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A rough proposal was outlined in a \u003ca href=\"http://www.sanjoseca.gov/DocumentCenter/View/37623\">PowerPoint presentation\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the limits of the proposal, critics like Charlotte Casey of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sanjosepeace.org/\" target=\"_blank\">San Jose Peace and Justice Center\u003c/a> argued that the public is wary, given the way drones are used for international warfare. \"I understand that they [domestic drones] are not armed,\" Casey said during the public comment period of the Nov. 13 meeting, \"but the idea right away makes people fearful.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There's another fear, expressed by many from civil libertarians to Muslim-American rights groups: \"mission creep,\" the gradual expansion of the list of possible uses for drones after a police department has gotten an initial go-ahead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Jose Police Department is not the only California law enforcement agency to purchase small unmanned aerial surveillance devices. The \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-anti-drone-campaign-lapd-city-hall-20140821-story.html\" target=\"_blank\">LAPD\u003c/a> has as well, and Alameda County Sheriff Greg Ahern recently announced that he used money from his own department to \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/crime-courts/ci_27059034/alameda-county-sheriff-buys-two-drones\" target=\"_blank\">purchase drones\u003c/a> after being blocked from using federal money. Here's the \u003ca href=\"http://www.docstoc.com/docs/173217330/Alameda%20County%20Sheriff%20Greg%20Ahern%27s%20new%20policy%20on%20drones\" target=\"_blank\">general order\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In November, the ACLU issued a \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclunc.org/sites/default/files/Smart%20About%20Surveillance.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">report\u003c/a> on the increasing use of digital surveillance by law enforcement agencies in California. On a recent edition of \u003cem>KQED Newsroom\u003c/em>, Nicole Ozer of the ACLU of Northern California said, \"We see cities and counties up and down the state of California spending vast sums on surveillance technology: everything from license plate readers to facial recognition to drones. ... More than $65 million. And with little to no public debate, very little consideration of the costs and benefits and very few policies in place to make sure that misuse doesn't happen.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/V4sZsgHeRvM\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ozer went on to say, \"What we've seen consistently is the inconsistency that's happening up and down the state. ... 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In his \u003ca href=\"http://gov.ca.gov/docs/AB_1327_Veto_Message.pdf\">veto message\u003c/a>, Brown said the bill was too narrow and “could impose requirements beyond what is required by either the Fourth Amendment or the privacy provisions in the California Constitution.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Federal Aviation Administration is still trying to determine how to regulate its use to protect aircraft. While that process continues, private drone use by filmmakers, scientists and hobbyists is skyrocketing. U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein recently announced she intends to\u003ca href=\"http://www.feinstein.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/press-releases?ID=d1339018-7751-415e-bcf7-74c05e8fb4fa\" target=\"_blank\"> introduce a bill \u003c/a>to strengthen federal laws. Her statement also urged the FAA to get a move on, noting \"it must aggressively confront this challenge now, before an airliner is brought down.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Jose Police spokesman Albert Gonzales says the department will not use its drone until it gets FAA approval, and the San Jose City Council has an opportunity to review and influence the agency's drone policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Saturday's community outreach meeting, hosted by the Neighborhoods Commission, will be held from 10 a.m. to noon at San Jose City Hall, 200 East Santa Clara St., in the Wing, Committee Room 120.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>We are being \u003ci>watched\u003c/i>. When we go through an airport, drive through a toll booth or use public transit, there are cameras. Lots and lots of cameras.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cb> \u003c/b>\u003c/i>During an afternoon commute this week, some riders on the Bay Area Rapid Transit, or BART, said they know they're being watched.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's weird to be watched,\" said Heather Dickison from El Sobrante. \"But if it's for safety, then I guess part of it is because there's been a lot of violence maybe on BART and they wanna know the whole story.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'I think there’s been a certain tolerance that has developed to [surveillance] and as time goes on it wouldn’t surprise me if the tolerance increases'\u003ccite>Benson Fairow, BART deputy police chief\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\u003ci> \u003c/i>Commuter Loren Crippin from Oakland said he also feels ambivalent about all that surveillance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I get nervous just seeing or hearing about cameras on all the time. On the other hand, I suppose there's an argument to be made about public safety. But it kind of makes me feel uneasy.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cb> \u003c/b>\u003c/i>BART carries more than 400,000 riders a day. Keeping them safe requires a lot of watchful eyes, says BART Deputy Police Chief Benson Fairow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Don't hold me to it, but there's approximately 1,600 cameras in the system, \" Fairow said this week while standing in one of BART's communication hubs. \"No way they can all be monitored in real time, all the time.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/176977981\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As BART staff kept their eyes on five monitors with rotating images of BART stations, Fairow said that in his 20 years in law enforcement, people have slowly gotten used to being constantly recorded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Yeah, I think there's been a certain tolerance that has developed to it and as time goes on it wouldn't surprise me if the tolerance increases,\" Fairow acknowledged.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And post-9/11, it's no wonder. This week the ACLU of California -- after wading through years of public meeting agendas and minutes for city councils and county legislatures -- issued a \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/report1.pdf\">report\u003c/a> showing that at \u003ci>least\u003c/i> 90 local governments use some form of surveillance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ACLU's Nicole Ozer said that, in most cases, there was little or \u003ci>no\u003c/i> public input before it was used.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10348690\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/TollBoothCameras.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/TollBoothCameras-400x258.jpg\" alt=\"Toll lane cameras at the Golden Gate Bridge toll plaza in San Francisco. 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And when word got out, there was a public uproar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The SJPD backtracked a bit this week at a City Hall meeting of a citizens commission. Deputy Police Chief Dave Hober described the city's new high-tech gadget. He said it's mostly going to be used by the bomb squad to fly over suspicious packages a robot can't get to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It is not currently in use, and will not be used,\" Hober promised, \"unless or until it is determined that this technology is right for San Jose, that the San Jose PD has obtained input from the community and stakeholders, and that the city attorney has reviewed the policies and procedures.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci> \u003c/i>There was a wide range of opinions at the meeting. Robert Sandoval came down on the side of more public safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10348694\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/SkySeer.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/SkySeer-400x248.jpg\" alt=\"In 2006, The Los Angeles Sheriff's Dept. began experimenting with SkySeer drones to carry out surveillance and rescue operations. It marked the first time unmanned aerial vehicles, long used by the military in war zones, were used by law enforcement. (ROBYN BECK/AFP/Getty Images)\" width=\"400\" height=\"248\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10348694\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/SkySeer-400x248.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/SkySeer-800x497.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/SkySeer.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">In 2006, The Los Angeles Sheriff's Dept. began experimenting with SkySeer drones to carry out surveillance and rescue operations. It marked the first time unmanned aerial vehicles, long used by the military in war zones, were used by law enforcement. (ROBYN BECK/AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"I for one also, because of the high rate of crime that we have in our city currently, would support a unit like this,\" Sandoval said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci> \u003c/i>But Charlotte Casey, with the San Jose Peace and Justice Center, said a drone would only make people distrust the police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"NSA spying on us. Google gathering our information. All these Big Brother scenarios also mean that the idea of a spy drone flying overhead is something that would make people wary,\" Casey warned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci> \u003c/i>Deputy Chief Hober did acknowledge the obvious.