Baltimore PD: secret aerial surveilance exposed

[CosmicCowboy]

good stuff.

SMH

[Wild Cobra]

good stuff.

God...

I would love to have a thermal camera. We use them at work, along with ultrasound probes.

Some people make great money with both!

[Winehole23]

Baltimore PD lied about "every aspect" of its spy plane

The Baltimore Police Department told the public and a federal appeals court that the surveillance images would only be stored for 45 days, that the planes would only be used for limited tracking of individuals to and from known crime scenes, and that the Aerial Investigation Research (AIR) program couldn’t be used to gather identifying information like license plate numbers.

The Baltimore Police Department was lying, according to an audit from independent evaluators hired by the city.

The ACLU and local activists are currently suing the BPD in an attempt to prevent the AIR program, which was a six-month pilot, from starting up again in Baltimore or anywhere else. In its court filings in that case, BPD made statements that “bear an insufficient resemblance to the reality of how AIR operates,” the auditors from New York University School of Law’s Policing Project wrote in an amicus brief to the court.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/qjpj...-plane-program

[Winehole23]

Baltimore PD's Gun Trace Task Force is getting rekt by ongoing trials for corruption and for other crimes.

https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/cr...k3q-story.html