A constant live stream of the street was pumped straight to police headquarters from four surveillance cameras.
Glesmer surveilled the community from 4:50 p.m. until just after midnight the next morning.
Me being the person I am and my skin color, I might be a statistic.
Through Fusus, police departments now have access to live feeds from hundreds of privately owned cameras.© Adriano Contreras/Gizmodo
it really doesnt matter if they can watch live streams, he said.
They gon take their sweet time to get out here anyway.
Researchersarguethat hypersurveillance of subsidized communities helps create a public-housing-to-prison pipeline.
A surveillance camera looks out over a playground in the McClinton Nunn Homes development © Gizmodo
Its clearly discrimination on some level.
Axon did not respond to Gizmodos request for comment.
you could never be too safe around here, said Tyrone Williams, who lives in Weiler Homes.
Police watched the cameras on Leach Avenue in the Weiler Homes development more than almost any other cameras in the city. © Gizmodo
you’re free to watch all you want, but you gotta do something, he said.
An Expensive Expansion
Fusus came to Toledo quietly.
LMHA did not respond to additional written questions.
Eureka Multifamily Group, the owner of Greenbelt Place Apartments, did not respond to a request for comment.
For other cameras, the data gives only a vague idea of where the devices are located.
Lacking Legal Safeguards
Gizmodo asked the Toledo Police Department for its policies governing the use of Fusus.
In response, Flores provided a one-paragraphbulletindated January 2024, six months after the department launched Fusus.
Gary Daniels, from the ACLU of Ohio, described the policy as wholly inadequate.
Fususs audit logs are supposed to act as a safeguard against the system being misused.
Other police surveillance technologies do collect that data.
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