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In hindsight, \" he said, \"we should have conducted stakeholder outreach prior to obtaining the (drone).\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci> \u003c/i>Santa Clara County Supervisor Joe Simitian chaired a privacy committee when he was in the state Senate. Next week, he'll introduce legislation modeled on the ACLU's recommendation, guiding county acquisition of surveillance technology. Simitian said it will also spell out the kinds of question that need to be asked first. Over the phone, Simitian rattled off some of the questions that should be asked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Do we really need the information?\" he said \"If so how are we going to use it? How are we going to protect people's privacy? How long are we going to keep it for? Who's going to have access? These are all important questions that need to be asked \u003cem>before\u003c/em> we unleash the technology, not after.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10348698\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/SurveillanceCamStoplight.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/SurveillanceCamStoplight-400x469.jpg\" alt=\"A surveillance camera mounted on a stoplight. (Getty Images)\" width=\"400\" height=\"469\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10348698\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/SurveillanceCamStoplight-400x469.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/SurveillanceCamStoplight-800x938.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/SurveillanceCamStoplight.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A surveillance camera mounted on a stoplight. (Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That ACLU report found that over the past 10 years, local governments in California have spent at least $65 million on high-tech security systems. Brian Jackson analyzes technology and policing for the Rand Corp. think tank. He welcomes the public scrutiny recommended this week by the ACLU.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"These are the sort of trade-offs that you've got to have in a democracy, when technology is changing the capabilities of both private citizens and government organizations,\" Jackson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci> \u003c/i>Of course technology is constantly changing the way law enforcement is conducted. BART is now encouraging riders to turn their phones into crime-fighting tools. An online video describes how.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"BART Police is (sic) offering a new way to discreetly report criminal and suspicion activity through a new app available both in IOS and Android is called BART Watch and is simple to use.\" The video goes on to show how the app allows riders to send photos, text information and ask for help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Few BART riders even know about the app. But at least one commuter -- John Kern -- says he'd \u003ci>consider\u003c/i> using it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think that's awesome,\" Kern said. \"It's definitely nice to keep people safe, and something implemented like that is probably a good sign for everyone.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci> \u003c/i>BART's deputy chief, Fairow, understands the public's ambivalence about that privacy versus public safety trade-off. But it's clear where he comes down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In the end, civil liberties are very important, privacy is very important,\" Fairow said. \"But I wouldn't want anybody to get hurt or killed either, so we need that equipment to be able to prevent that type of stuff from happening.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And without a doubt, that equipment is here to stay.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>We are being \u003ci>watched\u003c/i>. When we go through an airport, drive through a toll booth or use public transit, there are cameras. Lots and lots of cameras.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cb> \u003c/b>\u003c/i>During an afternoon commute this week, some riders on the Bay Area Rapid Transit, or BART, said they know they're being watched.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's weird to be watched,\" said Heather Dickison from El Sobrante. \"But if it's for safety, then I guess part of it is because there's been a lot of violence maybe on BART and they wanna know the whole story.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'I think there’s been a certain tolerance that has developed to [surveillance] and as time goes on it wouldn’t surprise me if the tolerance increases'\u003ccite>Benson Fairow, BART deputy police chief\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\u003ci> \u003c/i>Commuter Loren Crippin from Oakland said he also feels ambivalent about all that surveillance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I get nervous just seeing or hearing about cameras on all the time. On the other hand, I suppose there's an argument to be made about public safety. But it kind of makes me feel uneasy.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cb> \u003c/b>\u003c/i>BART carries more than 400,000 riders a day. Keeping them safe requires a lot of watchful eyes, says BART Deputy Police Chief Benson Fairow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Don't hold me to it, but there's approximately 1,600 cameras in the system, \" Fairow said this week while standing in one of BART's communication hubs. \"No way they can all be monitored in real time, all the time.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='100%' height='166'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/176977981&visual=true&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false'\n title='https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/176977981'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As BART staff kept their eyes on five monitors with rotating images of BART stations, Fairow said that in his 20 years in law enforcement, people have slowly gotten used to being constantly recorded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Yeah, I think there's been a certain tolerance that has developed to it and as time goes on it wouldn't surprise me if the tolerance increases,\" Fairow acknowledged.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And post-9/11, it's no wonder. This week the ACLU of California -- after wading through years of public meeting agendas and minutes for city councils and county legislatures -- issued a \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/report1.pdf\">report\u003c/a> showing that at \u003ci>least\u003c/i> 90 local governments use some form of surveillance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ACLU's Nicole Ozer said that, in most cases, there was little or \u003ci>no\u003c/i> public input before it was used.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10348690\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/TollBoothCameras.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/TollBoothCameras-400x258.jpg\" alt=\"Toll lane cameras at the Golden Gate Bridge toll plaza in San Francisco. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\" width=\"400\" height=\"258\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10348690\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/TollBoothCameras-400x258.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/TollBoothCameras-800x517.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/TollBoothCameras.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Toll lane cameras at the Golden Gate Bridge toll plaza in San Francisco. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"Communities weren't even having a public conversation about whether or not to use surveillance technology,\" Ozer says. \"Even basic transparency and accountability and oversight was the exception, not the rule, in California and it definitely needs to be the other way around.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci> \u003c/i>Ozer said that with so many concerns about snooping by the federal government, or even companies like Google and Facebook, public agencies have an obligation to implement and follow some rules on surveillance. The report found this is pretty much not happening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci> \u003c/i>A prominent example of that went down earlier this year in San Jose. The city's Police Department quietly purchased a $7,000 drone with very little public discussion. The item was buried deep inside a City Council agenda with no public notice. And when word got out, there was a public uproar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The SJPD backtracked a bit this week at a City Hall meeting of a citizens commission. Deputy Police Chief Dave Hober described the city's new high-tech gadget. He said it's mostly going to be used by the bomb squad to fly over suspicious packages a robot can't get to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It is not currently in use, and will not be used,\" Hober promised, \"unless or until it is determined that this technology is right for San Jose, that the San Jose PD has obtained input from the community and stakeholders, and that the city attorney has reviewed the policies and procedures.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci> \u003c/i>There was a wide range of opinions at the meeting. Robert Sandoval came down on the side of more public safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10348694\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/SkySeer.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/SkySeer-400x248.jpg\" alt=\"In 2006, The Los Angeles Sheriff's Dept. began experimenting with SkySeer drones to carry out surveillance and rescue operations. It marked the first time unmanned aerial vehicles, long used by the military in war zones, were used by law enforcement. (ROBYN BECK/AFP/Getty Images)\" width=\"400\" height=\"248\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10348694\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/SkySeer-400x248.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/SkySeer-800x497.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/SkySeer.