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CIO February 15, 2004 Richard Pastore |
Taking IT to the Street How the Chicago Police Department used technology to fight crime and become the first Grand CIO Enterprise Value Award winner. |
Wired April 21, 2008 Noah Shachtman |
NYC Is Getting a New High Tech Defense Perimeter. Let's Hope It Works. New York has an audacious blueprint to wrap a high tech cloak around lower Manhattan. |
IEEE Spectrum June 2007 Sweet & Cass |
How to Fight Crime in Real Time New York City's Real Time Crime Center enables officers to extract information from integrated databases and send it immediately to investigators in the field. Displays are tailored to the situation at hand. |
Wired March 2007 Ethan Watters |
Shot Spotter Last year there were 148 homicides in Oakland. Today, when someone fires a gun on a city street, a network of hidden microphones kicks in triangulating the exact location and alerting police. |
Reason February 2007 Greg Beato |
Rant: Smile, You're on the Telescreen Surveillance cameras certainly lead to more surveillance cameras, but do they lead to less crime? Perhaps it's best to oppose the post-9/11 surveillance boom on grounds of government waste rather than privacy. |
Reason October 2002 Kopel & Krause |
Face the Facts Facial recognition technology's troubled past -- and troubling future |
Wired December 2001 Adam L. Penenberg |
The Surveillance Society Cell phones that pinpoint your location. Cameras that track your every move. Subway cards that remember. We routinely sacrifice privacy for convenience and security. So stop worrying. And get ready for your close-up... |
Fast Company November 1, 2007 Mark Lacter |
Wi-Fi Meets The Wire Motorola's high-speed wireless networks give cops slick new tools to fight crime. |
Mother Jones Nov/Dec 2001 Julie Wakefield |
A Face in the Crowd Is surveillance software turning police into Robocops? |
Popular Mechanics January 2008 Glenn Harlan Reynolds |
Watching the Watchers: Why Surveillance Is a Two-Way Street If governments and businesses can keep an eye on us in public spaces, we ought to be able to look back. |
IEEE Spectrum July 2006 Justin Mullins |
Ring of Steel II The ring of steel, one of the most sophisticated security systems on the planet, is a network of cameras that provides comprehensive video coverage of a large part of the City of London. Now other cities want to follow London's lead, with New York City at the head of the queue. |
Reason Aug/Sep 2001 Gene Callahan & William Anderson |
The Roots of Racial Profiling Why are police targeting minorities for traffic stops? |
Popular Mechanics June 2006 Brad Reagan |
Public Defenders Protecting America's cities, ports, borders and airports requires new technology and new tactics. |
IDB America Jul/Aug 2000 Paul Constance |
Police we deserve How one city reversed a rising spiral of crime and restored public trust in law enforcement... |
Popular Mechanics August 2009 |
6 Mods for the Ultimate High-Tech Police Car The typical cop car isn't born -- it's slapped together. Traditionally, this involved taking a production vehicle, bolting on a reinforced bumper and adding some lights and a divider between the front and back seats. |
IDB America June 2004 Charo Quesada |
The People's Police Why the residents of Bogota have come to love their police force, after years of suspicion and resentment. |
T.H.E. Journal December 2002 Katie Garza |
School Security Moves Into the Digital Age While VHS-based surveillance technology and real-time closed-circuit TV monitoring are widely used in schools today, several districts in Texas and Oklahoma have taken their surveillance systems into the digital age. |
Popular Mechanics January 2008 James Vlahos |
Surveillance Society: New High-Tech Cameras Are Watching You Advanced monitoring systems are proliferating around the country. |
Wired March 2006 David Downs |
Dragnet, Reinvented The City of Angels is stolen-car hell. But the mean streets just got a lot meaner for bad guys. On patrol with the LAPD's high-speed plate-reading network. |
Reason January 2002 Michael W. Lynch |
Battlefield Conversions Reason talks with three ex-warriors who now fight against the War on Drugs... |
InternetNews April 8, 2005 Susan Kuchinskas |
Fresno Cops to Get Broadband Wireless IBM will build a next-generation communications system for real-time images and communications. |
Salon.com July 9, 2001 David Horowitz |
Cops are not to blame Who is responsible for the recent killings of blacks in Cincinnati? Liberals and "civil rights" crusaders... |
CIO September 15, 2005 Malcolm Wheatley |
London's Cameras In the eyes of the British public, CCTV has become the police's first port of call and a high-tech crime-fighting tool. Yet police receive no special training in analyzing CCTV footage, nor any high-tech tools, a technical support officer. |
Salon.com September 29, 2000 Sarah Ferguson |
Keeping an eye on protesters International authorities are sharing information -- not all of it accurate -- about anti-globalization activists... |
Reason Aug/Sep 2009 Radley Balko |
Freedom Blasters A Chicago alderman takes on property rights and free speech. |
