Steve Duin: Portland police re-dedicate themselves to video surveillance [View all]

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...This line was dedicated to something else altogether. "Police surveillance. It will pick up signals from police-operated aircraft. Which are sorta like manned drones."

Merritt and McClure have been together for 20 years and married for the last seven, most of which they spent abroad while McClure was managing Peace Corps operations in Botswana and Morocco.

For all they knew, this broadband operation had already been vetted in council sessions, neighborhood meetings and newspaper columns. "We've been out of the loop," Merritt conceded.

"But what are we surveilling?"

Whatever strikes the fancy of Portland police, it turns out. And once those fiber-optic connections are completed at the Portland Building, the bureau will be able to stream the video to anyone who wants it.

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