While municipalities and local police expand their urban televigilance networks to pursue crime, drug trafficking gangs have replicated the strategy, implementing illegal camera circuits in public space to monitor police movements and consolidate strict territorial control. This phenomenon, which has been named in police operations as the deployment of "narcocameras", has transformed public lighting poles and telecommunications cables into infor…
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While municipalities and local police expand their urban televigilance networks to pursue crime, drug trafficking gangs have replicated the strategy, implementing illegal camera circuits in public space to monitor police movements and consolidate strict territorial control. This phenomenon, which has been named in police operations as the deployment of "narcocameras", has transformed public lighting poles and telecommunications cables into infor…