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From New York Times:

The Lower Manhattan Security Initiative is taking after London’s Ring of Steel and should be running by 2010. It will include ANPR or license plate readers, 3,000 cameras, a variety of sensors (biohazard), and even movable roadblocks. So far the department has raised $25 million of the needed $90 million. The money to date will be spent on license plate readers, both fixed and mobile (including helicopters).

Most of the cameras would be owned by private firms (not sure if they will be tracking public or private areas). Also “pivoting gates would be installed at critical intersections; they would swing out to block traffic or a suspect car at the push of a button.”

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