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Cape Fear River to be lined with surveillance cameras

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Thursday, December 29, 2011

(Updated 7:55 am)

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WILMINGTON (AP) — Managers of North Carolina's state ports are looking to install surveillance gear along 22 miles of the Cape Fear River leading to Wilmington.

The StarNews of Wilmington reports that the State Ports Authority plans to mount as many as 50 cameras along the river to monitor ship traffic. The $2 million project is being funded by a grant from the Department of Homeland Security.

The observation equipment is designed to prevent and improve response to attacks from conventional, chemical, biological or nuclear weapons.

Ports authority spokeswoman Shannon Moody says the monitoring effort is in its preliminary stages and it could be years before the cameras are working.

The Port of Wilmington has been awarded 15 port security grants worth more than $11 million since 2007.

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beedev

December 29, 2011 - 8:31 am EST

The Greensboro PD has cameras monitoring pedestrian traffic on Elm Street (yeah that's right....they're monitoring people) so why not monitor Cape Fear River traffic. Wait.....let's have cameras that monitor everything.

kenpofan

December 29, 2011 - 8:45 am EST

Doing nothing wrong..you don't need to worry about cameras.

johnodrake

December 29, 2011 - 10:15 am EST

I don't worry about the cameras. I worry about the ever increasing spending by governments that have no money except what they extract from us that pay taxes.

Traveler

December 29, 2011 - 11:17 am EST

The sad truth is that some dangerous people out there don't like us.

It would be fairly easy to "attack" us by entry through some of the smaller ports like Wilmington.

Having 50 cameras being monitored by some security specialist is more cost effective use of tax dollars as opposed to having 50 human guards posted around the clock.

wctbl?

December 29, 2011 - 1:36 pm EST

johnodrake - is that you candyman?

pscisco

December 29, 2011 - 9:34 am EST

Surveillance and sanctioned violence (such as pepper spraying kids involved in legal, nonviolent protest) are two of the state's most formidable weapons for achieving discipline with the purpose of creating docile workers. As to "don't do anything wrong", the writer forgets that, with exceptions for cultural consensus re ethics and taboos, the state decides what is "wrong," which the state defines as "against the interest of the dominant class."