Project CrisCros – Cameras from Chicago to the Mexican Border
The Chicago Police Department is pushing for the use of 200 cameras along interstate highways between Chicago and Mexico. The cameras would be fitted with ALPR technology, allowing them to identify suspicious cars. This would become the nation’s largest interstate police camera surveillance system. Specifically, the project would include “192 stationary cameras covering roughly 1,200 miles of highway across 13 states and connected to 50 mobile license plate recognition systems in vehicles.” The data that comes out of this will be immense:
Pictures of license plates and the rear end of vehicles would be time-stamped with GPS coordinates and fed into a computer that would compare them against local or national hot lists of suspect vehicles, with the information shared by participating agencies. In addition, the data would be used to analyze trends and develop patterns of travel by vehicles suspected of trafficking contraband between Chicago and the border of Mexico, according to the proposal.
While the original purpose is to identify trends in vehicles carrying drugs, the data could be used for much more. The eight page proposal can be found online at Scribd.
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