Job Journal October 28, 2007 |
Career Snapshot: Police Officer Police officers can be sure of steady demand for their courage and dedication. |
Wired December 20, 2007 Eric Steuer |
Look Out, Baddies, YouTube Neighborhood Watch Has Its Eye on You Ordinary people use YouTube to bring attention to criminals. |
Reason June 2008 Radley Balko |
'30 Years of Failure' A conversation about the war on drugs with Ed Burns, co-creator of The Wire. |
PC World December 27, 2002 Stephen Lawson |
Yes, You Are Being Watched At home and in the office--and everywhere in between--you could be under legal digital surveillance. |
Reason October 2005 Kerry Howley |
Police Tricks Chicago's police department posts online pictures, names, and partial addresses of the city's alleged johns in effort to "out" them and shame them straight. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics March 2006 John McHale |
Lockheed Martin Applies Surveillance Technology to Keep Marines Safe in Iraq Lockheed Martin experts, together with the Chicago and Los Angeles police departments, are employing counter-insurgency (COIN) surveillance technology to support urban operations conducted by the U.S. Marine Corps in Iraq. |
National Defense July 2006 Grace Jean |
Sensor-Fusion Software Technology Replacing Traditional Security Systems As more and more security cameras are being installed around the globe, companies are developing software solutions and other technologies that increasingly advance the intelligence of such monitoring systems. |
Salon.com July 26, 2000 Valeria Russ |
My son loves cops How and when do I tell him about Amadou Diallo? |
CIO February 15, 2004 Richard Pastore |
Police Power Coming Up Behind You The Chicago Police Department is using technology to prevent crime and save lives, but its data warehouse could be dangerous if accessed by the wrong hands. |
Salon.com April 14, 2001 Earl Ofari Hutchinson |
Cincinnati's killer cops Black leaders want the feds to investigate the city's trigger-happy police. They shouldn't hold their breath... |
PC Magazine November 14, 2007 Heather Eng |
Inside the Ring of Steel A behind-the-scenes look at New York City's planned web of surveillance. |
Salon.com August 14, 2000 Jesse Walker |
War on protesters The militarization of police strategies on display this convention season has cops fighting demonstrators, not crime. |
Salon.com October 19, 2000 Ashley Fantz |
Fatal mistake In a outrageous example of police incompetence, cops burst into the wrong home during a drug raid and kill an elderly African-American man... |
T.H.E. Journal November 2007 Matt Villano |
Does the Eye Spy? Around-the-clock video surveillance is the Holy Grail of K-12 safety efforts. But it raises many questions, including whether or not the cameras are a wholly benign presence. |
InternetNews September 22, 2009 |
Canada Uses IBM BI Software to Fight Crime Edmonton police are the latest to use business intelligence apps to identify crime hot spots. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics February 2008 Courtney E. Howard |
Smart Sensors Homeland security and military personnel increasingly rely on intelligent sensor technology for surveillance and electronic intelligence. |
Wired September 25, 2007 Eric Mack |
Cops Test Cannon That Fires Sticky GPS Beacons at Fleeing Cars New device allows police to track vehicles from a distance. |
Salon.com November 1, 2000 Earl Ofari Hutchinson |
Killer cops The slaying of actor Anthony Dwain Lee by a black officer is evidence that many black cops have the same prejudices as their white colleagues... |
ifeminists November 18, 2003 Rex Curry |
Government Schools and Unconstitutional Searches As an attorney, I believe that government schools should be unconstitutional under the Fourth Amendment ban of unreasonable searches. The recent police-state raid in Goose Creek, South Carolina is another in the growing list of proofs. |
Reason July 2009 |
Neighborhood Watch What do you do when a city is too cash-strapped to pay for adequate policing? If you're Chicago, you consider giving private security guards the authority to issue tickets for littering, graffiti, parking violations, and other minor infractions. |
Salon.com June 18, 2001 Katharine Mieszkowski |
Nowhere left to hide Whether you're in jail or at the supermarket, your image might be shown on the Net, and there's not a thing you can do about it... |
National Defense September 2009 Stew Magnuson |
New Northern Border Camera System to Avoid Past Pitfalls The Border Patrol will be begin work this year to install a series of cameras north of Detroit with one motto in mind: keep it simple. |
Scientific American February 2009 Michael Moyer |
Will the Recession Spark a Crime Wave? The bad economy doesn't necessarily mean we're headed for armageddon, argue some researchers. But maybe they've been looking at the wrong data |
Inc. April 1, 2003 Robert X. Cringely |
What's Next: Introducing the CamPuter Imagine 10 million surveillance cameras, digitized and linked. |
AskMen.com Steve Richer |
How To: Cope With Robbery What you should do if you find that you've been robbed, and preventative measures you can take. |