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I for one welcome our watchful WSP overlords; here's an upbeat report from KING-5 on our bright future of total surveillance everywhere, all the time:Graffiti vandals spotted by WSP patrol planeGraffiti taggers usually wear dark clothing and commit their crime in the shadows at night. But now they're finding out that darkness no longer protects them because a watchful eye in the sky.Late Saturday night, a pedestrian near Interstate 5 in Tumwater called 911 to report a graffiti tagger spray-painting along the fence line. Trooper Jonathan Ames, the tactical flight officer operating the infrared camera in Washington State Patrol's fixed-wing aircraft, says, "I could see his hand moving around in circles and I determined this person was indeed doing some vandalism...continue to full post

Full post as published by Arbitrary and Capricious on March 24, 2009 (boomark / email).