New Orleans Police New Surveillance Initiative
New Orleans is known for Mardi Gras, Bourbon Street and big band music, but it’s also known for being home to one of the most disastrous...
By Carlton Purvis - about 10 years ago
New Orleans is known for Mardi Gras, Bourbon Street and big band music, but it’s also known for being home to one of the most disastrous...
By Carlton Purvis - about 10 years ago
Can you train a surveillance operator to detect suspicious behavior without them even looking at a live camera. One company, VSTEP, thinks so....
By Carlton Purvis - about 10 years ago
Justin Bieber urinating in a jail cell recently became international news, evidently for its entertainment value, despite the boring video clip...
By IPVM Team - about 10 years ago
Juarez, known for being one of the deadliest cities in the world saw murder rates as high as 10 a day in 2010. More than 450 people were killed...
By Carlton Purvis - about 10 years ago
How many crimes take place in this photo? One company claims that their 192 MP camera array can identify and solve numerous crimes and murders,...
By Carlton Purvis - about 10 years ago
"When a robbery would happen police used to be able to show up, hit eject on the VCR, break the write protect tab on the tape and bag it. Now an...
By IPVM Team - about 10 years ago
Surveillance videos and images are regularly posted publicly. They're entertaining, shocking and even funny, but they also have a real impact in...
By IPVM Team - about 10 years ago
Google wants to leverage its massive load of video uploads to determine if crimes, terrorist events or disasters are unfolding. Recent patent...
By Carlton Purvis - over 10 years ago
Surveillance sales people dream about their products being required by law. Qatar's surveillance laws do that, and it would be a gold mine if the...
By Carlton Purvis - over 10 years ago
A man changed nationwide police policy by resisting intimidation from the local police after he uncovered they had set up illegal surveillance on...
By Carlton Purvis - over 10 years ago
Police are embracing social media to help solve crimes. Most departments have an email list of local media outlets they can send photos and video...
By Carlton Purvis - over 10 years ago
Busted for selling crack, a New York smoke shop owner used his surveillance system to prove he was set up by a police informant. Donald Andrews,...
By Carlton Purvis - over 10 years ago
David Spreadborough [link no longer available] has been a police officer in the UK for 23 years, a forensic video investigator for 10. In an...
By Carlton Purvis - over 10 years ago
Sick of red light and speed cameras? A lot of people are. There are entire websites and web forums devoted to the public’s disdain for automated...
By Carlton Purvis - over 10 years ago
A small town security integrator faces a felony charge after failing to turn over surveillance video to the authorities. The case is set to go to...
By Carlton Purvis - over 10 years ago
All is not always lost if surveillance footage from a crime is unavailable for the trial. If enough people have seen the video before it goes...
By IPVM Team - over 10 years ago
'Taylor' was born and raised in Chicago. A senior in high school, he lives in the same house he grew up in, is a varsity athlete and was just...
By Carlton Purvis - over 10 years ago
ADI has a terrible reputation. Box pushers, Order takers, etc. Indeed, a riot almost broke out when a member asked if they should let ADI design...
By John Honovich - over 10 years ago
This is bound to get messy. A former police officer and two current officers are suing a their police department after they found out internal...
By Carlton Purvis - over 10 years ago
A "hodgepodge of basic query services and secretarial work” containing “severe deficiencies, including understaffing” is the conclusion...
By Ben Wood - over 10 years ago
We visited Theodore Baran, the security director at Gallaudet University, a private school for deaf and hard of hearing students in the heart of...
By Carlton Purvis - over 10 years ago
Lots of ends users get duped by fancy PSIM presentations. But one big city is rejecting the hype, lead by a former systems integrator now in charge...
By Carlton Purvis - over 10 years ago
The most disastrous citywide surveillance system is likely from New Orleans. After spending more than $10 million, it resulted in criminal charges...
By Carlton Purvis - over 10 years ago
17-year-old Kendrick Johnson’s dead body was found rolled up in a gym mat at Lowndes County High School in Georgia. The family and investigators...
By Carlton Purvis - over 10 years ago
The common response to a shooter at a school or in a workplace is the "lockdown." Staff are instructed by security or exiting procedures to stay in...
By Carlton Purvis - over 10 years ago
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