'See Something, Say Something' gone crazy: Univ. goes into lockdown over student with a cellphone in front pocket
GA - The person of interest who prompted a lockdown of the state’s third largest university posed no threat to the campus community, officials said this afternoon.
About 2 p.m., Kennesaw State officials received a call about a suspicious man on campus with a possible weapon and put the school on lockdown as a precaution, university spokeswoman Tammy DeMel told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution in an emailed statement.
According to an emergency alert on KSU’s website, the suspicious man was on the Campus Green, the center of the north Cobb County campus.
KSU biology major Carly D’Allen and computer science major Matthew Crowley said the Campus Green was full of students when the lockdown began. They did not see or hear anything suspicious, and they were unaware of any problem until a siren came on telling everybody to move inside.
At one point during the lockdown, political science and international affairs department chair Kerwin Swint said he could see police “crawling over the study center parking lot” from his office.
But by 3:30 p.m., the university lifted the lockdown and said the unidentified person of interest had no weapon.
“Police found the individual with a cell phone in his pocket and confirmed that he was not a threat and never posed a threat to the community,” officials said in a statement.
DHS has been successful in creating a nation of 'See Something Say Something' fearful Americans, who see terrorists everywhere!
Make no mistake Americans spying on each other is only going to get worse, your grandparents fought oppressive regimes like Nazi Germany, Imperial Japan & Communism because they spied on & jailed millions of their own citizens.
Young Americans fought & died in two world wars etc., to fight oppressive regimes. What will it take for the public so to see what's happened to America all in the name of terrorism (capitalism).
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http://www.ajc.com/news/news/ksu-reportedly-on-lockdown/nfhky/?ecmp=ajc_social_facebook_2014_sfp
Police are using armored surveillance vehicles to spy on innocent Americans 24/7:
the Fort Lauderdale Police Department has deployed “The Peacemaker,” which is an armored bank truck converted into a surveillance powerhouse.
The police purchased the discontinued armored truck from Brink’s for $10 then retrofitted it with cameras on all of the bullet-proof windows and it now has the ability to stream live panoramic video to the police headquarters for up to 700 hours.
The truck is unmanned and emblazoned with slogans which read, “Warning: You are under video surveillance” and “Whatcha gonna do when we come for you?”
Read more at http://endthelie.com/2012/01/29/police-usage-of-armored-surveillance-vehicles-becoming-more-widespread-across-the-united-states/#GlJkLU1QgVTxg5KY.99
Several police departments in the U.S. have also adopted mobile video surveillance. The Fort Lauderdale police dept. claims spying on everyone lowers crime rates.
What isn't discussed is why DHS is providing armored mobile surveillance vehicles to police departments nationwide.
The Lafayette police dept. in Indiana is just another example of police using armored vehicles to spy on innocent citizens.
The police purchased the discontinued armored truck from Brink’s for $10 then retrofitted it with cameras on all of the bullet-proof windows and it now has the ability to stream live panoramic video to the police headquarters for up to 700 hours.
The truck is unmanned and emblazoned with slogans which read, “Warning: You are under video surveillance” and “Whatcha gonna do when we come for you?”
“The beautiful thing about the Peacemaker is that it is capable of 24-hour surveillance, 7 days a week,” Mandell said. “This form of surveillance is quite unlike surveillance by deploying police officers physically where the officers have to constantly attend to calls. When they have to respond to a call, they might have to leave an area even it is a hot spot area.”
“Make no mistakes about it,” Detective Travis Mandell told the Sun-Sentinel. “We want people to know that we are watching the bad guys.” “People who do not like the Peacemaker are usually those who commit crime,” he said. “For us, we see it as a dramatic tool that not only deters crime but also helps us in removing criminals off the streets. We have experienced an increase in community support toward this method of surveillance too. So it is a win-win,” Mandell said. WTF? Police consider anyone who doesn't want to be spied on 24/7 a criminal.
It seems that they aren’t under the impression that they’ll actually catch people with the video captured by the Peacemaker, instead hoping that just having it present will act to deter crime in a significant way.
The Ft. Lauderdale police have two of these trucks, the second one being a converted from a former SWAT vehicle.
The police take the trucks to street corners which have problems with crime along with outside the houses of suspected drug dealers, a move which many might consider harassment. In Ottumwa, Iowa, for instance, where mobile video surveillance was first deployed in 2011, concerned residents who were uncomfortable about cameras snooping into their neighborhood voiced their complaints. Click here to read more about Ottumwa's spying.the Fort Lauderdale Police Department has deployed “The Peacemaker,” which is an armored bank truck converted into a surveillance powerhouse.
The police purchased the discontinued armored truck from Brink’s for $10 then retrofitted it with cameras on all of the bullet-proof windows and it now has the ability to stream live panoramic video to the police headquarters for up to 700 hours.
The truck is unmanned and emblazoned with slogans which read, “Warning: You are under video surveillance” and “Whatcha gonna do when we come for you?”
Read more at http://endthelie.com/2012/01/29/police-usage-of-armored-surveillance-vehicles-becoming-more-widespread-across-the-united-states/#GlJkLU1QgVTxg5KY.99the Fort Lauderdale Police Department has deployed “The Peacemaker,” which is an armored bank truck converted into a surveillance powerhouse.
