Philly Police Admit They Disguised a Spy Truck as a Google Streetview Car
From the - You can't make this Stuff Up Department -
quote:The Philadelphia Police Department admitted today that a mysterious unmarked license plate surveillance truck disguised as a Google Maps vehicle, which Motherboard first reported is - it's own.
In British Columbia, Victoria police were caught creating a database from all the license plates the machine saw, and that's illegal. It is basically considered to be a pre-crime data collection. Can be easily abused by the act of 'parallel construction', which is trailing a target to be able to find that one spot you can bust them for something.
Big ass PDF on surveillance in modern times and how those in power abuse it, even when caught again and again. »bccla.org/wp-content/upl ··· ials.pdf
West Vancouver was/is considering using license plate recognition for targeting parking offenders. Problem is, they create a database of plates daily and ooops, forgot to delete it every 4 hours. »www.news1130.com/2012/08 ··· est-van/
You've also got distracted drivers very observant police looking at a monitor while driving, in order to see that flashing screen telling them a license plate needs investigating. That's between looking at the radar gun readouts and talking on the cellphone, having a drink and flipping on the emergency lights to run that nuisance traffic light that screws up the patrol. The police in the ever-expanding unmarked vehicle fleet must get the occasional report from command of a dangerous driver that mysteriously looks like their vehicle. -- Children should be taught how to think, not what to think Knowledge and curiosity are not crimes and those who are curious should not be treated like criminals. »www.eff.org/https-everywhere
On vacation I had a 'door repair' van show up at my home - triggered my surveillance camera proximity alert. I called the cops (from 3,000 miles away), they showed up in 2-3 minutes and found 2 guys trying to mess with my side door. I checked with the cops and they said the guys said they were at the 'wrong house'... Cop told me the plate ran as a govt. plate when I talked to him after I got back.
Too bad I have $700.00 in Bi-Lock deadbolts on my home. They won't get through those, or get keys made for them. But pretty funny nonetheless.
maybe .....just maybe if they turn philly highway loose......instead of doin' the i spy stuff....women won't get the shxx beat out of them...while folks stand around laughin' and filmin' on their........ »www.fox29.com/news/14039 ··· 31-story
maybe .....just maybe if they turn philly highway loose......instead of doin' the i spy stuff....women won't get the shxx beat out of them...while folks stand around laughin' and filmin' on their........ »www.fox29.com/news/14039 ··· 31-story
Was stationed in Philly from August '72-March '75 before being ordered out on a PCS. Best assignment I ever had in all my active duty years, but it was some kind of town back then. Frank Rizzo was the mayor at the time and also was the former police commissioner. They called the guy "Big Frank" and he was legendary. -- The maximum effective range of an excuse is ZERO meters!
Too bad I have $700.00 in Bi-Lock deadbolts on my home. They won't get through those
Window-less home?
Bars on the windows? Electric chainsaw through the back-wall siding and framing (quieter than gasoline engine)... and for added insult, they'll use your patio electric outlet for power. As towerdave said: "Depends on how bad they want to get in." -- The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money. -- A. de Tocqueville
... it was some kind of town back then. Frank Rizzo was the mayor at the time and also was the former police commissioner. They called the guy "Big Frank" and he was legendary.
Ah yes! "Bombin' " Frank. With some co-workers on a business trip, I happened to take a wrong exit and got lost in Philly while driving from the airport on the Interstate about 11pm and ended up in the same neigborhood where Rizzo's crew had dropped the bomb on the house about 2 weeks before. Lots of clusters of angry-looking folks milling around in the streets giving us some extremely unfriendly looks (we were all dressed in dark suits/ties)... we beat a record-fast hasty retreat. -- The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money. -- A. de Tocqueville
Philadelphia International Airport was in West Philly and that neighborhood as well as North Philly tended to be rough sledding during the period I lived there, particularly at night. I enjoyed Philly but it was a racially polarized town during my tour of duty and don't know if things have improved in that regard or not even 40 plus years later. I actually got BEQ and separate rations to live off-base in a dinky little efficiency apartment but the rat hole was the Taj Mahal to this young guy compared to the barracks located on the Philadelphia Naval Base. PNB, the Philadelphia Naval Hospital and the Defense Personnel Support Center (DPSC) were all located very close to each other within a radius of a mere few miles in South Philadelphia. South Philly had a heavily ethnic population of various folks, particularly those of Irish/Italian/Russian/Polish heritage and descent. Talk about a melting pot! The biggest detail all year was acting as security for all the VIP's who took the train from Washington, D. C. to attend the yearly Army-Navy game played in the old JFK stadium across the street from the spanking new Veterans Stadium where the Phillies and Eagles played and the older Spectrum facility where the Flyers and 76'ers played. All those sports venues were almost within spitting distance of the military bases so we had some decent options for R&R after normal duty hours. Then there were the bars in the area which I could tell you stories about, but will defer lest I embarrassingly incriminate myself in the process. My favorite watering hole was called Mulligan's Bar and was the epitome of what is commonly referred to as a "dive". Shots and beers was about it as far as the menu went. Even decades later, the incredible memories (both good and bad) from my TOD there still remain. -- The maximum effective range of an excuse is ZERO meters!
OT but if MS doesn't pull its Hotel out of its Alpha rickety-tick and start addressing the myriad quality control issues consumers are rightfully screaming about, there's gonna be bookoo Window-less homes very, very soon.
(Sorry....couldn't resist the opportunity for yet another dig at those asleep at the wheel in Redmond!) -- The maximum effective range of an excuse is ZERO meters!
Too bad I have $700.00 in Bi-Lock deadbolts on my home. They won't get through those
Window-less home?
Even better. But the key is you want to create a situation where forced entry with excessive force is required. I have refinforced striker plates with 8 3" screws into the frame so no kicking it in. I have ballistic film on my windows, great stuff from 3M but also third party manufacturers of it now. You can't even see that it is on the window and is pretty cheap these days. My home looks like any other home in this upper-middle class neighborhood but is highly reinforced/protected - Layer 1 through Layer 7.
Interesting. I had not heard of this. I have heard of chemical warfare use in US cities, that's been confirmed. Also Chemtrails, given the extensive, country wide spraying of Vietnam it's not so hard to believe. However, I recently was told about a new book based on Snowden Leaks and other data gathered from leakers; The Assassination Complex: Inside the Government's Secret Drone Warfare Program
Apparently the govt. has been discussing(and possibly testing?) how to simulate natural gas explosions destroying homes via drone ordinance. Also that there are plans for solar powered autonomous drones over cities and possibly arming drones.
You must live in a really really shitty area to need that much. I mean security is great but you are setup like you live in Camden it sounds like. -- Filan - Aurin Spellslinger - Pago - Team Legacy
where Rizzo's crew had dropped the bomb on the house
the Move bombing? That wasn't Rizzo, that was Sambor.
Was pretty sure I'd saved a fairly recent photo of a painted mural depicting Frank Rizzo that I'd run across on the Internet a few years ago and here it is. This was taken on Montrose Street, although not sure exactly where on Montrose other than the location is definitely north of where my dingy apartment was on Snyder Avenue back in the early 1970's.
(Edited to add that I enlarged the picture and noticed some sort of historical marker indicating the pic was snapped at the Italian Market, wherever this is located. Certainly wasn't something I particularly recall when living there but perhaps someone can shed light on the exact location the photograph was taken.) -- The maximum effective range of an excuse is ZERO meters!
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