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">In 2006, The Los Angeles Sheriff's Dept. began experimenting with SkySeer drones to carry out surveillance and rescue operations. It marked the first time unmanned aerial vehicles, long used by the military in war zones, were used by law enforcement. (ROBYN BECK/AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"I for one also, because of the high rate of crime that we have in our city currently, would support a unit like this,\" Sandoval said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci> \u003c/i>But Charlotte Casey, with the San Jose Peace and Justice Center, said a drone would only make people distrust the police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"NSA spying on us. Google gathering our information. All these Big Brother scenarios also mean that the idea of a spy drone flying overhead is something that would make people wary,\" Casey warned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci> \u003c/i>Deputy Chief Hober did acknowledge the obvious.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In hindsight, \" he said, \"we should have conducted stakeholder outreach prior to obtaining the (drone).\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci> \u003c/i>Santa Clara County Supervisor Joe Simitian chaired a privacy committee when he was in the state Senate. Next week, he'll introduce legislation modeled on the ACLU's recommendation, guiding county acquisition of surveillance technology. Simitian said it will also spell out the kinds of question that need to be asked first. Over the phone, Simitian rattled off some of the questions that should be asked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Do we really need the information?\" he said \"If so how are we going to use it? How are we going to protect people's privacy? How long are we going to keep it for? Who's going to have access? These are all important questions that need to be asked \u003cem>before\u003c/em> we unleash the technology, not after.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10348698\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/SurveillanceCamStoplight.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/SurveillanceCamStoplight-400x469.jpg\" alt=\"A surveillance camera mounted on a stoplight. (Getty Images)\" width=\"400\" height=\"469\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10348698\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/SurveillanceCamStoplight-400x469.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/SurveillanceCamStoplight-800x938.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/SurveillanceCamStoplight.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A surveillance camera mounted on a stoplight. (Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That ACLU report found that over the past 10 years, local governments in California have spent at least $65 million on high-tech security systems. Brian Jackson analyzes technology and policing for the Rand Corp. think tank. He welcomes the public scrutiny recommended this week by the ACLU.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"These are the sort of trade-offs that you've got to have in a democracy, when technology is changing the capabilities of both private citizens and government organizations,\" Jackson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci> \u003c/i>Of course technology is constantly changing the way law enforcement is conducted. BART is now encouraging riders to turn their phones into crime-fighting tools. An online video describes how.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"BART Police is (sic) offering a new way to discreetly report criminal and suspicion activity through a new app available both in IOS and Android is called BART Watch and is simple to use.\" The video goes on to show how the app allows riders to send photos, text information and ask for help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Few BART riders even know about the app. But at least one commuter -- John Kern -- says he'd \u003ci>consider\u003c/i> using it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think that's awesome,\" Kern said. \"It's definitely nice to keep people safe, and something implemented like that is probably a good sign for everyone.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci> \u003c/i>BART's deputy chief, Fairow, understands the public's ambivalence about that privacy versus public safety trade-off. 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They are one of the very few organizations in the world who put themselves out there and advance the cause of law.” In conclusion, Servin and Vamos announced the recent launch of \u003ca href=\"https://actionswitchboard.net/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Action Switchboard\u003c/a>, an online platform to cultivate action by linking creative activists with a network of support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10143554\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/10/paglengetsaward.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/10/paglengetsaward.jpg\" alt=\"Trevor Paglen receives EFF Pioneer Award; Photo courtesy Alex Schoenfeldt\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10143554\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/10/paglengetsaward.jpg 640w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/10/paglengetsaward-400x266.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Trevor Paglen receives EFF Pioneer Award; Photo courtesy Alex Schoenfeldt\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the address that preceded Paglen’s award, EFF senior designer Hugh D’Andrade talked about the challenge to describe the artist’s practice. (“Do we call him a secrecy artist?’ Or a surveillance artist? We settled on calling him a counter-surveillance artist.”) Paglen’s work engages photography, journalism and geography to explore the boundaries of public access to secret government operations and publicly funded surveillance programs. He is the author of multiple books and has exhibited his artwork around the world, and beyond — as wild as that sounds. (In 2012, I \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/2012/10/09/the_last_pictures_trevor_paglens_artwork_for_outer_space/\">wrote about a project\u003c/a> he developed for outer space.) He recently photographed the headquarters of three secret government agencies, including the NSA, and released the images open source in the digital domain to encourage the public to engage with the government agencies that conceal so much from view.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10143549\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/10/paglennsa.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/10/paglennsa.jpg\" alt=\"National Security Agency (NSA): With a budget request of $10.8 billion, the NSA is the second-largest agency in the U.S. intelligence community. It is headquartered in Fort Meade, Maryland; Photo by Trevor Paglen\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10143549\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/10/paglennsa.jpg 640w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/10/paglennsa-400x266.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">National Security Agency (NSA): With a budget request of $10.8 billion, the NSA is the second-largest agency in the U.S. intelligence community. It is headquartered in Fort Meade, Maryland; Photo by Trevor Paglen\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10143548\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/10/paglennro.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/10/paglennro.jpg\" alt=\"National Reconnaissance Office (NRO): The NRO is in charge of developing, deploying and operating secret reconnaissance satellites. With a budget request of $10.3 billion, it is the third-largest U.S. intelligence agency. It is headquartered in Chantilly, Virginia; Photo by Trevor Paglen\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10143548\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/10/paglennro.jpg 640w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/10/paglennro-400x266.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">National Reconnaissance Office (NRO): The NRO is in charge of developing, deploying and operating secret reconnaissance satellites. With a budget request of $10.3 billion, it is the third-largest U.S. intelligence agency. It is headquartered in Chantilly, Virginia; Photo by Trevor Paglen\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In his introduction, D’Andrade reflected on a conversation with Paglen earlier this year and quoted him as saying, “Secret stuff is made out of the same stuff that the regular non-secret world is made out of,” and noted that this simple observation is one of the great advantages of having an artist on their team of lawyers, activists, and technologies, and why more artists are needed to work on difficult social problems. “Sometimes it takes that type of visionary to cut through and to see the world in a new way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his acceptance speech, Paglen noted that it was personally significant for him to be honored by an organization outside of the art world. “Art can feel very insider-y and hermetic. The reason for that is because it is. But I don’t think art is supposed to be hermetic or obtuse. For me, art is the vehicle by which we learn how to see the historical moment that we live in — and it is important for trying to question the assumptions that we have about the world, the questions that often paralyze us and don’t allow us to imagine what a different world could be like. In many ways, art can be a mirror to the moment that we live in, but I think it can also be a kind of lighthouse.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Images are constantly screaming that we are not beautiful enough, or healthy enough, or powerful enough, that we are illegitimate, or that we are degraded. Most of the time, images tell us to be afraid, to be very, very afraid. But it doesn’t have to be that way. Images can also be very powerful ways of promoting equality and social justice. What would feminism be like, for example, without people like Barbara Kruger, or Judy Chicago, or Martha Rosler? Where would the LGTB movement be without Gran Fury? Where would racial struggle be without Emory Douglas? Where would the fight against global capitalism be without our friends The Yes Men? Images make these struggles part of the visible landscape.