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 [...]
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Thermal-imaging devices have been used to watch the second suspect in this week’s Boston Marathon bombings as he was holed up in his last hiding place, the boat. Authorities said a helicopter equipped with a thermal imager (FLIR — a forward-looking infrared device —) spotted the heat signature of a person inside a tarp-covered boat, sitting [...]
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Recent surveys reflect public safety has not been the priority of the current Brazilian government. The surveys are talkinf about little investment public safety, high rates of crime and homicide, low percentage of homicides cleared by the justice system, increased sense of insecurity of the population, according to an article published by 180graus.com The article [...]
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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 [...]
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The FBI has quietly broken with its long-standing firearms training regimen, putting a new emphasis on close-quarters combat to reflect the overwhelming number of incidents in which suspects are confronting their targets at point-blank range.The new training protocols were formally implemented…READ MORE HERE
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The U.S. State Department has warned American travelers to Mexico to beware of possible violent retaliation for this week’s arrest of alleged Zetas drug cartel associates and family members inside the U.S. Although the government warning did not specify which “Transnational Criminal Organization” might engage in “anti-American” violence, on Tuesday federal authorities arrested seven alleged [...]
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A crusading federal prosecutor in Brazil this week opened his second 20 billion real ($10.9 billion) lawsuit against U.S. oil company Chevron and driller Transocean, doubling the charges against both companies while drawing criticism from other Brazilians. The new lawsuit, the second filed by Eduardo Santos de Oliveira against the companies in less than five months, is related to an oil leak discovered [...]
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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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Sturm Ruger & Co.’s recent announcement that it would freeze orders until it eliminates a huge backlog is the latest indicator that business is great for the U.S. firearms industry. Late Wednesday, Sturm Ruger announced that it had received orders for more than 1 million units during the first quarter of the year. And despite “efforts to increase [...]
For the second time in less than a year, the U.S. State Department has responded to increasing violent crime in Mexico by expanding the list of places that Americans should avoid for their own safety. An updated travel advisory released this week warned U.S. citizens to avoid non-essential travel to 14 states in northern and [...]
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