needed, as if were supposed to trust the tried and true corruption led by authority figures to be proven as legit political criminals.
https://www.newsday.com/long-island...of-surveillance-cams-to-fight-crime-1.5950976

 

[MassyMan]

“The village also wants to have a new mobile command center in place by midsummer, officials said. It is to be equipped with radios, computers, a license plate reader and a 25-foot arm with a camera that rotates 360 degrees. The center would be used at crime and fire scenes, and large public gatherings, such as festivals and parades.
"We'll use it for surveillance and observation”

from the first article above. Again, it’s important to note all this technology was in Hempstead almost a decade ago and all the companies they contract, as well as the money they’ve received continue these agendas have expanded.

 

[Monty_monty]

The sensors are most likely devices that detect gunshots— Quite common, unfortunately, in high crime neighborhoods

The good news is that the ShotSpotter is only good at alerting on "false" reports. That many police departments are no longer even responding to the alerts, thusly the cameras being added for review later to see what occurred. - risk vs reward.

https://www.codastory.com/authoritarian-tech/gun-violence-police-shotspotter/

85 Percent Of ShotSpotter Alerts Are Dead Ends — But Officers Coached To Think They’re Responding To Dangerous Situations, Study Finds
https://edgeworthanalytics.com/independent-analysis-of-the-mjc-study-on-shotspotter-in-chicago/

https://www.thetrace.org/2021/08/chicago-police-shotspotter-gunshot-detection-shooting-contract/

https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/fl-xpm-2011-11-22-fl-shot-spotter-fail-20111122-story.html

ShotSpotter at this time has no correction to its algo's in the works to improve it. Probably unlikely that its AI could learn the difference of a .45 cal on clear day from sheet metal being banged into shape on a cold damp day.

 

[Bricktop]

that would be called ‘fake news’. Not only do shot spotters have cameras if they want to install them with it but Hempstead specifically has had cameras on their shot spotters as early as 2014, see article below.
https://www.newsday.com/long-island...shotspotter-to-counter-gun-violence-1.8466862

Also, Nassau County as a whole has a couple thousand cameras at this point ALL over the county. Look around and observe, some of them aren’t even that hidden. You’ll see them on random poles on street corners or on county/state/village property - others are more clandenstine. Below is an article from 2013 telling the naive public of its existence, at the time there were only a couple hundred cameras. The big take away from the article is it reads like Minority Report and makes the public be reassured they only access them when needed, as if were supposed to trust the tried and true corruption led by authority figures to be proven as legit political criminals.
https://www.newsday.com/long-island...of-surveillance-cams-to-fight-crime-1.5950976

I don’t report fake news. SS works from audio sensors that triangulate input. Cameras aren’t necessary for this application

 

[Bricktop]

that would be called ‘fake news’. Not only do shot spotters have cameras if they want to install them with it but Hempstead specifically has had cameras on their shot spotters as early as 2014, see article below.
https://www.newsday.com/long-island...shotspotter-to-counter-gun-violence-1.8466862

Also, Nassau County as a whole has a couple thousand cameras at this point ALL over the county. Look around and observe, some of them aren’t even that hidden. You’ll see them on random poles on street corners or on county/state/village property - others are more clandenstine. Below is an article from 2013 telling the naive public of its existence, at the time there were only a couple hundred cameras. The big take away from the article is it reads like Minority Report and makes the public be reassured they only access them when needed, as if were supposed to trust the tried and true corruption led by authority figures to be proven as legit political criminals.
https://www.newsday.com/long-island...of-surveillance-cams-to-fight-crime-1.5950976

Remember when they put them on the southernstate 25 years ago. Used to have 3 minutes to get away before the helicopter came out. Now there’s a camera that sees everything. Day night infrared and heat

 

[Bigboss800x]

They got em on not only the traffic lights where you press button to Cross but on the poles that hold the trsffic lights themselves. Watch some of the intersections. They got a few in suffolk however majority of ones i seen in nasssu are on Hempstead tpke, sunrise highway and in the lynnbrook valley stream area.

 

[Monty_monty]

They are watching everything...

A lot of those "camera's" are really ezpass sensors (to do traffic volume and speed calculations at their most benign iteration) they are what updates the "travel time" InfoDOT program signs all along the highways. But when has any government surveillance program not expanded to more nefarious purposes.

