Like most major cities the Atlanta police department can access about 25,000 cameras, 20,000 of which come from the private sector. Couple that with eyeball, facial, voice, DNA, license plate readers, contraband-sniffing dogs/robots, drones, cell phone pings, airport scanners and all the stuff they know about you via the internet/social media … and you ain’t got no secrets.
In George Orwell’s novel, 1984, he predicted the “thought police”. Today, mind-reading might not be possible (yet), but with all the AI-enabled, integrated and intertwined cybersecurity tools, our government (and maybe hackers in foreign nations) have been very successful in predicting when, where, how and what a criminal did…or is planning to do.
The big test is coming in 2028. In addition to regular mega events such as the Super Bowl, World Series, Chicago Lollapalooza, Indianapolis 500, Times Square NYE… America will host the Summer Olympics while experiencing the DNC and RNC conferences plus the presidential election. There are only about 750K local, state and federal sworn LEOs; they will be strained and spread pretty thin. Thus, if terrorists are planning attacks they better be better than all of the above surveillance measures – or at least as good as the Nancy Guthrie kidnappers.
Chuck Klein, Columnist: American Free News Network