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If, over time, certain images come to define the struggles of an era, it is challenging to imagine how the present day culture of secrecy and surveillance will be remembered in images. How do the invisible, often digital, forces of our time — drone warfare, say, or government surveillance or data mining — become part of history’s visible landscape? These questions are the crux of Paglen’s work, and by extension, the work of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. As the trafficking of images and information across the digital domain becomes more nuanced in its influence, the role of artists in challenging the dominant narrative becomes more vital, as does the role of organizations like EFF in supporting artists and others committed to civil liberties. While the so-called art world debates categorizations (\u003cem>Is it art? Or is it activism?\u003c/em>), the Electronic Frontier Foundation recognizes and supports artist-pioneers that are changing the course of history, one image at a time. May many more — artists, organizations, pioneers, et al — rise to the challenge.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Last week San Francisco-based Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), a nonprofit focused on defending civil liberties in the digital domain, hosted its annual Pioneer Awards to recognize leaders who are “extending freedom and innovation in the realm of information technology.” Many key figures in digital enterprise have been recognized, including late digital rights activist Aaron Swartz and journalists Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras. This year’s winners include Guatemalan labor and human rights lawyer Frank La Rue, U. S. Representative Zoe Lofgren, as well as artist Trevor Paglen. It is the first time a visual artist has received the award and it signifies a cultural shift in recognizing the importance of artists in defending civil liberties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On hand to deliver the keynote were Jacques Servin and Igor Vamos, artists and culture jammers otherwise known as The Yes Men, widely recognized for employing tactical media to draw greater attention to important issues, often by disseminating false information via the press to complicate discussions around social politics and environmental concerns. In 2009 they spoofed the U. S. Chamber of Commerce and announced an about-face on climate change — it was widely reported as legitimate news by CNN and Fox News, among other media outlets, before it was revealed to be a hoax.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Within a matter of weeks, the Chamber announced a change in policy, while denying any influence of The Yes Men’s stunt. It later also launched a protracted lawsuit against The Yes Men, who were defended by EFF until the suit was dropped in 2013. During the keynote, Servin said of the lawsuit, “It was nerve wracking, but the EFF is excited about this kind of thing. They are one of the very few organizations in the world who put themselves out there and advance the cause of law.” In conclusion, Servin and Vamos announced the recent launch of \u003ca href=\"https://actionswitchboard.net/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Action Switchboard\u003c/a>, an online platform to cultivate action by linking creative activists with a network of support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10143554\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/10/paglengetsaward.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/10/paglengetsaward.jpg\" alt=\"Trevor Paglen receives EFF Pioneer Award; Photo courtesy Alex Schoenfeldt\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10143554\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/10/paglengetsaward.jpg 640w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/10/paglengetsaward-400x266.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Trevor Paglen receives EFF Pioneer Award; Photo courtesy Alex Schoenfeldt\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the address that preceded Paglen’s award, EFF senior designer Hugh D’Andrade talked about the challenge to describe the artist’s practice. (“Do we call him a secrecy artist?’ Or a surveillance artist? We settled on calling him a counter-surveillance artist.”) Paglen’s work engages photography, journalism and geography to explore the boundaries of public access to secret government operations and publicly funded surveillance programs. He is the author of multiple books and has exhibited his artwork around the world, and beyond — as wild as that sounds. (In 2012, I \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/2012/10/09/the_last_pictures_trevor_paglens_artwork_for_outer_space/\">wrote about a project\u003c/a> he developed for outer space.) He recently photographed the headquarters of three secret government agencies, including the NSA, and released the images open source in the digital domain to encourage the public to engage with the government agencies that conceal so much from view.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10143549\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/10/paglennsa.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/10/paglennsa.jpg\" alt=\"National Security Agency (NSA): With a budget request of $10.8 billion, the NSA is the second-largest agency in the U.S. intelligence community. It is headquartered in Fort Meade, Maryland; Photo by Trevor Paglen\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10143549\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/10/paglennsa.jpg 640w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/10/paglennsa-400x266.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">National Security Agency (NSA): With a budget request of $10.8 billion, the NSA is the second-largest agency in the U.S. intelligence community. It is headquartered in Fort Meade, Maryland; Photo by Trevor Paglen\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10143548\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/10/paglennro.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/10/paglennro.jpg\" alt=\"National Reconnaissance Office (NRO): The NRO is in charge of developing, deploying and operating secret reconnaissance satellites. With a budget request of $10.3 billion, it is the third-largest U.S. intelligence agency. 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It is headquartered in Chantilly, Virginia; Photo by Trevor Paglen\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In his introduction, D’Andrade reflected on a conversation with Paglen earlier this year and quoted him as saying, “Secret stuff is made out of the same stuff that the regular non-secret world is made out of,” and noted that this simple observation is one of the great advantages of having an artist on their team of lawyers, activists, and technologies, and why more artists are needed to work on difficult social problems. “Sometimes it takes that type of visionary to cut through and to see the world in a new way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_133183\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/betty-and-seth.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-133183\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/betty-and-seth-640x480.jpg\" alt=\"Seth Rosenfeld and Betty Medsger in conversaton at the San Francisco City Club. (Patricia Yollin/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Seth Rosenfeld and Betty Medsger in conversation at the San Francisco City Club. (Patricia Yollin/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On March 8, 1971, Richard Nixon was in the White House, the United States was in Vietnam and J. Edgar Hoover was director of the FBI.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Joe Frazier and Muhammad Ali were in New York's Madison Square Garden, fighting for boxing's heavyweight title — an event that eight Pennsylvania residents hoped would deflect attention from their plans for the evening: burglarizing the FBI office in Media, a Philadelphia suburb with the highest concentration of Republicans in the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The burglars were motivated by persistent rumors that the peace and civil rights movements had been infiltrated by spies, said \u003ca href=\"http://www.theburglary.com/biography\" target=\"_blank\">Betty Medsger,\u003c/a> former chair of the journalism department at San Francisco State University. \"But there was no evidence,\" she said. \"So this was a way to determine whether or not it was true.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1971 Medsger was a reporter for the Washington Post, and the burglars were mostly academics and graduate students opposed to the war in Vietnam. They anonymously sent her and four other people copies of the documents they had found, which revealed the FBI's extraordinary efforts to suppress dissent, including its blanket surveillance of black people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Medsger's story about the burglary, which ran in the Post and many other papers around the country, generated outrage and a national discussion about the role of intelligence agencies in a democratic society. Her 608-page book about the heist — and how and why it occurred — came out in January: \"The Burglary: The Discovery of J. Edgar Hoover's Secret FBI.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She was interviewed recently at the San Francisco City Club by freelance journalist \u003ca href=\"http://www.sethrosenfeld.com\" target=\"_blank\">Seth Rosenfeld\u003c/a>, who wrote \"Subversives: The FBI's War on Student Radicals, and Reagan's Rise to Power,\" published in 2012.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was a conversation that could have gone on for weeks. Medsger and Rosenfeld know way more about the FBI than most people on the planet — and probably vice versa. The FBI spent about $1 million to prevent Rosenfeld from getting files he'd requested on Hoover and Ronald Reagan. Medsger, meanwhile, obtained the 34,000-page FBI investigation of the Media burglary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Seth and I should probably have our heads examined,\" Medsger said. \"Both of us have read thousands of pages of FBI documents.