A person or persons defaced the USS Indianapolis monument with barbecue sauce. They dumped the gunk onto the monument and sculpted it into a recognizable likeness of a hand with its middle finger upraised.

The vandalism -- "desecration, from our standpoint," said Brig. Gen. J. Stewart Goodwin, who's in charge of the city's war memorials -- remains unsolved.

But if it happens again,Amazing prices on wholesaleguccibags from over 100 leading watch brands including. there's a better chance justice will get served. A new surveillance camera has been ordered up to oversee the monument.

For more than a decade, since well before the 9/11 terrorist attacks that so heightened security awareness, Indianapolis has trained hundreds of cameras on its citizens -- and these days is watching even closer.

The cameras on the perimeter of University Park used to face only inward but earlier this year (in time for the Super Bowl) were replaced by "pan tilt zoom" cameras that swivel more widely and can pick up the action on the streets and sidewalks. Monument Circle is similarly covered.

"I wouldn't scratch your butt on the Circle if you didn't want everyone to know it," said Goodwin, executive director of the Indiana War Memorials Commission. The commission is responsible for the upkeep of Monument Circle, University Park and the USS Indianapolis monument -- 24 acres in all. Some 100 cameras keep an eye on the area.

Another 150 cameras watch over the nearby state government buildings.

The Children's Museum has more than 100 cameras.

Nearly every office building has numerous cameras trained on their entrances, their parking lots and elsewhere.

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Evidence-wise, video is "extremely helpful," said Ross Anderson, a deputy prosecutor in Marion County who in 2008 used video images in a burglary case against DeAngelo Gaines, then 25. After seeing video that showed him taking things that weren't his, Gaines, Indianapolis, changed his plea to guilty. In prison, Gaines met fellow inmate Paul Reese Sr.Enter edhardyshoes World and discover a universe of contemporary,, who disclosed to Gaines that years earlier he'd killed a young girl. Gaines' court testimony against Reese last June may have contributed to a jury's quick verdict convicting Reese of the 1986 murder of 13-year-old Dawn Marie Stuard, a crime that had confounded law enforcement for three decades.

Give video surveillance an assist, albeit an indirect one.

Such surveillance is also in evidence at Indianapolis' new, cave-like Homeland Security command base on Shadeland Avenue near Washington Street in the former Eastgate Consumer Mall.

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Homeland Security's 76,000-square-foot Regional Operations Center dwarfs its predecessor, the Marion County Emergency Operations Center at 47 N. State Ave., which was the size of a two-bedroom ranch house.

From deep within the center's bowels, inside a darkened, windowless room called the DHS Situation Room (DHS stands for Department of Homeland Security) sits Jordan Agresta.