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Modern Urban Policing and Surveillance

Surveillance City -- Vice Media, 2014, 15:00 -- https://youtu.be/fVDvJCeCe54

Here is a frightful manifestation of broken windows policing taken to the extreme. We see a police force largely composed of non-natives to the city set up a panoptical surveillance system in an attempt to combat crime. The city's residents, who were alienated from the decision-making process here, feel as if their community has been invaded by this new police force. Although the crime rate drops slightly, is it worth the social damage to the community?