Jessica Alfieri
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NYC Protects You
Two City measures to control watch protect you:
*The first is the subway-wide surveillance plan that was designed as a crucial part of a “program to thwart terrorist attacks on the region’s transportation network.”
Plans for the surveillance system were announced in August 2005, when officials said that they expected to have it up and running in three years. The system, which is being built by the defense contractor Lockheed Martin, is to include at least 1,000 surveillance cameras and 3,000 motion sensors, mostly concentrated at major travel hubs and high-volume stations, like Grand Central Terminal, as well as in tunnels and other areas.
But don’t worry about the surveillance for now. It’s been delayed indefinitely by the discovery of aging fiber-obtics in Brooklyn and Queens. Instead, on to your health:
The New York City health department plans to announce on Thursday an ambitious three-year effort to give an H.I.V. test to every adult living in the Bronx.
Every adult in the Bronx? That’s 830,000 tests in three years. The tests will still only be administered to the willing, which means, undoubtedly, that not every adult in the Bronx will be tested, but the “peer pressure” to test will supposedly be stronger. And the city will absorb the $12 per test cost. Assuming that half the population is willing, we’re looking at $4,980,000. No problem, turnstile fines can fund it.
*spray paint camera found near the door to NYU’s Weinstein dorm.
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