Mobil Prison Guard Towers Coming to a Wal-Mart Near You

[lib2DaBone]

Run time: 10:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVQRMrlQ95U   Posted on YouTube: December 23, 2010 By YouTube Member: peltecs Views on YouTube: 3876   Posted on DU: December 24, 2010 By DU Member: lib2DaBone Views on DU: 3343

 

[Submariner]

1. I travel around Puerto Rico on business

and these watch towers are in ALL the shopping Malls. Usually 2 to 4 in a Walmart sized parking lot. They are permanent towers though, not a portable like the vid shows.

We've got the gated communities already. Next up as overpopulation and crime strain the system will be the barred windows and doors like the barrios and these towers.

Police State.

[JHB]

2. Paid for by a Recovery Act grant.

"Let's not hire hire a of deputies, let's just get a new toy, like this deluxe mobile security guard booth. beats having to get my ass out in the weather, and best of all the guys in the next county don't have one, and won't they be green with envy!"

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[Roy Rolling]

4. Homeland Security

You never know when a terrorist could be shoplifiting and fall into the trap :sarcasm:

As bad as this is, a local story said a man was convicted of selling counterfeit NFL jerseys, and he was arrested by agents from the Department of Homeland Security. Again, you never know when a terrorist can be creating havoc by being disguised as Drew Brees in a counterfeit NFL jersey. :sarcasm:

[liberal N proud]

5. Disney uses these in all their parking lots

I never associated them with prisons. It is protection on a dark night.

It's FOX sNews

[Boudica the Lyoness]

6. Americans listen up

First of all you let your police treat you disrespectfully then you let your government look inside your underwear and feel your genitals and breasts. And willingly let them look at your naked bodies when all you wanted to do was to travel within your own borders.

That's like a girl letting a teenage boy get to second base (or is it third). The US government knows now it can go 'all the way' with you.

LOOK OUT!

[Charleston Chew]

7. Alex Jones, Prison Planet

That's where this crap belongs.

[Supply Side Jesus]

9. Alex is going to be pissed

He totally got outscooped by FOX!

[teknomanzer]

16. I don't think this is a Fox story...

its a group of clips edited together.

[nyc 4 Biden]

8. these are all over nyc. n/t

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jag9889/3066091087/

http://uptowncollective.com/2010/02/23/inwoodsafety-takes-on-the-streets-of-inwoodwashington-heights/

[JHB]

19. Oh, yeah. Saw one at one of the "Ground Zero mosque" FOX-fed protests.

I was just passing by a few hours before it got started, but the cops had one of these parked on-site.

[JDPriestly]

10. January 20, what year?

This is quite old or else science fiction about the future.

Anyway, this is a local police activity which needs to be taken up with the city council. The video is ridiculous.

[Supply Side Jesus]

11. but it's on Fox News!!!!!

so it must be true!

[TalkingDog]

23. Actually it's 2010. I recently saw it moved to one of the stores he mentioned.

I live about 20 miles from Hickory.

[Charleston Chew]

12. the bottom line

Large shopping center parking lots are dangerous. This sort of thing would deter robberies and assault. Besides all that, what are you people doing at Walmart anyways?

[Charleston Chew]

13. WAL-MART: The High Cost of Low Price

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=385x538146

[L0oniX]

14. They found out I am on DU and now there's one across the street from my home.

:evilgrin:

[Hubert Flottz]

15. If it's parked at Wal-Mart...

It sure as hell ain't the fashion police.

[sulphurdunn]

17. The local police departments

apply for federal grants to buy this sort of stuff. It's free to them. It's got less to do with a police state than with spending tax dollars on homeland security contractors. You should buy their stock. They're the new growth industries sucking at the public tit, just behind Wall Street and the Pentagon, and they give about the same bang for the buck. No pun intended. :smoke:

[jonthebru]

20. Concur

Actually it does not need to be manned. The surveillance cameras can send their signals over wireless to a security center. Also the evil doers who steal Womens' purses and break into cars will see it and move on. I would suggest also that Walmart had to report a crime or two and then the Police set the tower in that location. Usually private security is used on private property, here a local jurisdiction has set it up in a private parking lot.
It is a deterrent, an expensive deterrent.
I am sure the brochure for this and other devices like it have crossed the desk of every Police Chief and procurement officer across the US and all over the World. And they had one set up at every security convention held for the last several years. You can bet that the company has a staff set up to complete the grant requests for any prospective purchaser. All Republicans I'll bet; sucking the teat of the Federal Government under the guise of "Homeland" Security.
It would be stupid to put a Police officer up there at $60 K a year when a private guard can move through the parking lot for 25 or 30K a year.

[Francisco]

18. I live in South Texas and this is nothing new to us..

almost every shopping center has these police towers. Living near the border there are a lot of cars being stolen so I guess this is a way to stop that. I don't mind it too much.

[Arctic Dave]

21. I'm glad faux snooz is playing this shit.

Maybe now the drones will wake up to what the douche bag bush started.

[costahawk1987]

22. Well...if you've got nothing yo worry about

You won't mind the soon-to-be announced full-body cavity searches either. We wouldn't want anybody sticking a free candy bar anywhere.

[Mafia Killer]

24. humpty dumpty

I'd hate to be the guy in one of these....
knock out one of the outriggers or slice a hydrolic line.......

or a well placed molotov.

fukn Fox News watching morons.......
at least the plastic and duct tape protection against "Terrrerist"
was cheap.

how many Tax dollars are being spent here to protect a "Business"

but then again.....I'm sure Walmart pays more than their fair share of Taxes.

[MrModerate]

25. Kind of a dumb technology (easily taken down in situations of "civic unrest")

And perhaps a foolish use of funds. As another poster has said, they'd have done better to hire a few more cops. It appears that the small-town cops who've got these things haven't quite figured out what to do with them. Mall parking lots, temporary events like county fairs, and transit hubs with maybe an after-hours assault problem. Those uses make sense.

But the jackbooted thugs undertone of the video is over the top.