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Begging Your Trust in Africa
The syntax is tortured, the grammar mutilated, but the message - sent by snail mail, telex, fax, or e-mail - is coherent: an African bigwig or his heirs wish to transfer funds amassed in years of graft and venality to a safe bank account in the West. ...

...open door to your home wireless?
This is not some new fangled techno-speak, it is a real tool to be used for the protection of your wireless internet network and LAN. African American SMBs have to realize that if your Internet connection is on 24/7 then your network, and it is a network ...

The Fabric of Economic Trust
Economy is called the dismal science because it pretends to be one, disguising its uncertainties and shifting fashions with mathematical formulae. Economy describes the aggregate behaviour of humans and, in this restricted sense, it is a branch of ...




A Look at Wireless Security Cameras
 
If you need to partially conceal your cameras from view, wireless security cameras are the way to go. Locations such as banks use a combination of wireless and wired, visible and hidden cameras to intimidate potential robbers, but continue photographing them even if they disable the wired cameras.

Las Vegas casinos do the same. Look around you the next time you enter a casino or a bank. There are cameras evident and these are for “publicity” purposes. That is, they are there to intimidate a potential robber or petty thief from doing anything, knowing that their actions are being recorded. The owners of these establishments want you to see these cameras and they want you to think twice about doing anything naughty in their places of business.

Then there are the hidden cameras. Almost always wireless so they can be placed anywhere, they photograph through small holes in the walls or ceilings, or from behind specially designed ordinary devices you’d expect to find in the location. Wireless security cameras are the ones that provide information to the police about who may have committed some crime after they disabled the visible systems.

Wireless cameras can be battery operated. That is, they are used to monitor the activities of people for a limited amount of time. Their advantage is that they can be placed in a variety of easily concealed


positions, much more so than a camera that requires a wire to be connected to both its power source and a recording device.

Lately, these cameras have been built into clocks, children’s toys and other common household devices and have been nicknamed “nanny-cams.” They came into more popular use to catch babysitters and nanny’s who watch over precious youngsters who may not be talking yet. Horrible abuse sometimes occurs when unbalanced adults are left in charge of toddlers who can’t speak.

Concerned parents started using these devices to record the actions of the adult in charge while they were gone. Then the couple could play back the tapes and see what went on in their absence. Some of these tapes were so outrageously awful in what they captured on videotape that they led to prosecution of the adult offender and oftentimes ended up on national tabloid TV shows. Since then they have become a built-in, cleverly concealed device that’s quite often found in homes where young children are being watched by hired help. Security Cameras Info provides detailed information about home, wireless, hidden, fake, and wholesale security cameras, as well as outdoor, remote, business, and other security camera systems. Security Cameras Info is the sister site of Metal Detectors Web.




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Walker, Barrett trade jabs over crime statistics
Herald Times Reporter
Scott Walker and his recall challenger, Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett, traded jabs Thursday over a media report that questions whether Milwaukee police misrepresented crime statistics. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel found at least 500 cases in which ...
Barrett: Walker is Attacking Cops By Questioning Milwaukee Crime StatsPatch.com
Barrett insists Milwaukee crime down; approves FBI audit of MPD crime dataToday's TMJ4
MPD's crime numbers become an issue in gubernatorial campaignFOX6Now.com Milwaukee
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The Age

Waterfront corruption no surprise, says expert
ABC Online
By business editor Peter Ryan The depth of organised crime on Australia's waterfront should come as no surprise, according to the global anti-corruption watchdog. The Federal Government has announced a crackdown on what it has described as "cancerous" ...
Union says new docks crime crackdown is unfair on wharfiesThe Australian
Australia cracks down on waterfront crimeNews24
Rampant corruption, crime gangs, arms smuggling, drugsThe Age
Brisbane Times -Herald Sun
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Trinidad crime reporter, TV cameraman charged with holding up liquor store ...
Washington Post
PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad — A reporter who led crime coverage for a Trinidad & Tobago newspaper and a TV news cameraman are being accused of robbing a liquor store and getting in a shootout with police. Authorities say Trinidad Express reporter Akile ...

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College examined over crime reporting
Boston.com
State auditors are investigating allegations that Roxbury Community College has not accurately reported serious crimes on campus, as well as a separate claim of wrongdoing involving the Reggie Lewis Track and Athletic Center.

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CBS Local

Detroit's crime problem is worse than we know
WDIV Detroit
This week was another of the City of Detroit trying to give us all reason to believe the crime problem is somehow on the cusp of a solution. Detroit Police Chief Ralph Godbee held two news conferences I attended this week where he attempted to sell ...
Detroit clergy launch prayer walks, youth rallies to counteract crimeDetroit Free Press
Detroit Police Restructuring Necessary to Curb CrimeHuffington Post (blog)
Night Walks Planned to Help Deter CrimeMyFox Detroit
CBS Local -my.hsj.org
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