Police can control nearly 7,000 surveillance cameras across Philly from a smartphone app

A police surveillance video shows the detail and clarity with which the department is able to record people in public using a network of cloud connected cameras.
An Inquirer report on how Philly narcotics cops used these cameras found that not only did officers on a squad of the Narcotics Strike Force not disclose their use of video surveillance to prosecutors, but some video recordings directly contradicted what officers claimed to have seen.
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[@dualsportdiary1150]

Police have access to over 7,000 cameras and the place is a disaster. Obviously it doesn't help.

[@bleu999]

Is this a police state ?

[@Bryce_Hall]

Rhetorical question

[@artforartsake888]

And now we are China

[@daviddruggish271]

What a waste of tax payer money. Making law enforcement lazy thats all this doing. Ignorance is bliss.

[@driftpin9181]

cameras in public are only an issue if you are doing something you shouldn't be doing...

[@Bryce_Hall]

That is absolutely false

[@dianneyung111]

There is no right to privacy when you are out on the streets. I don't have a issue with this.

[@kellyroyds5040]

So how far are you willing to let them go?

[@NillWill]

No expectation of privacy, not no “right”

[@kellyroyds5040]

All those cameras and they still can't catch the shooters.