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Billed as \"Celebrating Dissent,\" the City Club event was sponsored by S.F. State's \u003ca href=\"http://journalism.sfsu.edu/pages/center-integration-and-improvement-journalism\" target=\"_blank\">Center for Integration and Improvement of Journalism\u003c/a>, which Medsger founded in 1990. Although the journalists' conversation went back 43 years, it could not have been timelier, given Edward Snowden's revelations on National Security Agency surveillance — a subject that led to Pulitzer Prizes for the Washington Post and The Guardian just two days before the City Club event.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'They took every document in the place, and they even took a photo of J. Edgar Hoover.'\u003ccite>Seth Rosenfeld\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Medsger told the crowd she was not nearly as well known as the other two journalists who received the stolen documents — Tom Wicker of the New York Times and Jack Nelson of the Los Angeles Times. She figured her coverage of the peace movement in the late '60s had played a role, and it turned out she was right: Many years later, she found out that two of her activist acquaintances in Philadelphia were among the burglars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eventually, she learned the identities of seven of the eight, and told their stories for the first time in the book, which is full of intriguing details. For instance, the aspiring burglars cased the outside of the FBI office for about two months but eventually needed to get inside to see if there was an alarm system. So, Bonnie Raines made an appointment to talk about work opportunities at the FBI, and she wore gloves to the interview to avoid leaving fingerprints. Another burglar took a correspondence course to teach himself lock-picking skills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their efforts paid off. They cleaned out the office and were never caught, despite a five-year manhunt that involved more than 200 agents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They took every document in the place, and they even took a photo of J. Edgar Hoover,\" Rosenfeld said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They left the frame,\" Medsger noted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Hoover Was a Towering Figure \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Nixon administration asked the Post not to publish Medsger's story. The newspaper's publisher, Katharine Graham, ignored the request.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"At this point in our history, the FBI was used to getting 100 percent cooperation from the media,\" Rosenfeld said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the early '70s, Medsger didn't have to worry about competition over who would break the story first: Nelson and Wicker turned the documents over to the FBI.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Intelligence was different than anything else, and intelligence was something journalists had not touched at that time,\" Medsger said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The journalists' wariness reflected the times. In the 1950s and '60s, Rosenfeld said, Hoover was a revered folk hero who'd been a towering figure for almost half a century. He was more popular than President Harry Truman and had developed close relationships with all the major studios in Hollywood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sen. George McGovern, one of two public officials who had received the stolen files, condemned the burglary, saying it would make it impossible to investigate the FBI.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"To digress to now, maybe that's why Snowden didn't take documents to Congress,\" Rosenfeld said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Medsger noted that Daniel Ellsberg brought the \u003ca href=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/nation/specialreports/pentagon-papers/\" target=\"_blank\">Pentagon Papers,\u003c/a> tracing the history of the Vietnam War, to four different senators. When none were willing to make the documents public, he turned to journalists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It speaks to the very unique and crucial role of the press to get information out,\" said Rosenfeld, who was an investigative reporter at the Hearst-owned San Francisco Examiner and the San Francisco Chronicle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the spring of 1971, Medsger continued to receive stolen files. One set had a routing slip labeled \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTELPRO\" target=\"_blank\">COINTELPRO\u003c/a>, a series of covert operations designed to disrupt and discredit domestic political dissidents. The notorious program included Hoover's meanest and dirtiest tricks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She was stunned at how much the FBI put in writing in its documents, such as telling agents that they should enhance people's paranoia and make them think there was an FBI agent behind every mailbox.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"At this particular time, the FBI committed almost everything to paper in a very unguarded way, even though the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) had passed five years before,\" Rosenfeld said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Story Set the Stage for Many More Revelations\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a result of Medsger's work, some members of Congress and editorial boards around the country called for a probe of Hoover and the FBI.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Even though there was a strong reaction initially, things slowed down,\" Rosenfeld said. \"But a fuse had been lit by these stories.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three months after the burglary, the Pentagon Papers came out. The Watergate break-in and coverup happened the following year. In 1973, NBC News reporter Carl Stern filed the first Freedom of Information Act lawsuit in the U.S. and broke the first story about COINTELPRO, which he'd learned of after reading about the burglary. And the watershed Church Committee hearings in 1975 and 1976 were the first and most extensive investigations of FBI and CIA involvement in American lives. Many reforms followed. But in the years since 9/11, intelligence agencies have acquired much greater power to engage in domestic surveillance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Fast forward to where we are now with \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/tags/190293264/edward-snowden\" target=\"_blank\">Edward Snowden\u003c/a>,\" said Rosenfeld, who asked Medsger about similarities and differences between then and now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said the Media burglars and Snowden had the same motivation: to provide information to members of the public, who could then make decisions about whether they wanted intelligence agencies to behave in this way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The crucial difference is that Snowden knew exactly what he was doing and that there was valuable information,\" Medsger said. \"The FBI burglars were risking their futures without having any idea.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It seems we know an awful lot about what the NSA collected but almost nothing about how that information was used,\" Rosenfeld said. \"And Congress so far has not shown much interest in asking those questions.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before the event began, Medsger told me, \"It seems as though I've been talking continuously ever since I arrived.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No wonder. She read at \u003ca href=\"http://www.bookpassage.com\" target=\"_blank\">Book Passage\u003c/a> in San Francisco's Ferry Building on Tuesday night, addressed a class of Knight Fellows at Stanford on Wednesday hours before the City Club talk, and went to a party Thursday evening in San Francisco that included a book discussion. She flew back later that night to New York, where she lives, so that she could attend the screening of \"1971,\" a parallel documentary on the burglary, at the Tribeca Film Festival Friday night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the City Club event was wrapping up, Medsger mentioned that she was very happy about something that had happened in New York the day before. The city's mayor and police commissioner had disbanded a controversial special spy unit of the NYPD, shaped with the help of the CIA, that had been in place since 9/11.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Medsger could not help but point out that The Associated Press won a Pulitzer in 2012 for its series on the unit's intelligence operations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_133184\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/BM-book.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-133184\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/BM-book-640x480.jpg\" alt=\"This book by Betty Medsger examines a 1971 burglary of the FBI office in Media, Pa. (Patricia Yollin/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">This book by Betty Medsger examines the 1971 burglary of the FBI office in Media, Pa. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_133183\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/betty-and-seth.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-133183\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/betty-and-seth-640x480.jpg\" alt=\"Seth Rosenfeld and Betty Medsger in conversaton at the San Francisco City Club. (Patricia Yollin/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Seth Rosenfeld and Betty Medsger in conversation at the San Francisco City Club. (Patricia Yollin/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On March 8, 1971, Richard Nixon was in the White House, the United States was in Vietnam and J. Edgar Hoover was director of the FBI.