Atlanta Fusion Center Creates A Massive 30,000 Surveillance Camera Network Targeting Black People
A recent article in the Atlanta Journal Constitution claims the Atlanta Police Department's Real-Time Crime Center (Fusion Center) has just created a 4,500 real-time camera surveillance network using "Connect Atlanta."
"Connect Atlanta, a network of more than 4,500 surveillance cameras from across the city, will allow officers to pull up footage on their cellphones and laptops from inside their squad cars, before they even get to a scene, the department said Wednesday."
Police are calling "Connect Atlanta" a game-changer.
“It’s connected to our dispatch so that gives us the proactive ability to immediately see the cameras related to calls as they come in and relay that information to officers,” he said. “That’s going to be a game-changer for us," Deputy Chief Michael O’Connor said.
The article also revealed that police use "Connect Atlanta" to monitor shoppers and fans in real-time at the Lenox Square shopping center, the Mercedes-Benz Stadium, and much more.
A three year old article in the Atlanta Journal Constitution revealed that Atlanta's fusion center has already created a network of at least 11,000 surveillance cameras.
"When the initiative was announced in September 2011, authorities had access to about 100 public and private cameras. Today it’s around 11,000, a feat that has Atlanta near the top in a study of cities using security footage."
"Connect Atlanta" has all the earmarks of police cam-share networks that have been sprouting up in cities across the country. As of 2018, there were at least 36 different types of police cam-share programs, and they all have the same thing in common; sharing business and homeowner surveillance camera footage with police departments without a warrant.
After all the recent Black Lives Matters protests and living through two plus years of COVID lockdowns, law enforcement thinks that now would be a great time to create a massive surveillance network of 30,000 CCTV cameras.
"By next year, O’Connor estimates the number of Atlanta businesses sharing their camera feeds with police will reach at least 30,000."
O'Connor admits that no one will be safe from Big Brother's gaze as a network of more than 30,000 surveillance cameras will make it hard for any Black person to travel anywhere without being monitored by Homeland Security/law enforcement.
“It’s not going to be tomorrow. It may not even be next year. But over time it’s going to be so hard to do anything where you’re not seen by one of these surveillance systems,” he said. “It’s getting harder and harder to do something and get away with it,” O'Connor said.
Imagine living in a city of 5.6 million people where roughly 2.8 million of them are Black and being told by the police that they are going to surveil everyone, every where where they go. Has Black oppression really ended or has it taken on a new form of 24/7 fusion center surveillance?
According to Fūsus CEO Chris Lindenau, police in 85 communities across the country are using Fūsus software to track millions of innocent minorities in real-time.
