{"id":253,"date":"2006-01-19T11:03:34","date_gmt":"2006-01-19T17:03:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/?p=253"},"modified":"2006-01-19T11:04:30","modified_gmt":"2006-01-19T17:04:30","slug":"land-of-the-brave-home-of-the-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/land-of-the-brave-home-of-the-free\/","title":{"rendered":"Land of the Brave, Home of the Free"},"content":{"rendered":"

First, we simply have corporate welfare going on with the Feds underwriting <\/p>\n

the purchase of this technology — along with all the military gear police now use. Second, we have a population growing used to always <\/p>\n

being watched — and perfectly fine with that. mjh<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Federal Grants Bring <\/p>\n

Surveillance Cameras to Small Towns<\/a>
\nVillage in Vermont Has Almost as Many as D.C.
\nBy David A. Fahrenthold, Washington Post <\/p>\n

Staff Writer<\/p>\n

This snowy village [of Bellows Falls, Vt. — population 3,050] , in the shadow of Fall Mountain and alongside the <\/p>\n

iced-over Connecticut River, is the kind of place where a little of anything usually suffices. There are just eight full-time police <\/p>\n

officers on the town’s force, two chairs in the barbershop and one screen in the theater.<\/p>\n

A little of anything — except <\/p>\n

surveillance cameras. Bellows Falls has decided it needs 16 of those.<\/p>\n

Using federal grant money, police plan to put up the <\/p>\n

24-hour cameras at such spots as intersections, a sewage plant and the town square. All told, this hamlet will have just three <\/p>\n

fewer police surveillance cameras than the District of Columbia, which has 181 times Bellows Falls’s population.<\/strong> …<\/p>\n

On <\/p>\n

Maryland’s Eastern Shore, for example, Ridgely Police Chief Merl Evans got a homeland security grant, funneled through the state, to pay <\/p>\n

for five cameras apiece in Ridgely, population 1,300, and Preston, population 573. The cameras went up on water towers, at water-<\/p>\n

treatment plants and in the two small downtowns.<\/p>\n

“It was difficult to be able to find something to use the money <\/p>\n

for,”<\/strong> said Evans [mjh: because the Congress makes sure you can only spend it on things that enrich their <\/p>\n

contributors.]<\/span>, who is also temporary chief in Preston. He said because the grants needed to be used on “target hardening” — <\/p>\n

protecting infrastructure — “the cameras fit in real nice.” …<\/p>\n

“What you do in <\/p>\n

public, you’ve got no expectation of privacy,” said Police Chief Rick Clark.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

First, we simply have corporate welfare going on with the Feds underwriting the purchase of this technology — along with all the military gear police now use. Second, we have a population growing used to always being watched — and perfectly fine with that. mjh Federal Grants Bring Surveillance Cameras to Small Towns Village in … Continue reading Land of the Brave, Home of the Free<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dump-duhbya"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}