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Joe Frazier and Muhammad Ali were in New York's Madison Square Garden, fighting for boxing's heavyweight title — an event that eight Pennsylvania residents hoped would deflect attention from their plans for the evening: burglarizing the FBI office in Media, a Philadelphia suburb with the highest concentration of Republicans in the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The burglars were motivated by persistent rumors that the peace and civil rights movements had been infiltrated by spies, said \u003ca href=\"http://www.theburglary.com/biography\" target=\"_blank\">Betty Medsger,\u003c/a> former chair of the journalism department at San Francisco State University. \"But there was no evidence,\" she said. \"So this was a way to determine whether or not it was true.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1971 Medsger was a reporter for the Washington Post, and the burglars were mostly academics and graduate students opposed to the war in Vietnam. They anonymously sent her and four other people copies of the documents they had found, which revealed the FBI's extraordinary efforts to suppress dissent, including its blanket surveillance of black people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Medsger's story about the burglary, which ran in the Post and many other papers around the country, generated outrage and a national discussion about the role of intelligence agencies in a democratic society. Her 608-page book about the heist — and how and why it occurred — came out in January: \"The Burglary: The Discovery of J. Edgar Hoover's Secret FBI.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She was interviewed recently at the San Francisco City Club by freelance journalist \u003ca href=\"http://www.sethrosenfeld.com\" target=\"_blank\">Seth Rosenfeld\u003c/a>, who wrote \"Subversives: The FBI's War on Student Radicals, and Reagan's Rise to Power,\" published in 2012.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was a conversation that could have gone on for weeks. Medsger and Rosenfeld know way more about the FBI than most people on the planet — and probably vice versa. The FBI spent about $1 million to prevent Rosenfeld from getting files he'd requested on Hoover and Ronald Reagan. Medsger, meanwhile, obtained the 34,000-page FBI investigation of the Media burglary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Seth and I should probably have our heads examined,\" Medsger said. \"Both of us have read thousands of pages of FBI documents.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Billed as \"Celebrating Dissent,\" the City Club event was sponsored by S.F. State's \u003ca href=\"http://journalism.sfsu.edu/pages/center-integration-and-improvement-journalism\" target=\"_blank\">Center for Integration and Improvement of Journalism\u003c/a>, which Medsger founded in 1990. Although the journalists' conversation went back 43 years, it could not have been timelier, given Edward Snowden's revelations on National Security Agency surveillance — a subject that led to Pulitzer Prizes for the Washington Post and The Guardian just two days before the City Club event.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'They took every document in the place, and they even took a photo of J. Edgar Hoover.'\u003ccite>Seth Rosenfeld\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Medsger told the crowd she was not nearly as well known as the other two journalists who received the stolen documents — Tom Wicker of the New York Times and Jack Nelson of the Los Angeles Times. She figured her coverage of the peace movement in the late '60s had played a role, and it turned out she was right: Many years later, she found out that two of her activist acquaintances in Philadelphia were among the burglars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eventually, she learned the identities of seven of the eight, and told their stories for the first time in the book, which is full of intriguing details. For instance, the aspiring burglars cased the outside of the FBI office for about two months but eventually needed to get inside to see if there was an alarm system. So, Bonnie Raines made an appointment to talk about work opportunities at the FBI, and she wore gloves to the interview to avoid leaving fingerprints. Another burglar took a correspondence course to teach himself lock-picking skills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their efforts paid off. They cleaned out the office and were never caught, despite a five-year manhunt that involved more than 200 agents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They took every document in the place, and they even took a photo of J. Edgar Hoover,\" Rosenfeld said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They left the frame,\" Medsger noted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Hoover Was a Towering Figure \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Nixon administration asked the Post not to publish Medsger's story. The newspaper's publisher, Katharine Graham, ignored the request.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"At this point in our history, the FBI was used to getting 100 percent cooperation from the media,\" Rosenfeld said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the early '70s, Medsger didn't have to worry about competition over who would break the story first: Nelson and Wicker turned the documents over to the FBI.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Intelligence was different than anything else, and intelligence was something journalists had not touched at that time,\" Medsger said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The journalists' wariness reflected the times. In the 1950s and '60s, Rosenfeld said, Hoover was a revered folk hero who'd been a towering figure for almost half a century. He was more popular than President Harry Truman and had developed close relationships with all the major studios in Hollywood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sen. George McGovern, one of two public officials who had received the stolen files, condemned the burglary, saying it would make it impossible to investigate the FBI.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"To digress to now, maybe that's why Snowden didn't take documents to Congress,\" Rosenfeld said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Medsger noted that Daniel Ellsberg brought the \u003ca href=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/nation/specialreports/pentagon-papers/\" target=\"_blank\">Pentagon Papers,\u003c/a> tracing the history of the Vietnam War, to four different senators. When none were willing to make the documents public, he turned to journalists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It speaks to the very unique and crucial role of the press to get information out,\" said Rosenfeld, who was an investigative reporter at the Hearst-owned San Francisco Examiner and the San Francisco Chronicle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the spring of 1971, Medsger continued to receive stolen files. One set had a routing slip labeled \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTELPRO\" target=\"_blank\">COINTELPRO\u003c/a>, a series of covert operations designed to disrupt and discredit domestic political dissidents. The notorious program included Hoover's meanest and dirtiest tricks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She was stunned at how much the FBI put in writing in its documents, such as telling agents that they should enhance people's paranoia and make them think there was an FBI agent behind every mailbox.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"At this particular time, the FBI committed almost everything to paper in a very unguarded way, even though the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) had passed five years before,\" Rosenfeld said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Story Set the Stage for Many More Revelations\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a result of Medsger's work, some members of Congress and editorial boards around the country called for a probe of Hoover and the FBI.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Even though there was a strong reaction initially, things slowed down,\" Rosenfeld said. \"But a fuse had been lit by these stories.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three months after the burglary, the Pentagon Papers came out. The Watergate break-in and coverup happened the following year. In 1973, NBC News reporter Carl Stern filed the first Freedom of Information Act lawsuit in the U.S. and broke the first story about COINTELPRO, which he'd learned of after reading about the burglary. And the watershed Church Committee hearings in 1975 and 1976 were the first and most extensive investigations of FBI and CIA involvement in American lives. Many reforms followed. But in the years since 9/11, intelligence agencies have acquired much greater power to engage in domestic surveillance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Fast forward to where we are now with \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/tags/190293264/edward-snowden\" target=\"_blank\">Edward Snowden\u003c/a>,\" said Rosenfeld, who asked Medsger about similarities and differences between then and now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said the Media burglars and Snowden had the same motivation: to provide information to members of the public, who could then make decisions about whether they wanted intelligence agencies to behave in this way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The crucial difference is that Snowden knew exactly what he was doing and that there was valuable information,\" Medsger said. \"The FBI burglars were risking their futures without having any idea.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It seems we know an awful lot about what the NSA collected but almost nothing about how that information was used,\" Rosenfeld said. \"And Congress so far has not shown much interest in asking those questions.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before the event began, Medsger told me, \"It seems as though I've been talking continuously ever since I arrived.