In a few cities, like Milwaukee and New Orleans, there has been a public debate and pushback. If we fail to stop this technology, every city will become a Smart City and eventually a 15-minute city.
Leo Hohmann – Leo’s Newsletter May 22, 2025
Police in cities across America want to deploy AI-driven facial-recognition technology that’s capable of tracking and identifying every human being who enters public spaces in real time.
Even politicians in some cities are calling for a pause or outright banishment of this technology from ever getting into the hands of cops. But the battle is shaping up to be a big one in cities nationwide, and if I was a betting man I would put my money on the technocrats and the cops. They will likely win out over the few politicians and taxpaying citizens who are concerned about privacy and civil liberties. They almost always do. They have the money and the media propaganda machine on their side.
According to an article in Biometric Update, two-thirds of Milwaukee’s city council says no, they don’t want this technology given to cops. An article in the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel says 11 of 15 city alderpersons signed a letter opposing use of the facial recognition technology by the Milwaukee Police Department, citing concerns about bias, ethics and potential overreach.
Below is an excerpt from the article in Biometric Update, and notice the rationale — it’s always the same whenever technocrats are involved: Safety, speed and efficiency.
Milwaukee police currently don’t have a facial recognition system — but they want one, and have tested the technology. They say it makes solving crimes faster, and “can be done with the appropriate parameters in place to ensure that the use will not violate individual civil rights.” They say it would not be, and had never been, used as exclusively as probable cause to arrest someone. They have pledged to engage in public consultation as part of any formal acquisition process.
Nonetheless, the Council’s letter, written “in strong opposition to the deployment of facial recognition technology by the Milwaukee Police Department,” says that “while we understand the desire to enhance public safety and the promises people have made for this emerging technology, we believe these benefits are significantly outweighed by the risks.”
The article goes on to note that the council’s letter “names potential overreach by the administration of President Donald Trump as a risk factor, as well as studies showing that the majority of facial-recognition algorithms are more likely to misidentify people with darker skin, women and the elderly.
How absurdly shortsighted that their major concern is Trump using this technology. This suggests they’d be perfectly fine with facial-recognition being deployed if we just had a different person in the White House, someone with a “D” in front of their name like Gavin Newsom or Kamala Harris.
The American Civil Liberties Union of Wisconsin has asked the Milwaukee Council to adopt a two-year pause on any new surveillance technology across city services, including police.
But this issue is coming to the fore not just in Milwaukee.
Another city where it’s suddenly up for debate is New Orleans, where Project NOLA is being considered for use by police. Project NOLA is a nonprofit that manages a nationwide crime camera network for police. A hearing is set to determine whether Project NOLA’s facial-recognition integration should be banned, regulated or brought under New Orleans’ municipal authority.
New Orleans police say they are continuing to use Project NOLA, but have paused the receipt of real-time, AI-generated facial recognition alerts.
WHAT’S THE REAL ISSUE HERE?
What we are really dealing with here are powerful and very wealthy technocrats pressuring municipalities worldwide to become Smart Cities. Let’s face it, most members of city councils are not the sharpest people in their community. They have absolutely zero knowledge of where AI and the surveillance state is taking us, nor do they care to educate themselves. They think it’s sexy and cool to purchase and activate the latest surveillance technology, and don’t realize they are playing right into the hands of the elitists at the United Nations, World Economic Forum and other globalist organizations seeking total control over human movement and overall human behavior.
Smart Cities Dive recently published its list of the Top 10 most rapidly developing Smart Cities in America for 2025. Atlanta tops the list, followed by Boston, San Fransisco, Washington, DC, Chicago and Seattle. The list is rounded out by Miami, New York City, Los Angeles and San Jose.
The next stage is to become a 15-minute city. A 15-minute city is just a weaponized Smart City, where authorities weaponize the surveillance technology they’ve already installed and finally admit it’s no longer being used just for our “safety” but to enforce their radical climate agenda and other nefarious agendas related to controlling our behavior.
Facial-recognition scanners combined with vehicle license-plate scanners will allow law enforcement to track the movement of everyone, whether on foot, on a bicycle, on a subway, or in a vehicle. Do we really want to live in an Orwellian society?
