Police Are Testing a “Live Google Earth” To Watch Crime As It Happens

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“This is all made to sound good but what if a dictator (a Hitler, Stalin type or Anti-Christ) gets his hands on this technology, what could he use it for? Spying on perceived enemies (Christians perhaps), political opponents, who knows. Just another sign of the last days. It would have been impossible for a world wide dictatorship like the Anti-Christ will create to have occurred before now because the technology necessary to implement it didn’t exist … but that’s rapidly changing.”  Admin

In Compton last year, police began quietly testing a system that allowed them to do something incredible: Watch every car and person in real time as they ebbed and flowed around the city. Every assault, every purse snatched, every car speeding away was on record—all thanks to an Ohio company that monitors cities from the air.

The Center for Investigative Reporting takes a look at a number of emerging surveillance technologies in a new video, but one in particular stands out: A wide-area surveillance system invented by Ross McNutt, a retired Air Force veteran who owns a company called Persistent Surveillance Systems.

McNutt describes his product as “a live version of Google Earth, only with TiVo capabilities,” which is intriguing but vague (and also sounds a lot like the plot of this terrible Denzel movie). More specifically, PSS outfits planes with an array of super high-resolution cameras that allow a pilot to record a 25-square-mile patch of Earth constantly—for up to six hours.

It’s sort of similar to what your average satellite can do—except, in this case, you can rewind the video, zoom in, and follow specific people and cars as they move around the grid. It’s not specific enough to ID people by face, but, when used in unison with stoplight cameras and other on-the-ground video sources, it can identify suspects as they leave the scene of a crime.

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