The police purchased the discontinued armored truck from Brink’s for $10 then retrofitted it with cameras on all of the bullet-proof windows and it now has the ability to stream live panoramic video to the police headquarters for up to 700 hours.
The truck is unmanned and emblazoned with slogans which read, “Warning: You are under video surveillance” and “Whatcha gonna do when we come for you?”
The strategy behind the Peacemaker is simple, almost laughably so. They believe that just leaving it in parked in areas in which there is a crime problem will act to curb criminal activity.
“Make no mistakes about it,” Detective Travis Mandell told the Sun-Sentinel. “We want people to know that we are watching the bad guys.”
It seems that they aren’t under the impression that they’ll actually catch people with the video captured by the Peacemaker, instead hoping that just having it present will act to deter crime in a significant way.
The Ft. Lauderdale police have two of these trucks, the second one being a converted from a former SWAT vehicle.
The police take the trucks to street corners which have problems with crime along with outside the houses of suspected drug dealers, a move which many might consider harassment.
Read more at http://endthelie.com/2012/01/29/police-usage-of-armored-surveillance-vehicles-becoming-more-widespread-across-the-united-states/#GlJkLU1QgVTxg5KY.99the Fort Lauderdale Police Department has deployed “The Peacemaker,” which is an armored bank truck converted into a surveillance powerhouse.
The police purchased the discontinued armored truck from Brink’s for $10 then retrofitted it with cameras on all of the bullet-proof windows and it now has the ability to stream live panoramic video to the police headquarters for up to 700 hours.
The truck is unmanned and emblazoned with slogans which read, “Warning: You are under video surveillance” and “Whatcha gonna do when we come for you?”
The strategy behind the Peacemaker is simple, almost laughably so. They believe that just leaving it in parked in areas in which there is a crime problem will act to curb criminal activity.
“Make no mistakes about it,” Detective Travis Mandell told the Sun-Sentinel. “We want people to know that we are watching the bad guys.”
It seems that they aren’t under the impression that they’ll actually catch people with the video captured by the Peacemaker, instead hoping that just having it present will act to deter crime in a significant way.
The Ft. Lauderdale police have two of these trucks, the second one being a converted from a former SWAT vehicle.
The police take the trucks to street corners which have problems with crime along with outside the houses of suspected drug dealers, a move which many might consider harassment.
Read more at http://endthelie.com/2012/01/29/police-usage-of-armored-surveillance-vehicles-becoming-more-widespread-across-the-united-states/#GlJkLU1QgVTxg5KY.99the Fort Lauderdale Police Department has deployed “The Peacemaker,” which is an armored bank truck converted into a surveillance powerhouse.
The police purchased the discontinued armored truck from Brink’s for $10 then retrofitted it with cameras on all of the bullet-proof windows and it now has the ability to stream live panoramic video to the police headquarters for up to 700 hours.
The truck is unmanned and emblazoned with slogans which read, “Warning: You are under video surveillance” and “Whatcha gonna do when we come for you?”
The strategy behind the Peacemaker is simple, almost laughably so. They believe that just leaving it in parked in areas in which there is a crime problem will act to curb criminal activity.
“Make no mistakes about it,” Detective Travis Mandell told the Sun-Sentinel. “We want people to know that we are watching the bad guys.”
It seems that they aren’t under the impression that they’ll actually catch people with the video captured by the Peacemaker, instead hoping that just having it present will act to deter crime in a significant way.
The Ft. Lauderdale police have two of these trucks, the second one being a converted from a former SWAT vehicle.
The police take the trucks to street corners which have problems with crime along with outside the houses of suspected drug dealers, a move which many might consider harassment.
Read more at http://endthelie.com/2012/01/29/police-usage-of-armored-surveillance-vehicles-becoming-more-widespread-across-the-united-states/#GlJkLU1QgVTxg5KY.99
http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/2012-01-27/news/fl-neighborhood-crime-surveillance-20120126_1_armored-truck-police-roll-brinks
http://www.govtech.com/public-safety/Police-in-Fort-Lauderdale-Turn-Loose-The-Peacemaker.html
Police are now geo-tagging your tweets to predict whether you'll commit a crime:
Police departments in New York City may soon be using geo-tagged tweets to predict crime. It sounds like a far-fetched sci-fi scenario a la Minority Report, but when I contacted Dr. Matthew Greber, the University of Virginia researcher behind the technology, he explained that the system is far more mathematical than metaphysical.
The system Greber has devised is an amalgam of both old and new techniques. Currently, many police departments target hot spots for criminal activity based on actual occurrences of crime. This approach, called kernel density estimation (KDE), involves pairing a historical crime record with a geographic location and using a probability function to calculate the possibility of future crimes occurring in that area. While KDE is a serviceable approach to anticipating crime, it pales in comparison to the dynamism of Twitter’s real-time data stream, according to Dr. Gerber’s research paper “Predicting Crime Using Twitter and Kernel Density Estimation”.
