[Neighbors] Fwd: Security Cams on Lead/Coal

Tue Apr 18 16:15:38 MDT 2017

Bob, et. al.,
I've asked Councilor Davis' office to clarify what's currently happening with
these cameras. I'm just waiting for a response.
ANC
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On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 2:57 PM, Robert L Anderson via Neighbors_nobhill-nm 
neighbors_nobhill-nm at mailman.swcp.com  wrote:
Thanks Zach for that information on the security cams (the article is below for
folks)….  I recall it now a bit.
It appears to not be working at catching crime right underneath the camera like
at John Finger truck stolen and the cops who came out did not appear to know
about it and then the recording data was destroyed 24 hrs later.   That is
really good.They sure have done nothing to stop all the speeding on Lead and
Coal.So what is it about then I ask and how can citizens give some oversight to
its use?We also should be able to monitor the cameras in our area it would seem.
Bob
From: Zachary Benz <zbenz at me.com>
Some of the cameras are part of the Real Time Crime Center initiative - article
here:www.abqjournal.com/174040/apd-video-crime-center-debuts.html/amp (a bit
dated - it's from four years ago)Others simply monitor traffic flowNote the
article states the footage is destroyed every 24 hours - it's not meant as long
term evidence collection, but rather as a way to provide extra eyes for the
police.
APD VIDEO CRIME CENTER DEBUTS
BYJEFF PROCTOR / JOURNAL STAFF WRITER
PUBLISHED:SATURDAY, MARCH 2ND, 2013 AT 12:05AMUPDATED:SATURDAY, MARCH 2ND, 2013
AT 8:21AM
No, this isn’t a Las Vegas sports book. It’s the new APD “Real Time Crime
Center,” which officials unveiled Friday. Its aim is to provide real-time
information to first-responding officers in the field. (Roberto E.
Rosales/Albuquerque Journal)ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — For nearly two years, the
Albuquerque Police Department has quietly been at work on a controversial law
enforcement strategy in which live camera feeds are piped from more than 100
cameras around the city into a video command center at police headquarters to
provide officers in the field with real-time information.
On Friday, officials unveiled the “Real Time Crime Center,” a renovated wing on
the third floor of the main police station Downtown that features a bank of 16
television screens — with a 90-inch monitor at its center — and eight work
stations where a mix of sworn police officers on light duty and civilian APD
employees gather information from dozens of public and private databases.

That information — which could, for example, include whether someone is a
veteran suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder — is relayed to officers
as they make their way to a call for police service. And in the event that a
call is taking place in an area where one of the cameras is, staff in the new
crime center can manipulate the camera to watch what’s happening.

The department expects the new system will help fight crime, improve officer
safety and lead to fewer police shootings.

Albuquerque is following the lead of cities such as New York City; Memphis,
Tenn.; Houston and Chicago in adopting the new technology for law enforcement.
According to published reports, the results have been mixed in terms of reducing
crime. Privacy and civil liberties advocates have raised concerns about whether
the technology is overreaching.

Mayor Richard Berry, left, and Police Chief Ray Schultz officially opened the
APD “Real Time Crime Center” on Friday. “The RTCC is changing the way the
Albuquerque Police Department does business,” Berry said. (Roberto E.
Rosales/Albuquerque Journal)City staff did most of the work in setting up the
center, officials said, which cost about $800,000 in city bonds and federal
grants. T.J. Wilham, a former Journal reporter and city Public Safety spokesman,
is the center’s manager.

Police Chief Ray Schultz said at Friday’s unveiling that the new approach will
improve efficiency at APD by allowing officers to spend more time working on
proactive crime fighting. There’s also another reason for opening the center.

“Our primary mission in opening this center is to reduce the number of deadly
force encounters our officers are involved in and to help keep them and the
public safe by providing them all of the information they need,” he said.

APD officers have shot at 27 men since 2010, striking 24 and killing 17, one of
the factors that prompted the U.S. Justice Department to launch a top-to-bottom
civil rights investigation of APD in November.

Peter Simonson, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of New
Mexico, said he is concerned about the center’s capabilities.

“The department has created a system that has the potential to collect massive
amounts of data and establish patterns of activity that the police might take as
suspicious, but that are in fact activity that is perfectly law abiding,”
Simonson said Friday. “With APD, we have seen numerous examples of officers not
acting in the best interest of the public … The fact that APD has given itself
this capacity, given its recent history, raises red flags for me.”

But Simonson also praised two of Friday’s announcements: The city is working
with Sandia National Laboratories to study the effectiveness of the Real Time
Crime Center, and APD has pledged to destroy the surveillance camera video every
24 hours.

Each of the cameras, which have been in place to aid city traffic engineers for
years, records on a 24-hour loop, Schultz said, adding that their use does not
amount to “Big Brother.”

Wilham said: “There’s a big difference between monitoring and intelligence
gathering. This is video intelligence.”

APD also is recruiting businesses to take part in the video system.

The department now has access to cameras at six Blake’s Lotaburger locations.
Those cameras, however, aren’t streaming video around the clock. Police can only
tap into them when a store employee presses an alarm button.

On March 14, the department is hosting an event at Cottonwood Mall at 8:30 a.m.
to allow other private businesses to opt into the camera program.

Currently, APD has staff in the center eight hours a day, seven days a week,
Schultz said. His plan is to expand that to 18 hours a day by May.

Integrated data hub

In addition to providing information to first-responding officers, the new
center will serve as the hub for APD’s closed-circuit television system that
broadcasts information about people who have recently been released from jail,
those wanted on warrants, where various types of crime have occurred during the
past 24 hours and where department crime analysts expect criminals to strike in
the next 24 hours.

APD plans to include on digital maps in the center the locations of all people
wearing electronic ankle bracelets as part of the Metropolitan Detention
Center’s Community Custody Program.

Another controversial piece of law enforcement technology APD ultimately plans
to include in its new approach: facial recognition software that will allow
police to match images caught on cameras against “known criminals” in the
state’s Motor Vehicle Division database and other databases.

Simonson said that, used the wrong way, facial recognition could wander into the
territory of illegal searches.

“If police are trying to identify anyone who appears on a camera and identify
who is where and at what time, we would be greatly concerned,” he said. “At that
point, it begins to look like umbrella surveillance … If they are strictly using
it for the purposes of established criminal investigations, that diminishes the
potential for civil liberties and privacy infringement.”
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