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Or you could just not give them millions upon millions of dollars to buy all this military crap in the first place.

>>dflock+(OP)
From this article it appears they can use private funding to purchase things without oversight.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jun/18/police-found...

>>dflock+(OP)
You can do ALPR at a decent level with $100 of hardware. The cost of doing surveillance isn't necessarily going to be a lot

>>Rebelg+t4
Plus a good amount of technical know-how and ops work, which is only free if you're a hobbyist building a proof of concept. If you're the actual NYPD and you want it to work accurately and reliably in prod, you need budget for either in-house tech talent or a company that will do it for you.

>>geofft+w7
True. A city near me paid about $350k for a few dozen ALPR cameras at major intersections. Not a bad price for near total surveillance of every vehicle traveling in and out of town

>>Rebelg+Jc
How do you feel about that?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=SECu1fR0dWE&t...