It doesn't solve the problem and it's so big brotherish it's stomach turning.

A van with cameras behind bullet proof glass. Nothing a can of paint can't fix.

But let me get this straight. They made it as conspicuous as possible to discourage drug and prostitution crimes. Ok I get that. But they are going to man it with officers to monitor the cameras when they know that because of it's conspicuousness it will stop crime in it's parked location. So in essence the officers are getting paid to sit on their butts doing nothing. Watching cameras that will not capture any crime. Hmmmmm!

A paintball gun since you wouldn't want to walk up to one in disguise(you'd be closely monitored) or without a disguise to then be caught on camera or allegedly tackled and beaten (disguise/no disguise) by the supposed officers sitting inside.

Also I'm sure balloons of paint, or rotten tomatoes etc would all work too if you didn't have a paintball gun handy/don't want to get attacked/shot if someone sees you firing it and so on.

Not saying that one should do that but a piece of bullet proof glass with cameras behind it can be defeated in so many ways or just vandalized like anything can.

Wonder how far we would get if WE had a identical truck filming police behavior?

we will each have a drone assigned to us very soon.

To protect and serve?

Or to intimidate, threaten, and fill private prisons?

where you have more CCTV per head than anywhere else I can think of

and if you are not doing anything illegal, why would it bother me?

people who preface that remark with "yawn" & "country X is worse" are particularly disturbing.

Sky spy drones. You are right, no good and loyal citizens should be objecting to this anyhow.

Went through there last month, was stopped at "checkpoints" 4 times. At one they had armed cops with dogs sniffing every car that went through. It was quite fascist.

They keep tightening the noose a little at a time, and people not only take it but have that "I'm not doing anything wrong" attitude.

If you aren't doing anything wrong then you shouldn't be subject to fascist searches... Had they asked for my "papers" I would have thought I was in Europe in the 40's...

It is infuriating, and all too common now.

It is well past time for Americans to say, "enough is enough."

People need to experience it for themselves before they will wake up.

Whatever. Aren't the most grave threats to our liberty things like a progressive tax code, Social Security, and gay marriage? C'mon, xchrom...

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there are a lot of other things the police and ptbs should be doing than parking a truck to make it look like
it's gonna stop crime.

It's like they don't understand "cell phones". You know, "hey, the police are parked over near 34th and 5th, so why don't you sell that crack 5 blocks north,south,east or west.

We could really use that money to upgrade the homeless facilities and maybe fix some of the roads that aren't near tropicana field. Maybe a bit more for after school activities at the parks would be in order too.

This is another waste of tax payer dollars.

In a call with my councilmans office I found out he just heard about this last week,there was no mention of it anywhere until they (the police) unveiled it.

Now it seems to me more community police officers would serve a better purpose than a truck sitting in one spot.