Leo Hohmann – leohohmann.com Oct 27, 2024
Cities across the United States are installing hidden surviellance cameras that track everyone, everywhere, and nobody, not even Donald Trump, is talking about this. What are the Top 10 most surveilled cities in the U.S.? We’ve got the list!
My old colleagues at World Net Daily have an interesting story up today about the city of Norfolk, Virginia. City officials have transformed Norfolk into a virtual lock-down surveillance society with more than 172 high-resolution, internet-connected cameras monitorying practically all human movement.
Of course Norfolk is not terribly unique in this regard and we have a full report below, including a Top 10 list of most surveilled American cities.
Multitudes of cities of all sizes across the U.S. are jumping on the technocracy bandwagon and setting up hidden surveillance cameras on every corner. They’re on light poles, bridges and overpasses, stoplights, buildings, you name it. Some are equipped with speakers so they can also listen in on what’s being said.
They claim it’s for our “safety.”
What makes Norfolk unique is a group of citizens is fighting back. They’ve filed a lawsuit against the city, which is something that needs to happen in every city that implements this technology.
A lawsuit has been filed that accuses elected officials in Norfolk, Virginia, of using a network of 170 cameras to impose a warrantless surveillance scheme on residents and visitors.
The Institute for Justice has filed the suit on behalf of several plaintiffs, charging that the actions violate Fourth Amendment rights protecting U.S. citizens against unwarranted searches and seizures.
The system allows police “to monitor the comings and goings of all drivers in the city,” the legal team said.
Lee Schmidt, one of the plaintiffs, said, “I don’t like the government following my every movement and treating me like a criminal suspect, when they have no reason to believe I’ve done anything wrong.”
Another plaintiff, Crystal Arrington, stated, “My work requires me to drive around Norfolk very often, and it’s incredibly disturbing to know the city can track my every move during that time.”
The Institute for Justice explained that in 2023, Norfolk police partnered with a private company called Flock Safety Inc. to install 172 automatic license-plate reading cameras all across town.
The locations were chosen to provide a so-called “curtain of technology,” which would allow police to watch anyone drive anywhere without knowing they’re being watched.
The Institute noted:
“Unlike traditional traffic cameras, which capture an image only when they sense speeding or someone running a red light, Flock’s cameras capture images of every car driving by, which it retains for at least 30 days. Artificial intelligence then uses those images to create a ‘Vehicle Fingerprint’ that enables any Flock subscriber to both track where that vehicle has gone and identify what other vehicles it has been seen nearby.”
Institute for Justice lawyer Michael Soyfer stated:
“Norfolk has created a dragnet that allows the government to monitor everyone’s day-to-day movements without a warrant or probable cause. This type of mass surveillance is a blatant violation of the Fourth Amendment.”
Making the violation worse, the Institute noted, is that since Flock “pools its data in a centralized database, police across the entire country can access over 1 billion monthly datapoints. That means not just tracking drivers within a particular jurisdiction, but potentially across the entire nation.”
“Following someone’s every move can tell you some incredibly intimate details about them, such as where they work, who they associate with, whether or not they’re religious, what hobbies they have, and any medical conditions they may have,” said IJ lawyer Robert Frommer. “This type of intrusive, ongoing monitoring of someone’s life is not just creepy, it’s unconstitutional.”
The scheme gives police the ability to spy on people without any judicial oversight.
Imagine walking into court to challenge a ticket when the only evidence is from a machine powered by artificial intelligence. We already know that AI allows for deep fake videos. Think of the potential for abuse here.
The really sick part of this story is that the Agenda 2030 surveillance state is being implemented at the local level. And many cities are able to pay for the digital enslavement of their residents with federal dollars as the incentive. Why aren’t more Republican political figures talking about this?
Some abuses have already been documented, the Institute said, noting just a couple of examples:
- In Kansas, the Institute reports that officials were caught using Flock to stalk their exes, including one police chief who used Flock 228 times over four months to track his ex-girlfriend and her new boyfriend’s vehicles.
- In California, several police departments violated California law by sharing data from their license-plate reader database with other departments across the country. And as is the case with other databases, these can be susceptible to hacking, which can reveal private data.
Comparitech looked at a variety of camera types that have become ubiquitous in U.S. cities of all sizes.
- Fixed CCTV cameras.
- Cameras accessed through real-time crime centers.
- Private cameras within the police force’s network.
- Cameras on public transport facilities.
- Traffic cameras.
- Streetlight cameras.