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No wonder. She read at \u003ca href=\"http://www.bookpassage.com\" target=\"_blank\">Book Passage\u003c/a> in San Francisco's Ferry Building on Tuesday night, addressed a class of Knight Fellows at Stanford on Wednesday hours before the City Club talk, and went to a party Thursday evening in San Francisco that included a book discussion. She flew back later that night to New York, where she lives, so that she could attend the screening of \"1971,\" a parallel documentary on the burglary, at the Tribeca Film Festival Friday night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the City Club event was wrapping up, Medsger mentioned that she was very happy about something that had happened in New York the day before. The city's mayor and police commissioner had disbanded a controversial special spy unit of the NYPD, shaped with the help of the CIA, that had been in place since 9/11.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By G.W. Schulz and Amanda Pike, The Center for Investigative Reporting\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_132174\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/RossMcNutt2.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-132174\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/RossMcNutt2-640x359.jpg\" alt=\"Ross McNutt views video footage of Compton. (Center for Investigative Reporting)\" width=\"640\" height=\"359\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ross McNutt views video footage of Compton. (Center for Investigative Reporting)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">W\u003c/span>hen sheriff’s deputies in Compton noticed an increase in necklace snatchings from women walking through town, they turned to an unlikely source to help solve the crimes: a retired Air Force veteran named Ross McNutt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McNutt and his Ohio-based company, \u003ca href=\"http://www.persistentsurveillance.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Persistent Surveillance Systems\u003c/a>, persuaded the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department to use his surveillance technology to monitor Compton’s streets from the air and track suspects from the moment the snatching occurred.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The system, known as wide-area surveillance, is something of a time machine – the entire city is filmed and recorded in real time. Imagine Google Earth with a rewind button and the ability to play back the movement of cars and people as they scurry about the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We literally watched all of Compton during the time that we were flying, so we could zoom in anywhere within the city of Compton and follow cars and see people,” McNutt said. “Our goal was to basically jump to where reported crimes occurred and see what information we could generate that would help investigators solve the crimes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"e935a7f5a36a58f7efac3ca96fbdfd15\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McNutt, who holds a doctorate in rapid product development, helped build wide-area surveillance to \u003ca href=\"http://www.armytimes.com/article/20120416/NEWS/204160317/System-gives-troops-360-degree-eye-sky\" target=\"_blank\">hunt down bombing suspects\u003c/a> in Iraq and Afghanistan. He decided that clusters of high-powered surveillance cameras attached to the belly of small civilian aircraft could be a game-changer in U.S. law enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our whole system costs less than the price of a single police helicopter and costs less for an hour to operate than a police helicopter,” McNutt said. “But at the same time, it watches 10,000 times the area that a police helicopter could watch.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McNutt’s airborne cameras are just one part of a new digital movement in law enforcement. The Hollywood version of American policing is made up of darkened command centers where a wellspring of digital data about criminals always seems just a few clicks away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In cities across the country, that fiction is inching closer to reality.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Emerging Technologies Could Revolutionize Policing\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The FBI is rolling out a sprawling data complex that contains over 147 million mug shots and sets of fingerprints, many of which belong to people who are not criminals. Local law enforcement analysts are using surveillance centers to monitor video feeds and reported crimes minute by minute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Center for Investigative Reporting and KQED teamed up to take an inside look at the emerging technologies that could revolutionize policing – and how intrusively the public is monitored by the government. The technology is forcing the public and law enforcement to answer a central question: When have police crossed the line from safer streets to expansive surveillance that threatens to undermine the nation’s constitutional values?\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'We’re able to catch bad guys faster, and we’re able to get them off the streets a lot faster with the technologies we have.'\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>In one city, law enforcement officials don’t need to see your identification: They just need your face. Police officers in Chula Vista, near San Diego, \u003ca href=\"http://cironline.org/reports/facial-recognition-once-battlefield-tool-lands-san-diego-county-5502\">already have used mobile facial recognition technology\u003c/a> to confirm the identities of people they suspect of crimes. After using a tablet to capture the person’s image, an answer is delivered in eight seconds. (About 1 percent of the time, the system retrieves the wrong name, according to the manufacturer, FaceFirst.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chula Vista is now part of a larger trend in law enforcement to use unique biological markers like faces, palm prints, skin abnormalities and the iris of eyes to identify people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You can lie about your name, you can lie about your date of birth, you can lie about your address,” said Officer Rob Halverson. “But tattoos, birthmarks, scars don’t lie.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The FBI, meanwhile, is finalizing plans this year to make 130 million fingerprints digital and searchable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of the fingerprints belong to people who have not been not arrested but simply submitted their prints for background checks while seeking jobs. Civil libertarians worry that facial images for these individuals could be next. The FBI already maintains a collection of some 17 million mug shots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This personal information is now housed in a West Virginia-based storage facility the size of two football fields containing row after row of blinking and buzzing server stacks. 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Audits have been conducted to ensure Next Generation Identification isn’t accessed by local police for conducting inappropriate searches, Wiltz added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Potential for Misuse Troubles Civil Libertarians\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jennifer Lynch, a senior staff attorney at the \u003ca href=\"https://www.eff.org/\">Electronic Frontier Foundation\u003c/a>, said she’s concerned the government will eventually collect and store face images like it does now with the tens of millions of fingerprints submitted by people seeking certain jobs. She’s worried such data will be merged with criminal records that are currently kept separate – resulting in innocent people being placed under suspicion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Once the nation has a facial recognition database, and once facial recognition capabilities improve to the point that we can identify faces in a crowd, it will become possible for authorities to identify people as they move through society,” Lynch said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for wide-area surveillance, McNutt said that ground-based cameras offer higher resolutions and that his technology cannot zoom in on faces or other particular details. But cameras on the ground are limited in range, and a seemingly infinite number would be necessary to blanket an entire city. McNutt believes his technology will be good enough in a few years to cover twice as much area – perhaps as large as the entire city of San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_132182\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 338px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/Screen-Shot-2014-04-09-at-5.22.31-PM.png\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-132182 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/Screen-Shot-2014-04-09-at-5.22.31-PM-640x358.png\" alt=\"Sgt. Doug Iketani of the L.A. County Sheriff's Department. (Center for Investigative Reporting)\" width=\"338\" height=\"189\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sgt. Doug Iketani of the L.A. County Sheriff's Department. (Center for Investigative Reporting)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the case of a Compton necklace-snatching, the suspects eventually drove out of camera range without being identified, said L.A. County sheriff’s Sgt. Doug Iketani, who supervised the project. He added that McNutt’s system can’t provide the kind of detailed, close-up images that would survive in court. But Iketani said the technology did give police useful leads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So why have the people of Compton heard little about this experiment until now?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The system was kind of kept confidential from everybody in the public,” Iketani said. “A lot of people do have a problem with the eye in the sky, the Big Brother, so in order to mitigate any of those kinds of complaints, we basically kept it pretty hush-hush.