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For generations, crime writers could send a killer into the night with little more than gloves, a disguise and a getaway car. Today, the fictional villain must also leave the phone behind, hide the license plate, and dodge doorbell cameras, Teslas and an expanding web of digital surveillance.<\/p>\n

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The cameras and data trails helping police solve real crimes have created a new complication for authors of mysteries and thrillers: How do you write a crime story in which the perpetrator can plausibly get away?<\/p>\n

Virtually anywhere a person goes, digital eyes watch. Doorbell cameras capture people on sidewalks. License plate cameras track drivers. Closed-circuit TV records patrons inside and outside stores. Bay Area parking lots and roads are full of Teslas, Waymos and delivery robots equipped with cameras that capture their surroundings. Law enforcement drones add eyes in the sky.<\/p>\n

For police, this panopticon is a treasure trove. Often, the answer to \u201cwhodunit?\u201d is right there on the video.<\/p>\n

\u201cCrimes are being solved in real time,\u201d said San Jose Police Department Lt. Todd Jennings, who oversees a special unit with access to images from thousands of cameras throughout the city.<\/p>\n

People committing crimes may now run a surveillance gauntlet to and from the scene, leaving a digital trail that can identify them much like fingerprints.<\/p>\n

In her latest book, \u201cToo Old for This,\u201d bestselling Bay Area thriller writer Samantha Downing has Lottie Jones, a 75-year-old serial killer, cover her license plate to avoid tracking by automated license plate cameras that have proliferated across the U.S.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen she\u2019s going to go do something bad, she leaves her phone \u2014 she has a little note: \u2018Leave phone,’\u201d Downing said. \u201cBecause she\u2019s 75 and she forgets.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Writers who tell tales without accounting for the omnipresence of digital eyes and data trails do so at their peril.<\/p>\n

\u201cReaders will not let you get away with it,\u201d said Downing, of Novato.\u00a0\u201cIf you\u2019re writing a story that has a murder mystery, you have to consider all that. I\u00a0try to use it to my advantage. It would be easier if it didn\u2019t exist.\u201d<\/p>\n

Civil-liberties advocates warn that collecting, retaining and sharing images and data about people not suspected of crimes creates opportunities for misuse, including targeting immigrants and perceived political opponents.\u00a0 The Washington Post this month reported that at least 50 officers across the U.S. have been accused by authorities of improperly using license plate camera systems, including to stalk women.<\/p>\n

Despite those worries, cameras in doorbells, vehicles and buildings continue to multiply. Police in San Jose and other cities can tap networks of cameras aimed at public spaces, while departments throughout the region routinely request footage from residents and businesses.<\/p>\n

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Law enforcement agencies can also obtain digital information through search warrants, court orders, subpoenas and emergency requests to technology companies. Police can purchase some location information from data brokers. Depending on the source and legal process, the evidence can include phone-location data, internet search histories and chatbot prompts.<\/p>\n

Detective fiction author Mark Coggins, formerly a software engineer and executive at Netscape, Hewlett-Packard, Mozilla and other Silicon Valley technology companies, sets most of his books in the valley. His private-eye protagonist, August Riordan, sometimes needs to travel incognito by road.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have him borrow license plates from somebody else and put them on his car, and\/or smear mud on the license plate to obscure numbers so they can\u2019t be read by a (license-plate) reader or CCTV cameras,\u201d Coggins said.<\/p>\n

Fiction authors can also weaponize technology. In one book, Coggins had \u201cthis tech bro killing another tech bro and framing a third party for the murder using AI to create phony footage.\u201d The plot centered on smart glasses capable of recording video.<\/p>\n

The burgeoning surveillance, Coggins said, raises the prospect of misuse against people exercising their free-speech rights, including protesters. He expects police eventually to combine smart glasses with facial recognition, and can imagine his private eye taking on a case to exonerate someone falsely identified by the technologies.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou sort of feel,\u201d Coggins said, \u201cthat the noose is tightening with all this stuff.\u201d<\/p>\n

No comprehensive count exists of arrests or convictions aided by the expanding surveillance network. Bay Area police frequently tout license plate cameras\u2019 role in identifying and arresting suspects, and departments around the region often solicit imagery from the public \u2014 including footage captured by parked Teslas using Sentry Mode \u2014 that may show suspects or others connected to crimes.<\/p>\n

\u201cDNA still is the greatest invention ever for solving crime, but video evidence from cameras is No. 2,\u201d San Mateo County District Attorney Stephen Wagstaffe said.<\/p>\n

His office uses imagery from doorbell cameras, CCTV, license plate cameras and Teslas. Wagstaffe credits Flock license plate cameras with playing a crucial role in three murder investigations and helping secure convictions.<\/p>\n

