Category archives for: Human Rights

More CCTV cameras are coming in the U.S. after Boston Terror.

A recent poll showed that only 40% of Americans supported more cameras in the name of public safety – and only 12% wanted fewer cameras. And yet, more cameras are coming in the United States. Police officers in Denver, Phoenix, Chicago and other cities are relying more on surveillance video to help fight crime. READ [...]

Boston: Armored vehicles like this were key in detention of Marathon terrorists.

Lenco Armored Vehicles is the producer of this armored vehicle that assisted Boston Police in the detention of terrorist suspect no. 2.  Lenco is a designer and manufacturer of armored tactical vehicles. The Lenco BEAR and BearCat are used everyday by Law Enforcement, Military and Government Agencies in the U.S. and abroad.

John Kerry: U.S. has not decided whether to recognize Maduro as President of Venezuela.

The United States is refusing to acknowledge Nicolas Maduro as the rightfully elected President of Venezuela in a razor-thin victory. The U.S. is also calling for a “credible and transparent process to reassure the Venezuelan people regarding the results.” Shortly thereafter Venezuela’s Supreme Court announced there would be no recount. Secretary of State John Kerry [...]

Chavez is dead and Venezuela is in a deep crisis.

CARACAS, Venezuela — President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela died Tuesday afternoon after a long battle with cancer, the venezuelan  government announced. His departure  alters the political balance in Venezuela,  and in Latin America, where Mr. Chávez led a group of populist governments. With the president’s death, the Constitution says that the nation should “proceed to [...]

Friscoe Police finds strong opposition to use of Taser.

The San Francisco Police Commission is studying the Taser´s issue and  just finished holding the last of three community forums to gather public feedback. Nearly all the testimony was strongly opposed to the use of Tasers in San Francisco. READ MORE HERE: San Francisco Police does not fancy Tasers.  

U.S. VP Joe Biden´s gun control panel with comprehensive plan to secure schools including more police.

The Obama administration is considering funding many more police officers in public schools to secure campuses, a leading Democratic senator said, part of a broad gun violence agendathat is likely to include a ban on high-capacity ammunition clips and universal background checks. The school safety initiative, one of several under consideration, would make federal dollars [...]

All four legs of Homeland´s Blue Campaign against human trafficking: public awareness, victim assistance, law enforcement and increased prosecution.

The United States Department of Homeland Security DHS launched the Blue Campaign in 2010 to more effectively combat human trafficking through four strategies: 1) enhanced public awareness, 2) improve victim assistance, 3)  strengthen law enforcement investigations 3)  increasing prosecution. With an estimated 20.9 million victims (source ILO), every year, men, women, and children are enslaved [...]

Cuban activist leader Oswaldo Paya died in car crash. Circumstances of death are in dispute.

Oswaldo Payá, an Cuban activist who spent decades trying to build a  movement the Christian Liberation Movement (MCL) that would pressure the government of Fidel Castro to allow more freedom and human rights, died Sunday in a car crash in Bayamo, a city some 750 kilometers (460 miles) east of Havana.  He was 60. Paya [...]

Mexican government to compensate crime victims

The Americas Post - Faces of crime victims hover like ghosts over the Ecatepec slums in Mexico City

  Mexico’s congress approved a law Monday to recognize and protect the rights of crime victims, a longstanding demand in a country where more than 47,500 people have died in 5½ years of drug-related violence, and thousands more have disappeared. The law covers the dead, wounded, kidnapped or missing whether they are ordinary civilians or are [...]

Hitachi camera can scan 35 million “biometric” faces per second and find any target.

New Big Brother story. A new CCTV camera technology from Hitachi Hokusai Electric can scan days of archived camera footage instantly, and find any face which has ever walked past it. The camera ‘processes’ faces as it records, so that all faces which pass in front of it are recorded and stored instantly as a [...]

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