Joe Wright
Activist Post

New York is now widely regarded as the pinnacle of the police state. The full-spectrum surveillance grid in place supposedly utilizes biometrics and a city-wide camera system that supplies real-time data to law enforcement. A physical militarized presence gives parts of the city the feel of an armed encampment consisting of 35,000 uniformed officers and 15,000 civilian employees - a combined force larger than the FBI.

The "ring of steel" is essentially a full-time counterterrorism operation on American soil that even has the ability to shoot down planes. A NYPD social media unit was set up to track pre-crime "criminal language" on Twitter and Facebook, as well as a stated commitment to developing pre-crime software in an agreement with Microsoft under a Domain Awareness System.

The intent seems to be to design a high-tech level of tracking and databasing all passersby under a guilty-until-proven-innocent framework. Certainly once drones are brought fully into American skies in 2015, it is reasonable to assume they will make an appearance over New York...

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