Blinking Blue Lights

I am not sure who has noticed, but if you have driven through West philly since last monday you may have seen blinking blue lights on top of light post. Well you should get used to it, Philadelphia has hired unisys to install 250 camera throughout the city. These cameras are being placed on high crime corners throughout the city, there were 12 test camera launched in 2007. You may have noticed it on the corner of Broad and Erie.

"The cameras will capture images and send them via a secure wide area network to the city’s central monitoring facility staffed and managed by city personnel. An online storage system will maintain those images for forensic evaluation." .unisys.com November 19, 2007

Personally, they said this was announced last October or November but no one in Philadelphia seemed to know. Some people know me other do not, but each week i have a ton of odd magazines that come to my house. I recieved one that was called Government Video, talks about advancement in government technology, but real big on the cover was Philadelphia Under Surveillance. Here is a link to the article.



*Side note about video recording in the streets of Philly

Local Hardcore Punk band Paint it Black Played outside of Sailor Jerry's, for the world priemere of the doc about him. The concert took place on 13th and Sansom st in Center City Philadelphia. Here is some footage from the show.



Enjoy!

* Note watch the last 30 seconds in which is a kid jumping from a twelve foot tree.