Fed Sponsored Police CCTV Cameras Turn People Into Citizen Informers & Snitches on Each Other, Surveilling their “Neighbors" 24/7

Citizen Snitch Force Monitoring Black People in Newark. Uncle Brother's Point is To Make People Fear Each Other. According to FUNKTIONARY, "citizens" are "those who instinctively seek permission or ask themselves whether or not they are allowed to do anything before they act." [MORE]

From [MassPrivatel] Leave it to the great American police state to turn Reality TV into real-time spying of its citizens.

Recently the Newark, New Jersey Police Department decided it needed to do more, much more to build trust between the police and the community.

Here's a little background on police building trust in the community.

Last year, the Newark Police Department received an award from the New Jersey Attorney General for Outstanding Community Policing for its innovative approach in fostering relationships of collaboration and trust between police and the community.

How did the Newark Police foster trust between the police and community you ask?

By creating a new community program called CommUNITY & COPS.

The CommUNITY & COPS program is a PR program that uses clergy to convince the public that police are your friends.

"Specifically, NPD was awarded for its Clergy Patrol, a program that partners members of the city’s 100-member Clergy Alliance with police on scheduled patrols. Using friendly yellow police cruisers, Clergy Patrol members join police in visiting business owners and residents—at their homes, hospitals, shops or schools—each weekday."

Apparently the police decided that using the clergy to build trust between them and the community wasn't enough.

Because this year, they invented a new program designed to encourage citizens to use CCTV cameras to spy on their neighbors in real-time. (To find out more about police using CCTV's to spy on businesses and citizens click here & here.)

Nothing, says 'outstanding community policing' like encouraging the community to spy on your neighbors, right DHS?

For years, DHS has been encouraging citizens to become government spies, using phrases like 'If You See Something, Say Something' and even asking citizens to take a spy quiz as the picture below shows.

Police in New Jersey, have taken 'See Something, Say Something', to a whole new level. They are using CCTV cameras to create a city of stay-at-home spies!

Recently, the Newark Police Department unveiled it's new "Citizen Virtual Patrol" program, encouraging citizens to go to this link and become stay-at-home spies.

“Deploying Citizen Virtual Patrols is an accomplishment we’ve worked tirelessly to bring to our residents,” Director Ambrose said.“Equipping concerned community members with the ability to pinpoint exactly when and where suspicious, criminal or quality of life incidents are occurring empowers more people to play a more active role in neighborhood watch.”

Police to install 300 citizen surveillance cameras

"The 62 cameras were installed in recent months and went live April 26. The next day, 662 people logged into the site, the Mayor’s Office said. The first 60 days are a test phase, Baraka said, with the ultimate goal of installing about 300 cameras across the city."

Amol Sinha, the head of the New Jersey chapter of the ACLU warned:

“It’s going to create a concern where every move of every neighbor is going to be able to be tracked by anybody who wants to watch."

Dorothy E. Roberts, a law professor and sociologist at the University of Pennsylvania warns:

“Whenever you hear about, ‘Well, this is required for safety,’ look at whose rights are being violated in order to protect whose rights,” she said. “Surveillance is not the way to make communities safer."

A network of surveillance cameras around Newark will soon let people watch various locations in what local leaders are calling “a blockwatch on steroids” (Click here to find out more about Virtual Block Watch.)

Officials clam that spying on neighbors builds trust

Incredibly or perhaps predictably, the Mayor claims that having citizens spy on their neighbors 24/7, "will result in safer neighborhoods and a stronger partnership between police and the community in safeguarding the City of Newark.”

Keep in mind, all of this is being done while the police department has been under a Consent Decree. Because they have such a trustworthy relationship with their citizens, wink, wink.

Who's behind turning citizens into government spies?

Look no further than the Department of Justice's 'SMART Policing Initiative' which gave Newark $700,000 to create a network of citizen spies. A recent Philly.com article claims that the project, will cost about $1 million this year alone.

Who needs Reality TV shows, when citizens can stay-at-home and spy on thousands of residents for the Feds?

Does it make you feel safer knowing our government is giving police departments hundreds of thousands of dollars to turn our cities into a giant surveillance network?