While some cities like Milwaukee and New Orleans are publicly grappling with whether to deploy this technology, it’s quietly being implemented in city after city, regardless of size, often with federal funding. Is your city surrepticiously tracking your vehicle and scanning your face everywhere you go within its jurisdiction? You should find out, and make a public issue out of it.
They can watch, but they can’t do anything.
When I look back at all the things I’ve said on this website, and others, & I am assuming it can be seen, they’ve done nothing to me, so far.
I have noticed NaziTube comment boxes just emptying before my eyes. lol
The truth, all these FRS are just tech use, because someone wants to sell it, and there’s some thicko dipshit Nazi willing to spend YOUR money on it.
Nearly everyone carries an ID tracking device, and then they have total vehicle tracking, apart from side roads and residential areas, so they can catch 95% of all criminals, but they don’t, they could catch all the insider trading crooks, but they don’t, and this is because they simply do not have the resources to apply the laws of the land, go to the packed courts, and lock up in the over capacity prisons.
The Nazis are very selective, even for social media infringements, where that sheeple victim is asking for it. So nothing is as real as the fear media would have you believe, and that’s the same for the fake alternative media.
To open a bank account in the uk, you now have to take a video of yourself. This is to store your face in the jew’s database. Now:
1. Anywhere you go, you can be recognised because they have your face on file. Thinking of “protesting”? Think again (or wear a mask).
2. They can make videos of you committing any crime they want by getting someone to act it out and cutting and pasting your face onto the actor. They can also put your voice into the actor’s mouth because you gave them your voiceprint when you “say what you’re calling about” when trying to get “customer service” to help you. And absolutely everyone will believe it’s you in the video.
The next step will be to make it so you can’t go into shops or get on a bus or train, because you’re a “bad guy”.
What, still no fight back? What a surprise…
In the end the only thing that may save us from digital prison is regular rolling blackouts, and because of their own greed in closing down expensive energy plants to try and get free power from the sun and the wind, they may bring down their own digital prison system themselves. They can’t run that system long on batteries and generators, and they won’t employ enough people to learn to run the system properly in a grid-down system. They got so greedy for profit and savings they lost the concept of investing which they so regularly fail to do because no investment = savings = profits.
If we can’t put up with a year or so of regular blackouts to rid ourselves of this system they have planned for us and no doubt run by AI, when no electricity was the case for over 99.999% of human existence, then we deserve the f**king they’re going to give us.
The opening paragraph…
“In a few cities, like Milwaukee and New Orleans, there has been a public debate and pushback. If we fail to stop this technology, every city will become a Smart City and eventually a 15-minute city.”
Then eventually WORLD WIDE, Everywhere like North Korea. (for the majority of us.)
The hunger games scenario is far closer to the intended outcome than most can comprehend.
& ‘they’ do openly admit… the SATT* always informs us beforehand of their ‘plan’.
*Scum At The Top.
Joseph Merrick used to wear a sackcloth over his bonce to evade facial recognition technology. Old elephant head was smarter than a smart city. We could learn from his example.
I’ve got a hairy gorilla mask, which should allow me to move about freely and anonymously for a little while, at least. The only problem is that it’s so hot under the latex and the mask is so poorly ventilated that you quickly begin to asphyxiate. Nonetheless, it’s a tactic worth considering.
Welcome to techno-Communism. Smartphones lead to smart cities. And the Israel Overlords apply ‘climate change’ as the opportune pretext to institute their techno-communist system of EVs & ‘smart machines/cities’.
Jewish agenda here! Must be stopped.
All rendered unnecessary, if we get rid of Islam and begin penalizing black criminals — and in fact any criminals, including criminal politicians, jews, cops, freemasons, and others. Do that and you won’t even need to lock your door at night.
wonderful ! they spare more + more manpower
everywhere . so hopefuly they employ more
surveilance watchers . alone watching 5 km of
central city street would necesitate 20-30 TV screens
to check all faces + vehicle numbers . AI doing all ?
CJ has 2 buttocks for a face …FR not needed
Dave:
This CJ, he is like a squid, hiding his tribe and himself behind the cloud of black ink (Nazi, Nazi, and Donald Hitler) he always excretes from a special Jewish gland.
“The squid strikes again”
cameras have the advantage to be destroyed !