{"id":16299,"date":"2016-06-15T21:00:13","date_gmt":"2016-06-16T02:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hcstx.org\/?p=16299"},"modified":"2016-06-15T21:00:13","modified_gmt":"2016-06-16T02:00:13","slug":"surveillance-state-the-olympics-are-turning-rio-into-a-police-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/2016\/06\/15\/surveillance-state-the-olympics-are-turning-rio-into-a-police-state\/","title":{"rendered":"Surveillance State: The Olympics are Turning Rio into a Police State"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Brazil\"<\/h4>\n

The air is electric in Rio right now, and not just because of the surveillance cameras scattered all around the city<\/strong><\/h4>\n

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Rio\u2019s hundreds of surveillance cameras<\/a> are easy to view on the 85 square meter display<\/a> in the panopticon-style Center for Integrated Command and Control<\/a> or the equally huge<\/a> screen in the Operations Center of Rio<\/a>.<\/p>\n

If you glance at these camera streams at the right time, you\u2019ll see a jeep or two full of military police officers with machine guns, the barrels sticking out of the windows as they cruise by.<\/p>\n

You might see police arrest demonstrators protesting what many<\/a> are calling a coup<\/a> against Pres. Dilma Rousseff. Or, you might catch the military or policekilling black youth<\/a> in a favela, or storming one of the dozens of secondary schools currently occupied<\/a> by student activists who want improvements<\/a> to Brazil\u2019s underfunded educational system.<\/p>\n

This is the host of the rapidly approaching 2016 Summer Olympics. Brazilians don\u2019t seem very excited about it\u200a\u2014\u200aunderstandable given the current political situation and the Games\u2019 cost.<\/p>\n

Lawmakers have used Brazil\u2019s recent series of mega-events to justify huge investments in security technology. But the tools the police and military now possess aren\u2019t temporary<\/a>. They are lasting legacies. And the combination of this technology, a new hawkish government, and ongoing human rights abuses by the military and law enforcement in Brazil spells disaster.<\/p>\n

The CICC<\/a> is an intelligence center cooperatively run by various Brazilian agencies<\/a>, including the police and military, and it can access streams from at least 3200<\/a> mobile and stationary surveillance cameras. COR, a city-run center<\/a>, provides data to police from 560 cameras. Despite these all-seeing eyes and the millions invested<\/a> in security by state and federal governments in Brazil, security concerns<\/a> for the Olympics persist.<\/p>\n

Read the Remainder at War is Boring<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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