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NYC Plans To Track All Vehicles In Manhattan

Radiation Censors, Surveillance Cameras Used To Screen & Follow Every Vehicle Entering Lower Manhattan

NEW YORK (CBS) ? The New York Police Department is working on a plan to track every single vehicle that enters Manhattan.

The initiative, called “Operation Sentinel,” is aimed at preventing terror attacks. With the use of cameras and radiation censors, police plan to track anything and everything that enters the Big Apple, reported CBS station WCBS-TV in New York.

The NYPD wants to photograph the license plates of every vehicle coming into Manhattan and keep the image and information in a database.

The proposal is part of a multimillion dollar plan to secure lower Manhattan. It includes cameras, license plate readers and radiation detectors.

They would be set up at 7 vehicle crossings that function as major arteries into Manhattan. </em>

Two things come to mind about this. First, TTP has some knowledge of government IT operations. Hence, this shit will never work.

Secondly, does this wholesale dismissal of NYC citizens constitutional rights come with a guarantee? Meaning, when some whackadoo on a Vespa blows up our esteemed New York contributor E. Chavez Bush, Esq, can we sue NYPD for dereliction of duty?

Of course not. Because nobody with any sense expects any of this to work. It’s the same as giving a Wintergreen Life Saver to a cancer patient. Just because something is called something, doesn’t mean it actually is. This isn’t “security”- just like it ain’t a War on Drugs. Or terror.

Baa louder, sheep. They can pick you up better on the “security” cameras that way.


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