Not to mention, FedEx and Amazon are also spying on you each time they make a delivery to your home.
Tech writer Kim Komando reports in an October 22, 2022 article that the study even looked at police departments that access people’s private Ring doorbell data.
She writes: “Did you know that police can access your Ring footage without your permission? Tap or click here to stop law enforcement from asking you for any videos. While at it, you’ll want to disable Amazon’s shared wireless network, known as Sidewalk. Here’s how to opt out of Sidewalk on your Amazon devices.”
Using Census.gov data, this is what the Comparitech study showed:
- 44.2 million people are being monitored by 270,000 cameras.
- Atlanta was the most surveilled city, with a ratio of 48.93 cameras per 1,000 people.
- Chicago had the highest number of cameras at 32,000.
- 28 of the police departments have access to Ring doorbell technology and have submitted a total of 728 requests for access to footage in the third quarter of 2020.
The top 10 most surveilled cities in the US as of October 2022
Based on the number of cameras per 1,000 people, these are the 10 most surveilled cities in the U.S.:
- Atlanta, Georgia – 24,800 cameras for 506,811 people = 48.93 cameras per 1,000 people.
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania – 28,064 cameras for 1,584,064 people = 17.72 cameras per 1,000 people.
- Denver, Colorado – 12,273 cameras for 727,211 people = 16.88 cameras per 1,000 people.
- Washington, District of Columbia – 11,441 cameras for 705,749 people = 16.21 cameras per 1,000 people.
- San Francisco, California – 14,266 cameras for 881,549 people = 16.18 cameras per 1,000 people.
- Las Vegas, Nevada – 10,208 cameras for 651,319 people = 15.67 cameras per 1,000 people.
- Detroit, Michigan – 8,836 cameras for 670,031 people = 13.19 cameras per 1,000 people.
- Chicago, Illinois – 32,000 cameras for 2,693,976 people = 11.88 cameras per 1,000 people.
- Portland, Oregon – 6,411 cameras for 654,741 people = 9.79 cameras per 1,000 people.
- Fresno, California – 4,706 cameras for 531,576 people = 8.85 cameras per 1,000 people.
—
2024 is almost over and LeoHohmann.com needs your help if Leo is going to be able to bring you another year of independent news and analysis. This site is totally independent and ad free, meaning nothing is owed to any corporate or government entity. I depend only on my readers to support the reporting and critical analysis you find on this site. If you appreciate these updates and wish to support my work, you may send a donation of any size c/o Leo Hohmann, PO Box 291, Newnan, GA 30264, or donate via credit card below. Thank you.
“The surveillance state has arrived… and it’s being implemented by our cities and towns”
Not one camera has reduced crime. Instead, crime keeps on exploding.
In Chimpcago the so-called shot spotter system has been dismantled by the head chimp. Mayor Johnson.
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/shotspotter-tecnology-goes-dark-sunday-night-chicago/#:~:text=%2C%22%20he%20said.-,%22That%20is%20not%20only%20irresponsible%2C%20but%20that%20is%20dangerous.,across%20the%20city%20starting%20Monday.
The following is an accurate link to Chimpcago’s city values.
https://heyjackass.com/
Hohmann makes reference to his colleagues at World Net Daily:
A jew publication.
I remember reading that UK had the most surveillance-cameras per head-of-population of anywhere on Planet Earth…
and that was over TWENTY YEARS AGO!!!! 🤣
The institute of Justice? LMAO. Another worthless controlled op organization run by ZOG , just like the ACLU which stood by idle while the U.S. constitution was eviscerated post 9/11. Cases similar to this are either lead down a dead end street or fast tracked through the courts, scripted for defeat, in order to establish legal precedent and another cog the Orwellian wheel,
https://ij.org/staff/michael-soyfer/
Can you guess the ethnicity of Michael Soyfer, attorney filing the suit?
BTW, notice the Masonic arms folded pose along with the right hand doing the ‘hidden hand’ gesture at the same time. In addition- Masonic red, white, and blue shirt, jacket and tie as well as his gaze away from camera to the side which is also Masonic
LOL..
“The surveillance state has arrived”…
Well I’ve got some news for Leo it’s been here for thirty years, there are more cameras pointed at the denizens of Pirate Rock than there are imbeciles shuffling around the shithole..
but guess what ….when you look at the latest axe attack mass rape or exploding mullah on the nine o’clocka jewes all you get on the scrying glass are ghostly lo res images apparently filmed on childrens toy from 1990..
