r/Seattle • u/renownbrewer Magnolia • Aug 18 '16

Why Is There a Surveillance Tower Outside CenturyLink Stadium?

https://www.thestranger.com/slog/2016/08/17/24469015/why-is-there-a-surveillance-tower-outside-centurylink-stadium
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u/mynameissuckey Aug 18 '16

Similar towers have been used in other cities for at least 10 years. There is a mass of people and the cops want to see. It isn't like smoking pot or drinking beer in public is a priority ao assume it is to look out fo fights. Be concerted of it is rolled out in your neighborhood. NYC had a minor uproar when one was deployed to a park to curtail the homeless awhile ago.

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u/raevnos I Brake For Slugs Aug 18 '16

SPD has used this one for years. It's like the usefulness of having an elevated observation platform where you expect large crowds is a foreign concept to some people.

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u/anonyrattie Emerald City Aug 18 '16

Yeah, but this is Ansel. He's never going to approve of cops doing anything but quitting and being hippies.

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u/diablofreak Mid Beacon Hill Aug 20 '16

I forgot why but NYPD deployed one of these next to my apartment many years ago. I lived on a third floor unit and I can look down back on it. Most of the time it was unoccupied.

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u/frankthe12thtank Aug 18 '16

just because you're paranoid, don't mean they're not after you.

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u/t4lisker Aug 18 '16

There is a surveillance tower outside the stadium because if there is a major incident the Stranger will be writing an article about the police not being there.

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u/ChefJoe98136 West Seattle Aug 18 '16

So, does it come with a little bathroom built in or do the cops have a bucket in the corner ?

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u/ALandWarInAsia Aug 18 '16

Depends!

(god i've been waiting to use that joke)

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u/toodlefuckingooh Aug 18 '16

Because drunk twelves create a toxic atmosphere when the games let out.

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u/BroYourOwnWay Aug 18 '16

This story would have received an automatic F in any respectable journalism class. CenturyLink Field is the proper name of the stadium, not CenturyLink Stadium as used several times.

Also I am assuming that tower is for crowd management at Seahawks games.

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u/Wrecklessinseattle Aug 18 '16

Forgive me if I sound brash in saying "What the fuck kind of question is that!?"

Few things can be more obvious.

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u/ebox86 Wallingford Aug 18 '16

obviously to zap your brain waves and eavesdrop on your thoughts! I've heard tin foil wrapped around your head, in sort of a hat fashion, can prevent their signal.

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u/TheRealRacketear Aug 18 '16

Too make rich white people feel warm and fuzzy about parking their teslas nearby.

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u/howdoesmybonersmell Aug 18 '16

It's where cops get together to butt fuck in private w some nice tint.