Surveillance

Persistent problems with Persistent Surveillance

The executive summary of the Police Foundation's report on the collaboration between the Baltimore Police Department and an Ohio company that flew hundreds of hours of reconnaissance flights over the city, recording everything that went on in 32-square-mile grids at one-second intervals during an eight-month period last year, calls the pilot effort promising and dismisses concerns about the secrecy with which it was carried out as overblown. We wonder whether the person who wrote the executive summary actually read the report because it leads to precisely the opposite conclusion.