Critics say the security system, used by police in Rialto, Redondo Beach, Hawthorne, San Gabriel and across the nation, can be abused by law enforcement.
Building new commercial and residential projects in the city of Rialto comes with a unique condition: developers must link their security cameras to a police surveillance system that allows officers to watch their properties in real time.provides police with an ability to prevent and solve crime by merging public cameras with private cameras at businesses, churches and homes that agree to participate.
Police, however, say society is already awash in cameras, installed by security-minded businesses and homeowners. Law enforcement is just trying to plug into them — with the permission of the owners — in the name of public safety. “I understand the implication of losing privacy, but before FUSUS, we had businesses that would just provide us their log-in ,” said Cpl. Nicholas Parcher, who stressed that the development provision applies only to external cameras. “We’re not requesting to see intimate parts of a business.”
The festival was Redondo Beach’s first test of the system, giving the small department the same kind of surveillance that large metropolitan cities have had for years using other high-priced, integrated camera systems.For a fee, FUSUS hooks together public and private cameras, creating what the company calls a “real-time crime center in the cloud.” There are options for multiple levels of participation.
If footage is needed in the middle of the night, police would no longer have to wake the resident or business owner and manually download the video onto a thumb drive. They can just upload the video, said Parcher of Rialto. Redondo Beach has 55 integrated cameras and 90 that have been registered throughout the 6-square-mile city.
Hawthorne has about 70 cameras linked in. Police access is tracked by the department to reduce abuse. Users are given access to various functions based on their role, and they do not have access to the entire system unless their job requires it.Andrew Ferguson, a law professor at American University in Washington, D.C., and an expert on big data surveillance, said there is no proof that security cameras prevent crimes or make the public safer.
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