NJT is listening to you

Surveillance on light rail vehicles.
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philipmartin wrote:Surveillance on light rail vehicles.
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If you're talking loud enough that a microphone can pick up your voice, everyone around you can probably hear you as well.

I'm a big HBLR fan and think its done great things for the State, but I would agree that on weekends it can get a little dicey in and around Newport both on and off the vehicle. In a handful of times, I've witnessed folks begging on the platform for tickets or change, fights amongst teens (boys and girls), pickpocket attempts, and the usual madness you get when 16 y/o boys ride the trains back and forth without any real purpose.

What I'm saying, anything they can do to contribute to improving the ride, I'm for.

Hawaiitiki wrote:
What I'm saying, anything they can do to contribute to improving the ride, I'm for.

I agree.

I'd like to hear from regular riders of this line on whether or not the crime problem is bad enough to justify use of this system.

Here's an article. Obviously NJT isn't interested in innocent conversations, and lacks the ability to listen to each one of them. At last Tuesday's board of directors meeting, a comment was made that "motorists are not recorded when they say somethibng in their automobiles. They have an absolute expectation of privacy and the courts support them every time." That's not exactly true. If an NJ state trooper pulls you over, chances are that he is audio taping at least part of the conversation, and he does not warn you. I know that from personal experience.

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philipmartin wrote:Here's an article. Obviously NJT isn't interested in innocent conversations, and lacks the ability to listen to each one of them. At last Tuesday's board of directors meeting, a comment was made that "motorists are not recorded when they say somethibng in their automobiles. They have an absolute expectation of privacy and the courts support them every time." That's not exactly true. If an NJ state trooper pulls you over, chances are that he is audio taping at least part of the conversation, and he does not warn you. I know that from personal experience.

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Quite so, there is an absolute expectation of privacy within one's home, the but the US Supreme Court many years ago, and since expanded, determined that the expectation of privacy in an automobile is significantly less than that in one's home. Moreover, the expectation of privacy is minimal in a public transit vehicle.