Surveillance cameras that scold you

[nomo]

<!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.boingboing.net/2006/09/18/surveillance_cameras.html">www.boingboing.net/2006/0...meras.html</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br>Surveillance cameras that scold you<br><br>Surveillance cameras in Middlesbrough, England have been outfitted<br>with speakers so that operators can yell at citizens who they see<br>misbehaving. Other similar "talking" systems have been installed<br>elsewhere. From the BBC News:<br><br>> "For example, if an operative now sees someone dropping litter,<br>> they can tell them to pick it up, or if they see an incident<br>> starting to get out of hand, they can give advice that will<br>> hopefully nip it in the bud," (said Barry Coppinger, Middlesbrough<br>> Council's executive member for community safety.)<br>><br>> "I think that it will give people extra confidence as they go about<br>> their business and re-enforce the message that Middlesbrough is a<br>> place that is constantly thinking about community safety."<br><br><<!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/tees/5353538.stm>">news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_ne...53538.stm></a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--> <p></p><i></i>

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[OpLan]

Tell me about it lol..I live there.<br><br>Ray Mallon..Ruled over Cleveland constabulary when their way of dealing with heroin addicts was to lock them in a cell and dangle bags of heroin through the inspection window.."tell us who your dealer is and you can have your drug.."<br><br>Now as Mayor he thinks he can turn this tiny little town into another Newcastle.They just ripped up a lovely victorian garden in the centre of town to build a museum of art.<br><br>I have been told that Mallon is godfather to the child of one of the biggest criminals in the area.<br><br>Granting the polytechnic college university status has attracted a lot of students to the area.This has to a certain extent had a calming effect on the population,but drinking in the town centre can still be dangerous.You can have your face rearranged for simply being there.<br>The fact that students get discounted prices in so many bars does cause some degree of resentment,as non students pay higher prices for the same beer..prices inflated to offset the losses from the student discounts.Students have also been blamed for the rise in the number of fast food shops in town,as well as housing being lost to ordinary people.Areas of the town become deserted in college holidays.<br><br>It has been mooted that these cameras will soon have microphones attached as well..lovely.<br><br>We always get the new toys to play with here.They were condemned for pepper spraying a 14 year old girl when that was first deployed.I think they try all their new weapons and tactics up here.They wouldn't be able to test them on London because there is so much more political activism in the capital.<br><br> <p></p><i></i>