3) Living in subsidized housing shouldn’t mean you’re more surveilled. @gizmodo.com @toddfeathers.bsky.social

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If you're a reporter in D.C. interested in doing a similar analysis, I may have some data for you.

If your local police or sheriff's department uses Fusus, you can request an audit log to see where and when cops are surveilling your city. Here's the request I sent:

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This story is based on Fusus audit logs we obtained from TPD through a public records request. Here's an excerpt of the Toledo log:

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Here's a map showing the 12 subsidized housing complexes and where crime occurred from Jan 1 - Oct 8, 2024.

Red dots are homicides
Purple dots are reports of shootings (mostly Shotspotter alerts)
Orange dots are other crimes.

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Meanwhile, residents of McClinton Nunn and other complexes say that sometimes they have to wait 15 minutes for police to respond to shootings and that when they report other crimes, police don't respond at all.

“You can watch all you want, but you gotta do something,” one resident said.

During September 2024, only two crimes were reported within half a mile of McClinton Nunn Homes. But TPD officers streamed 150 hours of live footage across 11 different days from just the four cameras watching over the developments’ playgrounds.

Take the playgrounds at the McClinton Nunn Homes, where thousand dollar camera systems watch over swing sets with no swings.

That surveillance was disproportionate to the amount of crime near the complexes.

And contrary to police claims that the cameras would only be activated in emergencies, we found TPD officers often watched feeds from the complexes for hours on end at times when no crimes were reported in the area.

We obtained audit log data showing that Toledo police spent more than 18,000 hours during a nine-month period watching live footage from the subsidized housing developments—more than twice as much time as they spent watching all the other Fusus-enabled cameras combined.

There are more than 700 Fusus-enabled cameras in Toledo. Some are owned by the city and mounted on government buildings or intersections. Others watch over gas stations, convenience stores, and motels.

275 of the cameras are on the properties of 12 subsidized, low-income housing developments.