I've lived in Fort Worth, TX for about a year. I was already aware of the existence of these devices. I had no clue that my local PD was spending such an insane amount of money on surveillance. It's also worth mentioning that our population is only 792K. I've lived in Texas most of life and in general I think the people here are great. However, Texans do have a tendency to blindly support anything the Military and Po…
> It's also worth mentioning that our population is only 792K. Most of the homeland security money funding surveillance is likely tied to DFW being along a major drug distribution corridor coming up from Mexico, and has nothing to do with the local population.
and what happens when you're a department that takes in $x million in federal funds but you aren't raking in as many criminals as projected (or you rake them in, and there aren't any left) ? Have to make use of that budget somehow, or else you'll lose all your cool high-tech toys. I know, let's point the surveillance at people not suspected of a crime. We can certainly find criminals if we search hard enough, and thanks to Parallel Construction, they never even know how we found them.