Of course characters like Leo and all the google jewes filling your brains with magic, want you to believe that you are actually a character in the shitflick ‘Minority Report’..
and guess what? most of the criminals are…
In fact, i’d go so far as to say that ZOGUK is the original ‘Spook State’… the template from which other ‘Surveillnace States’ can trace their lineage…
with the measure of its efficacy being that not one THICK Brit in 10,000 would have the slightest idea that it even exists… so ingrained is it in the “It’s always been like this” Pleb Psyche…
and, should you be so insolent as to even hint that it exists, would surely result in your being barred from polite company… if not from the local pub… where ‘the shekel’ – no matter what the source – usually overrides other concerns..
If people were to start watch the masons every move, contact and comunication, that be a step in the right direction, as that is where all TRESON stemms.
In 2008 I worked in a cctv controlroom monitoring about a dozen cameras in a neighbourhood with abundant criminality, it worked pretty good for street control, observations and violence or robberies taking place. Now private doorbell cams and carcams beat all those systems not only by numbers but on every street and corner imaginable .. only delivering intel afterwards.
Martin–excellent suggestion!
El Paso, Texas, where we shop sometimes, has over 750,000 people but is not on the top ten list. Maybe because they fear the FedGov will “sue” them if they track the movements of all the illegals from Juarez? Hmmmmmm……. After all, FedGov needs these cartel folks from Juarez to traffick children for their “pleasure,” right?
Why don’t our peeping toms just put ankle monitors on all of us? And who’s to say they aren’t stalking us?
The sheeple are going to love having cameras in every room of their home. Finally they will feel safe at long last. They might feel a bit disappointed when videos of them making out in the bedroom shows up on TikTok though. We need more bladerunners to take down these fricking cameras.
I have, unfortunately, been to every shitty on that list, except for that whirlewind of despair known as Fresno, and the only one I have any desire to go back to is Washingstein District of Criminals…and that would only be to beat the piss out of every one in sight and chop their f*cking heads off.
Niglanta is overrun with street simians.
Philthadelphia is 95% abject shit-hole.
Denver is bursting with leftist retards.
Washingstein DC should literally be incinerated end to end with everyone in it.
San Frnashitsco is a total f*cking disaster thanks to a criminally insane brand of liberalism.
Lost Vegas is chock full of seedy degenerates and can turn back into a desert for all I care.
Detroit…well…it’s Detroit.
Chimpcago should be walled off and turned into The Purge theme park it has been so desperately trying to emulate.
Portland…I had some good times n Portland back in the day, but it is an open-air insane asylum in which just about every single inhabitant is begging for an ass kicking.
Fresno, nobody f*cking cares.
I have had some really good times in the past in many of the cities listed above, even Washingstein way back in my college days when I was there with some friends for a concert, was tripping on acid, and banged a smoking hot coed from Florida State with huge cans. I wish I could remember her name, but I don’t think I even knew it then. Anyway, those good times in those cities are long f*cking gone, and the earth could open them up and swallow them whole for all I care.
Where is Chimpcargo in the USA….haven’t heard of it??…..no doubt a centre of excellence in some field.?.
cameras in london are every few yards
yet when the pervert spy in the suitcase was murdered
no one saw a damn thing
word on the street was mossad
special branch was told to stand down
Jenrick accuses ministers of complicity in a ‘racist institutional cover-up’ over mass migration costs
Story by Gordon Rayner
Robert Jenrick has accused ministers of being complicit in a “racist institutional cover-up” over the costs of mass migration.
The former housing minister who is running to be the next leader of the Conservative party said the public were “sick of the wool being pulled over their eyes” on the economic and social costs of net migration, which reached 685,000 last year. He accused the Government of refusing to publish proper statistics on crimes committed in the UK by foreign nationals “out of misplaced fear of harming social cohesion”.
Mr Jenrick said no field of policymaking is as “shrouded in secrecy” as that regarding migrants. While he says the report by the Office for Budget Responsibility last month found low-skilled migrants are costing the country more in benefits, healthcare and pensions than they pay in tax.
Thousands marched in support of Tommy Robinson wanting to stop government people trafficking
Among the migrants are criminal gangs those needing complex NHS operations homosexuals men in pink trousers and people just wanting to live on benefits
Several petitions reached number 10 this week to deport anyone with a criminal record
But but this is the land of the free (har har har) and the home of the brave (har har har).
@UB
For your sake, I sure hope the name of that broad you banged wasn’t “Camela”… or even worse “Hillary”!! 🤣
Top 10 most surveilled cities ll run by democRATS. Big surprise