Berlin30 cameras now scan Kottbusser Tor for suspect movements.
Homeless people who sleep on the square are inside the frame all day.
Since 28 October, software has searched live video for movements suggesting crime, then passed flagged scenes to human monitors who can send officers.
Berlin is now the third city, after Mannheim and Hamburg, to automate surveillance of streets and squares.
How each outlet framed it
- netzpolitik.org leans critical
- frames Kottbusser Tor as a test of whether a camera system can judge ordinary street behaviour, asking if the behaviour scanner is triggered by a man urinating
Sources: netzpolitik.org