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Elsewhere in the Los Angeles area, police are facing similar challenges at a command center near downtown where law enforcement analysts observe a video surveillance feed aimed at the iconic Hollywood sign, which police say is sometimes targeted by vandals and is vulnerable to fires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Policing the Hollywood sign is one of many tasks of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.lapdonline.org/september_2009/news_view/42863\" target=\"_blank\">Los Angeles Police Department’s Real-Time Analysis and Critical Response Division\u003c/a> – looking not unlike other high-tech law enforcement centers that have sprung up around the country as part of a post-9/11 trend known as predictive or intelligence-led policing. The goal: speed up reaction times or, better yet, intercede before new crimes, including potential precursors to terrorism, occur.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The center has access to 1,000 surveillance cameras spread across the city. Also available, through a feed to the center, are social media sites, news broadcasts and data captured by license-plate recognition devices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s also a wall-mounted digital map of real-time reported crimes around Los Angeles that could provide analysts with valuable insight into when and where crimes are most likely to occur, where trends are emerging and where officers should be patrolling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like many cities around the country, Los Angeles is grappling with unease from residents over thousands of networked cameras that can peer into many corners of our lives, often without us being fully aware of it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The center’s commanding officer, Capt. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By G.W. Schulz and Amanda Pike, The Center for Investigative Reporting\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_132174\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/RossMcNutt2.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-132174\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/RossMcNutt2-640x359.jpg\" alt=\"Ross McNutt views video footage of Compton. (Center for Investigative Reporting)\" width=\"640\" height=\"359\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ross McNutt views video footage of Compton. (Center for Investigative Reporting)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">W\u003c/span>hen sheriff’s deputies in Compton noticed an increase in necklace snatchings from women walking through town, they turned to an unlikely source to help solve the crimes: a retired Air Force veteran named Ross McNutt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McNutt and his Ohio-based company, \u003ca href=\"http://www.persistentsurveillance.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Persistent Surveillance Systems\u003c/a>, persuaded the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department to use his surveillance technology to monitor Compton’s streets from the air and track suspects from the moment the snatching occurred.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The system, known as wide-area surveillance, is something of a time machine – the entire city is filmed and recorded in real time. Imagine Google Earth with a rewind button and the ability to play back the movement of cars and people as they scurry about the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We literally watched all of Compton during the time that we were flying, so we could zoom in anywhere within the city of Compton and follow cars and see people,” McNutt said. “Our goal was to basically jump to where reported crimes occurred and see what information we could generate that would help investigators solve the crimes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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The Hollywood version of American policing is made up of darkened command centers where a wellspring of digital data about criminals always seems just a few clicks away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In cities across the country, that fiction is inching closer to reality.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Emerging Technologies Could Revolutionize Policing\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The FBI is rolling out a sprawling data complex that contains over 147 million mug shots and sets of fingerprints, many of which belong to people who are not criminals. Local law enforcement analysts are using surveillance centers to monitor video feeds and reported crimes minute by minute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Center for Investigative Reporting and KQED teamed up to take an inside look at the emerging technologies that could revolutionize policing – and how intrusively the public is monitored by the government. The technology is forcing the public and law enforcement to answer a central question: When have police crossed the line from safer streets to expansive surveillance that threatens to undermine the nation’s constitutional values?\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'We’re able to catch bad guys faster, and we’re able to get them off the streets a lot faster with the technologies we have.'\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>In one city, law enforcement officials don’t need to see your identification: They just need your face. Police officers in Chula Vista, near San Diego, \u003ca href=\"http://cironline.org/reports/facial-recognition-once-battlefield-tool-lands-san-diego-county-5502\">already have used mobile facial recognition technology\u003c/a> to confirm the identities of people they suspect of crimes. After using a tablet to capture the person’s image, an answer is delivered in eight seconds. (About 1 percent of the time, the system retrieves the wrong name, according to the manufacturer, FaceFirst.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chula Vista is now part of a larger trend in law enforcement to use unique biological markers like faces, palm prints, skin abnormalities and the iris of eyes to identify people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You can lie about your name, you can lie about your date of birth, you can lie about your address,” said Officer Rob Halverson. “But tattoos, birthmarks, scars don’t lie.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The FBI, meanwhile, is finalizing plans this year to make 130 million fingerprints digital and searchable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of the fingerprints belong to people who have not been not arrested but simply submitted their prints for background checks while seeking jobs. Civil libertarians worry that facial images for these individuals could be next. The FBI already maintains a collection of some 17 million mug shots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This personal information is now housed in a West Virginia-based storage facility the size of two football fields containing row after row of blinking and buzzing server stacks. These machines are the heart of the FBI’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/fingerprints_biometrics/ngi\">Next Generation Identification\u003c/a> program, which seeks to make it easier for police officers and investigators around the nation to distinguish one human being from another based on biological traits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What it potentially means is that we’re able to catch bad guys faster, and we’re able to get them off the streets a lot faster with the technologies we have so they don’t commit another crime,” said Jeremy Wiltz, acting assistant director of the FBI’s Criminal Justice Information Services Division.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Such technology, he said, also could exonerate innocent people and keep them from being held in a jail cell for days or longer. Audits have been conducted to ensure Next Generation Identification isn’t accessed by local police for conducting inappropriate searches, Wiltz added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Potential for Misuse Troubles Civil Libertarians\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jennifer Lynch, a senior staff attorney at the \u003ca href=\"https://www.eff.org/\">Electronic Frontier Foundation\u003c/a>, said she’s concerned the government will eventually collect and store face images like it does now with the tens of millions of fingerprints submitted by people seeking certain jobs. She’s worried such data will be merged with criminal records that are currently kept separate – resulting in innocent people being placed under suspicion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Once the nation has a facial recognition database, and once facial recognition capabilities improve to the point that we can identify faces in a crowd, it will become possible for authorities to identify people as they move through society,” Lynch said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for wide-area surveillance, McNutt said that ground-based cameras offer higher resolutions and that his technology cannot zoom in on faces or other particular details. But cameras on the ground are limited in range, and a seemingly infinite number would be necessary to blanket an entire city. McNutt believes his technology will be good enough in a few years to cover twice as much area – perhaps as large as the entire city of San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_132182\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 338px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/Screen-Shot-2014-04-09-at-5.22.31-PM.png\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-132182 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/Screen-Shot-2014-04-09-at-5.22.31-PM-640x358.png\" alt=\"Sgt. Doug Iketani of the L.A. County Sheriff's Department. (Center for Investigative Reporting)\" width=\"338\" height=\"189\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sgt. Doug Iketani of the L.A. County Sheriff's Department. (Center for Investigative Reporting)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the case of a Compton necklace-snatching, the suspects eventually drove out of camera range without being identified, said L.A. 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