In April, killer John Caisiano Thompson of East Palo Alto was sentenced to 40 years to life for murdering his tenant, Breanna Labat, who has never been found. A license plate camera near Stockton captured Thompson\u2019s pickup truck with what appeared to be a tarp-wrapped body in the back, providing \u201ccrucial evidence for the jury\u201d that convicted him, Wagstaffe said.<\/p>\n

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San Jose police Lt. Jennings said video footage provided by the owner of a parked Tesla was critical to the identification and prosecution of Peter Karasev, who was sentenced last year to 10 years in federal prison for bombing PG&E electrical transformers in San Jose in 2022 and 2023.<\/p>\n

Jennings heads the San Jose Police Department\u2019s Real Time Intelligence Center, where officers and analysts track suspects moment by moment using nearly 500 Flock license plate cameras and 1,100 city intersection cameras. Owners of nearly 1,500 residential security cameras have agreed to provide access to the department for investigations.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll this stuff \u2026 ties up a case and puts kind of a bow on it for the D.A.\u2019s office,\u201d Jennings said.<\/p>\n

Bay Area literary agent Kimberley Cameron likens today\u2019s surveillance network to George Orwell\u2019s \u201c1984,\u201d in which the government uses two-way video \u201ctelescreens\u201d to watch and control citizens.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat fiction is real today,\u201d said Cameron, owner of Kimberley Cameron & Associates in Tiburon.<\/p>\n

Cameron said crime writers should incorporate the technology into their stories, and not merely for veracity\u2019s sake.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s what writing is, it\u2019s a testament to what\u2019s going on in the world,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

To keep fictional villains from falling victim to the surveillance web, some crime writers set stories \u201cin a historical time, where electronic devices aren\u2019t a common thing,\u201d said James L\u2019Etoile, a thriller author, executive vice president of Mystery Writers of America and former director of parole operations for California\u2019s prison system.<\/p>\n

\u201cRemote, isolated locations are another option to avoid getting caught up in the electronic dragnet.\u201d<\/p>\n

While it\u2019s impossible to be fully \u201cinvisible,\u201d said Pacifica computer-crimes investigator and author Robin Stuart, \u201cthere\u2019s always a blind spot\u201d in the surveillance.<\/p>\n

Because disappearing is much harder in the age of mass surveillance, crime writers often turn to deception, said Stuart, a contributor to the Cyber Detectives exhibit at San Jose\u2019s The Tech Interactive museum. A character identified by cameras might seek out a broker who supplies false identities, she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey have fake documents, passports, credit cards,\u201d Stuart said.<\/p>\n

Writers such as Stuart, who spoke in July as an author and cybercrime expert at the Book Passage Mystery Writers Conference in Corte Madera, are key resources for crime writers trying to keep pace with fast-evolving surveillance technologies, said Tim Maleeny, who sets most of his private-eye novels in San Francisco.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou need, as a writer, to do enough homework, and talk to an expert,\u201d Maleeny said.<\/p>\n

In a recent museum-heist book, Maleeny had a character travel through an underground sewer tunnel to avoid the cameras above ground.<\/p>\n

Criminals also look for ways to defeat surveillance innovations.<\/p>\n

\u201cEvery time some technology gets developed, the crooks work on some way to get around it,\u201d District Attorney Wagstaffe said.<\/p>\n

When courts impose constitutional boundaries on surveillance \u2014 as when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in June that obtaining blanket cellphone-location data identifying people near a crime scene constitutes a Fourth Amendment search \u2014 law enforcement may seek other tools, said UC Berkeley law school professor Jonathan Simon.<\/p>\n

The ruling represented a \u201cvery significant potential step back, away from the total-surveillance society,\u201d Simon said. But he expects law enforcement to respond by expanding camera networks to \u201ccreate an ability to track people that\u2019s almost as strong as the cell phone model.\u201d<\/p>\n

Simon pointed to a growing market for surveillance systems developed by U.S. companies including Axon, Genetec and Motorola, and Israeli firms including Cognyte and High Lander.<\/p>\n

Short of reaching the \u201cprecrime\u201d enforcement system imagined in Philip K. Dick\u2019s \u201cThe Minority Report\u201d and the blockbuster film it inspired, where police can arrest people for offenses they\u2019re destined to commit, fictional villains \u201ccan still act faster than law enforcement,\u201d said Utah mystery and thriller writer Mettie Ivie. But the prevalence of cameras makes it harder for a criminal to remain on the run for long, forcing authors to rethink the pace of their stories.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt does compress the timeline,\u201d Ivie said.<\/p>\n

And, she added, \u201cIt makes for more interesting villains \u2014 they have to be more sophisticated.\u201d<\/p>\n

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