Spy Plane: Inside Baltimore's Surveillance Experiment

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Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. The Problem of Experimentation -- 2. The All-Seeing Eye -- 3. False Positives -- 4. Experimenting on the Black Butterfly -- 5. Big Brother's Bigger Brother -- 6. Privacy and the Time Machin...

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Main Author: Snyder, Benjamin H. (Author)
Format: Electronic Book
Language:English
Published: Berkeley University of California Press 2024
In:Year: 2024
Edition:1st ed.
Online Access: Volltext (lizenzpflichtig)
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Keywords:
Electronic Surveillance > Social aspects > Maryland > Baltimore
Police Patrol > Surveillance operations
Law Enforcement > Technological innovations > Maryland > Baltimore
Parallel Edition:Non-electronic
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Summary:Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. The Problem of Experimentation -- 2. The All-Seeing Eye -- 3. False Positives -- 4. Experimenting on the Black Butterfly -- 5. Big Brother's Bigger Brother -- 6. Privacy and the Time Machine Problem -- 7. Mechanical Witness -- 8. No to Hype, Yes to Community Control -- Appendix: Watching the Watchers -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index.
"This book is an exclusive behind-the-scenes look at one of America's most controversial experiments in police surveillance. In 2020, the Baltimore Police Department had an aerial surveillance plane that could supposedly photograph and track every person in public view. Spy Plane reveals what happened with this controversial policing experiment. Drawing from incredible access and direct observations inside the for-profit tech startup that ran the program for Baltimore detectives, sociologist Benjamin H. Snyder recounts real criminal cases as they were worked by police using this untested tool. Deploying aircraft with powerful cameras built by a small company called Persistent Surveillance Systems, the spy plane program promised to help police "solve otherwise unsolvable crimes" by tracking the whereabouts of suspects in violent crime cases. Created for the battlefields of Iraq, it had never been adapted on so large a scale in a U.S. city. This riveting book gives an unprecedented look inside the shadowy world of for-profit law enforcement technology experiments, explaining why police and community leaders place so much faith in unproven technology to fix the problem of urban violence but continually come up short"-- Provided by publisher
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Physical Description:1 online resource (305 pages)
ISBN:978-0-520-39604-3