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The Police Cameras Found a Way Around the Public Meeting
· New York time
New York City police surveillance systems were paid for and adopted without the kind of public oversight cities usually require, NPR reported. The finding raises questions about how decisions to introduce monitoring tools are made and how much the public can learn about them. Surveillance affects people who may never have been consulted about its use. Public oversight offers a chance to examine what technology is acquired and how an agency intends to use it. When that process is bypassed, the cameras may be visible while the decisions behind them are harder to find. The contrast is an unusually tidy one: a system designed to observe the city was assembled without the customary level of observation by the public. New Yorkers can be watched on a street while trying to work out who approved the watching. The equipment has a field of view; the paperwork deserves one too.
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