The "Police State" of America monitors you here is another way...
#NYDOT tracks drivers using RFID in E-ZPass. A reminder that anything that tracks can be used in unanticipated ways:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmi...ead-all-over-new-york-not-just-at-toll-booths

A hacktivist, made his ez-pass signal every time he drove by an EzPass reader, and most are not anywhere near any toll roads/bridges
https://hackaday.com/2013/09/16/modified-e-zpass-detects-reads-far-from-toll-booths/
https://www.popsci.com/article/diy/ezpass-hack-covert-scanning/

So with the 1970's Bank Secrecy Act, that made your $10,000 cash deposit to a bank no longer a secret, so that the IRS could make sure you were paying your fair share of taxes.... Florida is now requiring people who pay cash and don't use the EzPass like systems to fill out Cash Transaction Reports. http://www.thenewspaper.com/news/39/3904.asp

The MTA PD still refuse to identify what the towers are monitoring, civil rights privacy orgs believe they are facial recognition scanning towers. https://newyork.cbslocal.com/2017/09/27/mysterious-metal-towers The good news is that all those drivers driving around by themselves with masks on are probably evading this surveillance.

 

[trader1]

For the most part, I do not mind the cameras ( except the red light ones and the revenue raisers .. ie. speed cameras)

If a crime is being committed or LE needs to keep someone under surveillance- more power to them. I refer to a violent felon or something along those serious lines..

Maybe I’ll take some flack here, but if serious crimes can be prevented by the eye on the sky — that’s good..

also must have to assume the justice system works as it’s supposed to ( warrants etc)

 

[trader1]

Oh yea.. I’m also all for facial recognition software. I’ve got nothing to hide —

Used properly, of course

 

[TheRicker]

They are watching everything...

A lot of those "camera's" are really ezpass sensors (to do traffic volume and speed calculations at their most benign iteration) they are what updates the "travel time" InfoDOT program signs all along the highways. But when has any government surveillance program not expanded to more nefarious purposes.

The "Police State" of America monitors you here is another way...
#NYDOT tracks drivers using RFID in E-ZPass. A reminder that anything that tracks can be used in unanticipated ways:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmi...ead-all-over-new-york-not-just-at-toll-booths

A hacktivist, made his ez-pass signal every time he drove by an EzPass reader, and most are not anywhere near any toll roads/bridges
https://hackaday.com/2013/09/16/modified-e-zpass-detects-reads-far-from-toll-booths/
https://www.popsci.com/article/diy/ezpass-hack-covert-scanning/

So with the 1970's Bank Secrecy Act, that made your $10,000 cash deposit to a bank no longer a secret, so that the IRS could make sure you were paying your fair share of taxes.... Florida is now requiring people who pay cash and don't use the EzPass like systems to fill out Cash Transaction Reports. http://www.thenewspaper.com/news/39/3904.asp

The MTA PD still refuse to identify what the towers are monitoring, civil rights privacy orgs believe they are facial recognition scanning towers. https://newyork.cbslocal.com/2017/09/27/mysterious-metal-towers The good news is that all those drivers driving around by themselves with masks on are probably evading this surveillance.

In regards to ez-pass readers. If you see a sign on the highway and it says "30 minutes to route 110" that's how they get those estimated times. There are "readers" all along the highway. Also your cellphone is "pinging & triangulating" the whole drive also as it bounces off cell towers.

 

[antwerp1701]

In regards to ez-pass readers. If you see a sign on the highway and it says "30 minutes to route 110" that's how they get those estimated times. There are "readers" all along the highway. Also your cellphone is "pinging & triangulating" the whole drive also as it bounces off cell towers.

All that pinging and triangulating is how former New England Patriot Aaron Hernandez was convicted of murder. The police followed the electronic trail left behind by his cell phone.

 

[steveoo1970]

Lol. God forbid any of us try to run for political office. We’d be crucified and hung by our scrotums once they unveil our UG accounts…..

 

[Monty_monty]

Lol. God forbid any of us try to run for political office. We’d be crucified and hung by our scrotums once they unveil our UG accounts…..

add in any of your questionable recreational personal drug choices, though those are becoming less of an issue

 

[Bricktop]

Lol. God forbid any of us try to run for political office. We’d be crucified and hung by our scrotums once they unveil our UG accounts…..

How would they know

 

[steveoo1970]

How would they know

If you dig hard enough, you can find out anything. Log onto UG from your cell phone on your lunch break? It can be traced. When buying a new router ,it’s now common practice to register it. Associate it with an email address. Download it’s app on your cell phone so you can remotely log into it. Everything is traceable. Wanna find out how murder someone with out a trace? Don’t look that shit up on a cell phone or through your router. It’s as good as a confession. Don’t take your cell phone to a potential crime scene. They’ll pin point you at the scene of the crime.

As great of an invention the internet is. It’s also hides our biggest secrets.

True story. I was trying to get hold of a well know provider on my burner phone a few months ago. I felt like I called her one to many times. I Thought maybe she was ignoring my call attempts. So I called one time on my personal phone. She still didn’t answer. But My wife the next day said she got a spam text asking if she wanted to find out if I was cheating or not. First time she ever got a text like that. And Our phones are under the same account. So is it just Coincidence?? Personally I don’t think so…