Do You Feel Safer With Big Brother Watching?

Chattanooga is expanding its surveillance network. They already have more than 20 cameras in the downtown area along the riverfront. Now the plan is to place them in unmanned police cars.

The cars look like ordinary police cars, but inside a camera will be watching your every move. It even has night vision. And it can zoom in on activity as far as four blocks away.

Surveillance Video Leads to St. Paul Hallway Rape Conviction

Rage Ibrahim, 26, was convicted Tuesday of first-degree criminal sexual conduct for the rape of an 18-year-old woman in the hallway of a St. Paul apartment building.

A Ramsey County jury was shown a surveillance video of the Aug. 21 rape in the hallway of the St. Paul apartment building. The video shows Ibrahim, with his pants off, on top of the woman. At one point, Ibrahim tries to drag the woman back into the apartment where they had been drinking.

Surveillance, a Watchword For Our Times

Meet the friendly new face of surveillance culture.

It's called FaceFinder, and since launching this summer, the smart sculpture resembling a gargantuan alarm clock has functioned like a high-tech photo booth in a courtyard off Sunset and Vine. Sheathed in aluminum and fronted by a glass-shelled video monitor screen, FaceFinder scans its target area outside Borders Bookstore, fixes upon a subject, captures his or her image with a camera concealed in its blob-like "ear," then magnifies every facial twitch at about six times normal size on a 5-foot video screen.

Woman Pulls for Tougher Stalking Law

It's been 10 years of worry and wonder for 47-year-old stalking victim and Marlboro resident Karen.

In ebbs and flows over the decade, she said she's received close to 1,000 harassing phone calls. She's had a hedge cut down near her front door, a screen slashed and a screw driven into a car tire. Despite changing her address and telephone numbers numerous times, she has had at times two dozen hang-ups, heavy breathing or Spanish-speaking people call her in a single day, she said.

Surveillance Video Released from Sherman Grocery Store Robbery

Sherman Police are releasing surveillance video from a robbery at Albertson’s Supermarket on December 15th when the suspect walked in to the grocery store holding a gun and demanded cash.

The video shows the man wearing a gray, hooded sweatshirt walking up to a register, then carrying the cash drawer. At that point he sets the drawer down, takes the cash, and then tries to leave the store.

Surveillance Tape Catches Credit Card Thieves

Police are looking for two men and a woman who used stolen credit cards to buy beer, cigarettes and health food items in separate incidents at stores in Franklin, Danville and Avon, police said.

A man bought more than $500 worth of video games and other items at the Wal-Mart store in Franklin. An accomplice, a heavy-set man in glasses, and the man who used the card, stand poised in a race against time with the unsuspecting victim.