Significantly, a good proportion of these private cameras are fakes, that is, aren't plugged in or are obviously empty camera-shaped boxes with no devices inside.
The majority of these cameras (13 in total) are operated by private companies. Old Town, of course, has fewer surveillance cameras than Downtown, i.e., "only" 18 of them. As a result, the Hatfield is strikingly similar to the highly security-conscious buildings now being constructed in Manhattan, that is, "post-September 11th."
Built in 1997, that is, in the aftermath of the bombing of the federal building in Oklahoma City, the Hatfield is a "smart building." All eight of its exterior surveillance cameras are globe-shaped, fully integrated into the building's design, and thus very difficult to spot. The other notable Downtown cameras are installed on the exteriors of the Mark O.
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One hears that this camera is operated by a location TV station, which imagines itself clever when it violates the privacy of the people who happen to be enjoying the meagre comforts of this all-brick "urban park" by using these unwitting people as walk-on actors in its cut-away presentations of Portland "as it really is." But its unlikely that the Portland Police Department (PPD)- obviously a big fan of covert video surveillance, which it uses as part of "the war on drugs" - would be uninterested in receiving a feed from this camera, which just happens to be pointed directly at that part of the square in which people (mostly youths and the homeless) hang out at all hours of the day and night. Easily the most notable is the "sky cam" that, from the top of a building on Broadway and Morrison, points down into the heart of historic Pioneer Square. And so, one can predict with certainty that, if and when the private sector starts installing surveillance cameras in public places, there will be more than 250 private cameras in operation in the 70-square-block area known as Downtown.Ī couple of the cameras currently in operation in Downtown Portland deserve specific mention. In heavily surveilled neighborhoods in Manhattan, the "typical" ratio of government to private-sector cameras is 10 percent. But a very large proportion of these cameras (25 or 40 percent of them) are operated by the government at one level or another (city, state or federal). Like New Haven, Connecticut, which Bill mapped out a few weeks before coming to Oregon, Downtown Portland has "few" surveillance cameras by New York City standards, i.e., "only" 61 of them. The first was chosen because of its dense concentration of office buildings and shopping centers, while the second was chosen because it is, by contrast, a poor neighborhood, but one that is slated for "renovation" (gentrification) in the near future. Based upon information and suggestions he received from his gracious and very generous hosts, Bill mapped out two locations: Downtown Portland and Old Town. Brought to the "Rose City" by the independent arts group Red76, Bill began his stay by making maps of locations of surveillance cameras installed in public places. Portland, Oregon Surveillance Cameras in Portland, Oregonīetween 11 March 2003 and 15 March 2003, Bill Brown of the New York Surveillance Camera Players was in Portland, Oregon.
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