Just weeks after San Diego police installed smart streetlights in Hillcrest, they announced they’ve set more cameras at the Gaslamp District ahead of…
Just weeks after San Diego Police installed smart streetlights in Hillcrest, they announced they’ve set more cameras at the Gaslamp District
“I live down here downtown, so I’m seeing a lot of things happen down here. Actually, things have happened to me down here, just recently had my finger cut off with a machete. I mean it’s needed down here,” Lowe said.San Diego Police Chief Scott Wahl sent a memo to San Diego city councilmembers last week. It cites an exigent need for the police department to install smart streetlights in nine new locations throughout downtown and around the San Diego Convention Center.
The memo says: “the anticipated large attendance may serve as a potential target of opportunity for individuals or groups interested in committing violent or criminal acts.”However, privacy advocates are worried the police department is circumventing city law… since the municipal code defines exigent circumstances as “emergency situations involving death or serious physical injury to any individual or imminent danger or significant property damage.
“When any department, including the police, comes along, and says this event that has been scheduled years ahead of time, or this event that we’ve all known about, essentially is an emergency, makes an emergency, even though we don’t have any particular knowledge of any particular threat, and we want to skip the rules, and we want to do everything without oversight, that kind of activity is very concerning it’s very alarming to us. We don’t believe that that is the right direction for the city.
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