By MassPrivateI
Leave it to the great American police state to turn Reality TV into real-time spying of its citizens.
Recently the Newark, New Jersey Police Department decided it needed to do more, much more to build trust between the police and the community.
Here’s a little background on police building trust in the community.
Last year, the Newark Police Department received an award from the New Jersey Attorney General for Outstanding Community Policing for its innovative approach to fostering relationships of collaboration and trust between police and the community.How did the Newark Police foster trust between the police and community you ask?
By creating a new community program called CommUNITY & COPS.
image credit: TapIntoNewarkThe CommUNITY & COPS program is a PR program that uses clergy to convince the public that police are your friends.
Specifically, NPD was awarded for its Clergy Patrol, a program that partners members of the city’s 100-member Clergy Alliance with police on scheduled patrols. Using friendly yellow police cruisers, Clergy Patrol members join police in visiting business owners and residents—at their homes, hospitals, shops or schools—each weekday. (Source)
Apparently, the police decided that using the clergy to build trust between them and the community wasn’t enough.
Because this year, they invented a new program designed to encourage citizens to use CCTV cameras to spy on their neighbors in real-time. (To find out more about police using CCTVs to spy on businesses and citizens click here and here.)
Nothing, says ‘outstanding community policing’ like encouraging the community to spy on your neighbors, right DHS?
For years, DHS has been encouraging citizens to become government spies, using phrases like ‘If You See Something, Say Something’ and even asking citizens to take a spy quiz as the picture below shows.
image credit: DHSPolice in New Jersey, have taken ‘See Something, Say Something’, to a whole new level. They are using CCTV cameras to create a city of stay-at-home spies!
Recently, the Newark Police Department unveiled it’s new “Citizen Virtual Patrol” program, encouraging citizens to go to this link and become stay-at-home spies.
A network of surveillance cameras around Newark will soon let people watch various locations in what local leaders are calling “a blockwatch on steroids” (Click here to find out more about Virtual Block Watch.)
image credit: CBS New York
Officials clam that spying on neighbors builds trust
Incredibly or perhaps predictably, the Mayor claims that having citizens spy on their neighbors 24-7, “will result in safer neighborhoods and a stronger partnership between police and the community in safeguarding the City of Newark.”
Keep in mind, all of this is being done while the police department has been under a Consent Decree. Because they have such a trustworthy relationship with their citizens, wink, wink.
Who’s behind turning citizens into government spies?
Look no further than the Department of Justice’s ‘SMART Policing Initiative’ which gave Newark $700,000 to create a network of citizen spies.
Who needs Reality TV shows, when citizens can stay-at-home and spy on thousands of citizens for the Feds?
Does it make you feel safer knowing our government is giving police departments hundreds of thousands of dollars to turn cities into a giant surveillance network?
You can read more at the MassPrivateI blog, where this article first appeared.
Can anyone say East Germany & Stasi?
I always knew that the introduction of the TV show “ big brother” was a social engineering program to get people used to voting each other out of society.
This will be abused!
Innocent actions will be demonised by faceless neighbours with a grudge & no accountability.
Talk about turning everyone against everyone & undermining community trust.
If CCTV cameras were supposed to prevent crime then why has crime increased so much?
Where is all the footage of the “ plane” that crashed into the pentagon?
It will only be used on targeted induividuals for nefarious purposes coz the whole premise is based on a lie.
You’ve got it in one my dear.
The American people are being effectively dumbed down, emotionally charged, and set at each others throat, for the main reason of divide and conquer.
Just as in the last days of Germany, people are being empowered by their corrupt perceived authority to become spies on one another, and there will be instances where revenge and attacks will be extracted by those who now have this power, against their neighbors they dislike.
The morally weak and petty now have a new tool, and it will be abused. But authority likes this because it advances their agenda.
DIVIDE AND CONQUER ORDER OUT OF CHAOS. (their brand of order though, which means you have no rights. Its all for our own good you know, because they care about our safety)
The US government was the perpetrator of 911. We must remove cctv camera from all of America.
It does not matter, because it is criminal action on the parts of those that SERVE WITHIN our governments, and is covered under the “Peepeing Tom” laws for the “neighbors”.
What does matter, is are YOU American enough to fight for your freedom, for your privacy to start PRESSING CHARGES for those crimes against you, and to support your neighbors that do press charges? Hello, any Americans left in this nation?
And the answer is… (crickets chirping)
I would say, very few. But the very definition of being American has been altered to make compliant, self absorbed weak people fit the name. We have become afraid to think for ourselves because peer pressure and groupthink, (by the way of political correctness) dictates we have incorrect judgements and we might be called a name by some SJW or perceived authority ( I think I just repeated myself there) and they must make up our minds FOR US.
See my reply to lil miss below
Your neighbor, your cell phone, your tv, your laptop, your kindle, your smart meter…spies on you all day long.