Walton County's finest doin' their job, buzzin' the beach Saturday.
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Walton County's finest doin' their job, buzzin' the beach Saturday.
Awesomeness!!!!
When they hit the siren beach offenders jump right outta their bathing suits - a ticket would be overkill.Now Kurt, hard to write a ticket from a helicopter.
Read about this great idea copied from another forum.
Here’s an idea I heard from a military guy I think is brilliant. Military concept of “constant stare”. Like the casinos have but on a larger scale. Have 360 deg day/night IR cameras every half mile (52 locations?) or whatever it takes to cover the 26 miles on 50 foot or however high towers on the right of way or public accesses that fed video back to a command post monitored and recorded 24/7/365 by one or two people with software to ID dogs, people too far out in the water, sand pits, fireworks, turtles, outline public and private property boundaries, etc. A faction of the employees and cost needed to do a better job, keeps Walton vehicles off private property unless needed, and on the road for quicker response. Provide public wifi service for a fee to help pay for it. Put the video on the internet like Live Webcam - Seagrove Beach SkyCam | SoWal.com. For much less [than multiple tax payer paid customary-use lawsuits, a surplus helicopter and pilots ($500/hour?)], or an army of code enforcement (at what $40K with benefits a year each?) you could have “constant stare”.
I agree with the author it would probably be cheaper and more effective than Walton's air force and army of TDC, Code non-Enforcement, Sheriff, Fire Dept, Life Guard vehicles driving up and down private property. If the Sheriff's patrolled the county streets the same amount they do private beach property Walton would have far fewer traffic problems. A Walton Sheriff ran over a woman a few years back. I for one want Walton vehicles off my beachfront property unless there is probable cause to enforce the law. If there is probable cause Walton can drive on 30A or 98 much faster and safer than on the sand to the 50 public beach accesses or cross private property on foot to investigate. Sheriff has done this several times in the past to access the beach when we have called about trespassers crossing our private property from the road to access our beachfront property.
Here’s an idea I heard from a military guy I think is brilliant. Military concept of “constant stare”. Like the casinos have but on a larger scale. Have 360 deg day/night IR cameras every half mile (52 locations?) or whatever it takes to cover the 26 miles on 50 foot or however high towers on the right of way or public accesses that fed video back to a command post monitored and recorded 24/7/365 by one or two people with software to ID dogs, people too far out in the water, sand pits, fireworks, turtles, outline public and private property boundaries, etc. A faction of the employees and cost needed to do a better job, keeps Walton vehicles off private property unless needed, and on the road for quicker response. Provide public wifi service for a fee to help pay for it. Put the video on the internet like Live Webcam - Seagrove Beach SkyCam | SoWal.com. For much less [than multiple tax payer paid customary-use lawsuits, a surplus helicopter and pilots ($500/hour?)], or an army of code enforcement (at what $40K with benefits a year each?) you could have “constant stare”.
I agree with the author it would probably be cheaper and more effective than Walton's air force and army of TDC, Code non-Enforcement, Sheriff, Fire Dept, Life Guard vehicles driving up and down private property. If the Sheriff's patrolled the county streets the same amount they do private beach property Walton would have far fewer traffic problems. A Walton Sheriff ran over a woman a few years back. I for one want Walton vehicles off my beachfront property unless there is probable cause to enforce the law. If there is probable cause Walton can drive on 30A or 98 much faster and safer than on the sand to the 50 public beach accesses or cross private property on foot to investigate. Sheriff has done this several times in the past to access the beach when we have called about trespassers crossing our private property from the road to access our beachfront property.
And when the chopper is out of sight they jump right back in their suit and the ocean.
I like beachcams and they are wide angle and don't invade privacy. Your post is the furthest thing from the beach life you could come up with. Not a place I would want to live.
Jim, you sound paranoid. How would this invade your privacy? If you are walking on the 30A bike path or a beach by the Gulf there is no privacy. You are in the public domain. What would a law enforcement helicopter see (and record like with police body cams?) that a beach camera wouldn’t? What is your concept of “Constant Stare”?
Did you click the SoWal beach cam links that are viewing and could be recording what you do today? Much less the probably 1,000s of private video cameras pointed from private beachfront properties recording what you do today? Like the 6 cameras on our property.
If security cameras worry you I’m not sure there is any place you would want to live. Just don’t litter, have an unleashed dog on the beach, leave your small children unsupervised for hours at a time, wade too far out into the rip-tide on a double red flag beach, don’t cross private property from 30A to access the beach, everything you could see from a $500 an hour helicopter; but all at one time, in one place, and recorded for evidence. Maybe the record for evidence is what you object to? A helicopter or an army of Walton vehicles and employees driving up and down 20 miles of private beachfront can’t do that; for probably a fraction of the cost of a “Constant Stare”.
