Areas of New York City with higher rates of “stop-and-frisk” police searches have more closed-circuit TV cameras, according to a new report from Amnesty International’s Decode Surveillance NYC proj...
The privacy predicament of NYC’s Traffic Cam Photobooth site A website allows you to take... by surveillance cameras, the site is designed to be as safe, privacy-respecting and secure as...
Faulty computer systems prevented surveillance cameras at two Brooklyn stations from getting pictures of the crazed gunman who shot up a subway train on Tuesday, MTA officials said. ; A server problem darkened the camera feeds at the 36th St. station on the N line, where alleged gunman Frank James ended his shooting spree, the officials said. ; The feeds were also out at the 25th St. station in the R line, where the cops said James fled by train after his attack. ; The problems prevented police and MTA officials from monitoring live pictures of the situation, and kept the system from recording any video of James as he moved about the stations, officials said.
The New York City Police Department (NYPD) has the ability to track people in Manhattan, Brooklyn and the Bronx by running images from 15,280 surveillance cameras into invasive and discriminatory f...
A convicted murderer’s second chance at life was cut short this week by a hitman in Hasidic garb who blasted him in the back of the head in a shocking Queens execution caught on surveillance video. Victim Jermaine Dixon — a former member of the “Patio Crew” in Brooklyn — had been out of federal prison for less than a year when the disguised gunman struck on Monday, killing the reformed gangster. Surveillance video from S. Conduit Ave. near 132nd St. in South Ozone Park captured what appears to be the planned hit around 8 a.m. ...
wide-area surveillance." New York City has an estimated 9,000 cameras linked to a system the New York Police Department calls the "Domain Awareness System." But there are more cameras that...
NYC's MTA has started using AI software to track fare evasion... The city's subway system is now using AI surveillance... AI-powered cameras have been used for years to detect everything...
Kathy Hochul’s office announced last year that the city’s transit systems had more than 10,000 surveillance cameras. Use of the software adds to what some privacy advocates see as a...
NYPD investigators were left scrambling to track down the madman behind the Brooklyn subway attack after surveillance cameras at both stations impacted by the incident malfunctioned, The Post has l...
For years now, New York City has tried to distance itself from its embattled and racist Stop and Frisk policing tactics that were responsible for creating over 100,000 interactions with police annually during the early 2000s. Though these physical stops have mostly tapered down, activists say it’s been replaced by a digital equivalent with equally as troubling racial biases: facial recognition. A new report and accompanying interactive map released this week by Amnesty International buttressed...