Aspects Of Big Brother Is Watching You, Long Beach Common Operating Picture?

Imagine being under surveillance every day and every second of the day. A stranger always knowing where you are and what you are doing at all times. It is really terrifying to know someone is always watching, yet many people brush off this fact. We live in America, “The Land Of Freedom”, but are we really free? Today is the future, and we have advanced in technology, all the way from robots automatically mopping your floor to having a personal assistant that assists your every need or question you have right on your phone, but is that all they do? Or do they do more than we know? Technology today is marketed as if we need it, but in reality, they’re sold to us in order to violate our privacy and help the government spy on us. George Orwell,
In the article “Big Brother Is Watching You, Long Beach: New Police Surveillance System Unveiled”, it claims, “The Long Beach Police Department has unveiled “Long Beach Common Operating Picture,” also known as “Long Beach COP,” a new system linking 400 cameras citywide-both publicly and privately owned-that produce video feeds of Long Beach’s parks, beaches, business corridors and other city sources to the police department’s communications center” (Lloyd 2012, pg 78). Long Beach Police Department is technically watching every move on the locations that were listed in the statement without the knowledge of its citizens. This real world situation is similar to that of Oceania in the novel Nineteen-Eighty Four where it reads, “The telescreen received and transmitted simultaneously. Any sound that Winston made, above the level of a very low whisper, would be picked up by it; moreover, so long as he remained within the field of vision which the metal plaque commanded, he could be seen as well as heard.” (Orwell 1949 pg.3). This compares to Long Beach by both the Long Beach Police Department and Big Brother surveilling their
He was there to protect and keep their citizens safe. “You hate him. Good. Then the time has come for you to take the last step. You must love Big Brother. It is not enough to obey him; you must love him.” (Orwell 1949 pg.282). Big Brother was more than just a dictator, he was forced to be loved and viewed as an all seeing being that knows what is best. Lauren Lloyd, author of the article “Big brother is Watching You, Long Beach: New Police Surveillance System Unveiled” added that Long Beach Press-Telegram published a statement by Police Chief Jim McDonnell where he explains, “The program is not “designed to replace people” but to “to increase efficiencies and maximize technologies in combating crime, and to promote greater community and officer safety.” (Lloyd 2012 pg.78). This statement said by McDonnell explains how their new program is meant for good intentions like citizen safety but in exchange for people's privacy. This can compare to Big Brother and this new system proposed by McDonnell by claiming it is what's best for our safety but violating resident’s