Dr. Greber’s approach is similar to KDE, but deals in the ethereal realm of data and language, not paperwork. The system involves mapping the Twitter environment; much like how police currently map the physical environment with KDE. The big difference is that Greber is looking at what people are talking about in real time, as well as what they do after the fact, and seeing how well they match up. The algorithms look for certain language that is likely to indicate the imminent occurrence of a crime in the area, Greber says. “We might observe people talking about going out, getting drunk, going to bars, sporting events, and so on—we know that these sort of events correlate with crime, and that’s what the models are picking up on.”
"So if I tweet about getting drunk tonight, and a lot of people are talking about getting drunk, we know there are certain crimes associated with those things that produce crimes. It's indirect."
Once this data is collected, the GPS tags in tweets allows Greber and his team to pin them to a virtual map and outline hot spots for potential crime. However, everyone who tweets about hitting the club later isn’t necessarily going to commit a crime. Greber tests the accuracy of his approach by comparing Twitter-based KDE predictions with traditional KDE predictions based on police data alone. The big question is, does it work? For Greber, the answer is a firm “sometimes.” “It helps for some, and it hurts for others,” he says.
Gerber said even tweets that have no direct link to crimes may contain information about activities often associated with them.
"What people are tweeting about are their routine activities," Gerber told AFP. "Those routine activities take them into environments where crime is likely to happen.
To give you an idea of how this technology can be used to not only predict traditional crimes but domestic terrorism related activity, consider an earlier report out of Auburn, NY which indicates that the Department of Homeland Security is asking local businesses to keep an eye out for terrorists going so far as to provide retailers with a shopping list of possible items a terrorist might purchase such as MRE’s (Meals Ready to Eat), flashlights and other products readily available at local surplus shops and camping stores. The implications of these new algorithms, which will be taught that anyone discussing the purchase or ownership of these types of items should be flagged for review and visited by Homeland Security personnel as a person of interest, are staggering.
With the definitions for domestic terrorism being expanded to include everyone from kids making gun-like gestures with their hands to Americans joining a large protest against government over-reach, it’s only a matter of time before just about every American with a gripe or opposing view is flagged, investigated and incarcerated for a “crime” that they “may” commit in the future.
http://motherboard.vice.com/blog/twitter-can-predict-crime-raising-serious-and-urgent-questions
http://news.msn.com/science-technology/researchers-use-twitter-to-predict-crime
http://www.shtfplan.com/headline-news/pre-crime-systems-now-actively-monitoring-the-internet-the-computer-algorithm-learns-the-pattern-and-produces-a-prediction_04232014
Private companies & our govt. are spying on your social media comments & credit worthiness:
A White House review of how the government and private sector use large sets of data has found that such information could be used to discriminate against Americans on issues such as housing and employment even as it makes their lives easier in many ways.
"Big data" is everywhere.
It allows mapping apps to ping cellphones anonymously and determine, in real time, what roads are the most congested. But it also can be used to target economically vulnerable people.
Civil rights leaders, for example, raised in discussions with the White House the issue of employers who use data to map where job applicants live and then rate them based on that, particularly in low-paying service jobs.
"While big data is revolutionizing commerce and government for the better, it is also supercharging the potential for discrimination," said Wade Henderson, president and chief executive officer of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights.
The concept of putting people into categories, or "segmenting," for marketing purposes is not new, said Eric Siegel, an expert in predictive analytics, which is the art of determining what to do with data on behaviors ranging from shopping habits to criminal activity.
Some employers might worry that if an applicant lives far enough away from a job, he or she may not stay in the position for long. As more jobs move out of the city and into the suburbs, this could create a hiring system based on class.
"You're essentially being dinged for a job for really arbitrary characteristics," said Chris Calabrese, a lawyer with the American Civil Liberties Union. "Use of this data has a real impact on peoples' lives."
The civil rights advocates could not offer specific examples of such injustices, but instead talked about how the data could be used in a discriminatory way.
Federal employment laws don't address this nuanced tactic, Calabrese said. Similarly, anti-discrimination laws for housing make it illegal to target customers based on credit reports. But the laws don't address the use of other data points that could group people into clusters based on information gleaned from social media.
For instance, companies sell data amassed from social media sites that clumps people into clusters, such as the "Ethnic Second-City Struggler" category. A bank could target people who posted something on social media about losing a job as a likely candidate for a high-interest loan. The idea is that a person who lost a job may be behind on mortgage payments and might be open to a high-interest loan to help get out of a bind, Calabrese said.
"You are individually targeted for a loan based on inclusion on one of these lists and get a high interest rate. That is in spite of the fact that if you walked in off the street you might qualify for a lower rate. You never know that you are being targeted individually since you just click on an ad on the side of a website," Calabrese explained. "That is the discrimination."
It is no longer possible to determine the difference between employees of the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) or the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the employees of companies such as Booz Allen, who have integrated to the extent that they slip from one role in industry to another in government, cross-promoting each other and self-dealing in ways that make the fabled revolving door redundant, if not completely disorienting.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/04/26/big-data-discrimination_n_5217990.html
http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-national-security-industrial-complex-and-nsa-spying-the-revolving-doors-between-state-agencies-and-private-contractors/5339634