New York has big security plans:
The Police Department is working on a plan to track every vehicle that enters Manhattan to strengthen the city’s guard against a potential terror attack, the department’s chief spokesman said.
The proposal — called Operation Sentinel — relies on integrating layers of technologies, some that are still being perfected. It calls for photographing, and scanning the license plates of, cars and trucks at all bridges and tunnels and using sensors to detect the presence of radioactivity.
Data on each vehicle — its time-stamped image, license plate imprint and radiological signature — would be sent to a command center in Lower Manhattan, where it would be indexed and stored for at least a month as part of a broad security plan that emphasizes protecting the city’s financial district, the spokesman, Paul J. Browne, said. If it were not linked to a suspicious vehicle or a law enforcement investigation, it would be eliminated, he said.
Not sure how much of this stuff goes on already, so no point freaking out. Not to mention, it doesn’t matter anyway, and the Republicans will just chant “IF YOU AREN’T DOING ANYTHING WRONG, YOU DON’T HAVE ANYTHING TO WORRY ABOUT,” while the Democrats are too afraid of being portrayed as soft on terror and weak on security to say anything. So what the hell is the point of even fighting it anymore?
Second, I just don’t see how this improves security. All it seems to do is to help law enforcement AFTER the fact establish who or what did whatever. I am just so weary of all the terror hysteria.