East Orange adding high-tech crime detectors
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EAST ORANGE (WABC) -- One New Jersey city is adding to its arsenal of high-tech crime-fighting gadgets. East Orange police say they're the first in the ...
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That hasn't deterred skeptics from weighing in. Dennis Kenney, a professor of criminal justice at New York's John Jay College of Criminal Justice, said the sensors can pick up so many innocuous actions - someone lining up behind an ATM user, for instance - that the system could be overloaded.

"You'd be constantly watching every ATM because you'll have so many false positives," he said. "Then to make up for it you would have to screen out so many things, and that defeats the purpose. It's a novel idea, but the technology just doesn't support it."...