Step by step, the panopticon is coming to our community. The 18th century British philosopher Jeremy Bentham designed the panopticon, a building configured to enable jailers to watch prisoners from a ...

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Surveillance technology helped track the suspect in the shootings at Brown University and the slaying of an MIT professor. But it was a Reddit user who 'blew this case right open' with an ...

Every fan of old crime novels or cop movies is familiar with the classic police “stakeout”: round-the-clock surveillance by police hiding in a car or camped out in an apartment across the street, ...

Over the past decade, the city’s network has proliferated, and many observation points now have the ability to zoom, pan and scan. Cameras are mounted on street lights all over Philadelphia The closed ...

For U.S. K-12 schools, school districts, institutions of higher education, and healthcare facilities, video surveillance is a must-have technology that most campus public safety and security ...