POLICING AND SURVEILLANCE

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POLICING AND SURVEILLANCE

• A Critical Investigation

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Experiencing Surveillance

• What are the ways you experience surveillance in
  your everyday lives?
• What do you think about it?
• What do you do about it?

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What makes a video camera a surveillance device?
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How the Device is Used Who Participates in
Decisions
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Dimensions of Use

• Uneven Power
• Restricted Access

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Structure of Participation

• Consent is Rarely a Dialogue
• Rarely Do We Know Who is Watching, Who is
  Analyzing Who is Making Truth Claims

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A Working Definition

• Watching, usually without invitation, from a
  position of power and with the intent of
  exercising power over those who are being watched
  

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Two Questions

• When is surveillance appropriate to use?
• How well does it work for those purposes?

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Coping with Crime
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Dealing with Crime

• Deterrence/Prevention
• Flawed Plans/Few Evaluations
• Vehicular Theft/Traffic Crimes
• Private Security/Store Theft
• Investigation/Apprehension
• Public Bullying
• Criminal Use of Surveillance Systems

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Confronting Terrorism
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Dealing with Terrorism

• Keeping Bad Guys Out
• Biometric Markers/ID Cards
• Terrorists Operate Under True Identity
• Data Base Management/Watch Lists
• Reduction in Foreign Students/Tourists
• Border Crossing
• Human/Technology Mix

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Is Surveillance Contrary to Democratic Principles?
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Surveillance Technologies and the Just Society

• Transparency/Openness/Participation
• Privacy and Personal Life Choices
• Narrowing Freedom Structuring Places

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Resisting Surveillance and Technology
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Cop Watching

• Cop Watching and Counter-Surveillance
• In-Band and Out-of-Band
• Rules of Video Activism
• Counter-Surveillance Critique