{"id":1653,"date":"2019-12-08T20:11:38","date_gmt":"2019-12-08T20:11:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/9thstreetjournal.org\/?page_id=1653"},"modified":"2019-12-08T20:11:38","modified_gmt":"2019-12-08T20:11:38","slug":"video-surveillance-the-hidden-eye-of-the-justice-system","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/9thstreetjournal.org\/video-surveillance-the-hidden-eye-of-the-justice-system\/","title":{"rendered":"Video surveillance: the hidden eye of the justice system"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Video cameras captured two scenes from the convenience store on Alston Avenue in East Durham on the night of Jan. 9, 2018.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In one, a little boy walks inside, his eyes on the prize. He flashes a mischievous smile, eager to get his hands on a Hostess \u201cDonette\u201d packet stacked neatly a few steps away.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In the other scene, from outside the store, Noe Ruiz and Jerone Powell get into a fight. Powell exits with a stab wound, leaving Ruiz with a court date.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The two scenes captured by the store\u2019s video system show how cameras have become unblinking spectators. They can capture, with incredible levels of detail, the banal routine of a convenience store just as they can reveal the crimes that occasionally occur there.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Swathi Ramprasad, a reporter for The 9th Street Journal, examined the recordings from the Alston Avenue store and explored the pros and cons of our ubiquitous surveillance in <a href=\"https:\/\/9thstreetjournal.org\/2019\/12\/04\/video-surveillance-the-hidden-eye-of-the-justice-system\/\">this report<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Video cameras captured two scenes from the convenience store on Alston Avenue in East Durham on the night of Jan. 9, 2018.\u00a0 In one, a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1645,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.3 - 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