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Stephen Russell is a serial entrepreneur, investor, writer, and all-around-believer in the power of technology to reshape the world. InHardFocus.com contains his musings on topics including surveillance, privacy, security technology and more.

Recent Posts Tagged With 'Police'

• Newark Uses Cameras to Deter Crime

  Posted on Tuesday July 8th, 2008 at 13:20 in crime, law enforcement, Police, Surveillance

  Amidst reports of cameras not doing anything at all to deter crime, Newark opened its new Surveillance Operations Center last week, and released a report claiming that murders and rapes had declined s...

• Video Evidence Doesn't Discriminate

  Posted on Tuesday July 8th, 2008 at 11:56 in evidence, law enforcement, Police, video surveillance

  Here's one for people who worry that surveillance video puts too much power in the hands of police. In this case, video helped a defendant (Guillermo Alarcon, Jr., pictured left) prove that police had...

• No Place to Hide for Camera-shy Criminals

  Posted on Monday January 21st, 2008 at 15:15 in cctv, crime, Police, Surveillance

  http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=15&art_id=vn20080121035546155C224410CCTV cameras, commissioned by the Tshwane Metro Council three years ago, have helped to reduce crime and tr...

• LA to Profile Muslim Communities

  Posted on Thursday November 15th, 2007 at 11:04 in extremism, muslims, Police

  The Los Angeles police have begun a difficult and controversial program to identify and reach out to some of the area’s more insular Muslim communities.There are an estimated 500,000 Muslims in Los ...