That’s the message, plain and simple, that New York Police Commissioner Ray Kelly had for anyone thinking of making an attack against the city.
Jaw-dropping highlights from the segment include increadible AI (spots unattended bags and alerts authorities), colour-based AI (“computer, please track all red shirts in view of video feed”) and a camera system that would probably give surveillance-happy London a run for its money.
Rounding it all out was a radiation detection system that is apparently so sensitive there were false positives occurring with citizens who had recently completed radiation therapy On top of that the system is exhaustively expansive: police trucks, cars, outposts and officers all have some form of the detector installed or on their person at all times.
The system, 10 years in the making, has purportedly stopped or prevented 13 terrorists plots against the city. [60 Minutes]
EckyThump
Monday, September 26, 2011 at 12:40 PMYes,.. now try to navigate the country by air without being harassed, or make a phone call, privately,.. how much are they spending on the military! But hey! they are winning the war on terrorism! Heh,.. bloody joke! #]
EckyThump
Monday, September 26, 2011 at 12:42 PMYes, I no longer have any respect for a once great and mighty bastion of democracy,… go figure…!
Ozoneocean
Monday, September 26, 2011 at 1:46 PMHaving flown all around about and across there just last month, I can tell you it’s very easy.
New York is also a nice place to visit- no signs of the country being a police state in and shape or form.
The only place I ran into anything like that was on the way out of Mexico where Mexican officials in Military gear boarded the bus looking for illegal emigrants or drugs or something…
wsDK_II
Monday, September 26, 2011 at 1:30 PMAmerica lost to terrorism a long time ago.
Who would seriously want to go there to live? not many people from what i have heard. Australia is still an OK place to live although we are going the way of america :(
Ozoneocean
Monday, September 26, 2011 at 1:52 PMI’d live there! Man, everything is so cheap! Not just electronics and petrol, but food, rent, houses, and clothes as well. EVERYTHING! With an amazing variety of things to buy in the shops from all over the place.
Plus, the people are nice and friendly.
Australia by comparison is way, way, way out of the way with only a teeny tiny variety of stuff available in the shops for extremely inflated prices. And most of it is cheap crap from China.
EckyThump
Monday, September 26, 2011 at 2:20 PMYou may be right when looking at the veneer of the country, but I’m afraid when I read news that states that the big companies that caused the financial meltdown are still operating business as usual! Where people can’t afford health care! Plus various issues that go deeper into the fabric of how the country runs, then add the points I made earlier, and you have a sick sick country indeed! Just last week there was a post about them buying 22 ships at two hundred and fifty million each….. Sorry dude, they lost it a long time ago!
ozoneocean
Tuesday, September 27, 2011 at 2:52 AMThe only real issue I came across in the states is the amazing love they have for all things military.
EckyThump
Monday, September 26, 2011 at 12:58 PMI love america so much, its the bestest
EckyThump
Monday, September 26, 2011 at 2:13 PMWhomever it was that used my nickname,.. you sir are a complete tool, and not the useful kind!
Shane
Monday, September 26, 2011 at 2:19 PMOh, I thought “They” had “got to you”!
EckyThump
Monday, September 26, 2011 at 2:22 PMYeah, I know it sounds silly, but it’s not the first time, and the way the comments are set up needs to be addressed! Danny’s been promising for awhile now that they’re going to do something about it, but nothing so far!
citizen7
Monday, September 26, 2011 at 1:11 PMHow are they paying for all that, and how long can they continue to pay for all that?
Mike
Monday, September 26, 2011 at 1:20 PMHow? With IOUs. Look how well that turned out for THE ENTIRE WORLD. Thank you America, now stfu and stop using your credit card.
LucasF
Monday, September 26, 2011 at 6:26 PMHey EckyThump – you got nothing else to do?
You commented on this article 5 times.
3 times you were responding to yourself.
Seriously?
Otacon
Monday, September 26, 2011 at 9:23 PMIf I was a citizen I wouldn’t care that my government was using this amount of money to protect me.
People like criticizing everything.
Mogwai
Tuesday, September 27, 2011 at 6:13 AMPerhaps you dont actually remember what happened on 9/11. None of this crap would stop that same incident happening again.
Meanwhile they are bankrupting your entire country for this false sense of security and eventually china will own your ass because they are they own more us dollars than you are able to print. Evently when they will get pissed at this they might just decide sell off all their us dollars, collapse your currency and just invade you for what little assets they can get back.
Chuck
Tuesday, September 27, 2011 at 2:35 AMBravo Commissioner Ray Kelly and the collective NYC metro area security complex!