Sunday, September 13, 2026 Today's Paper

Subscribe

Independent crumb journalism depends on readers like you.

Donate Some Crumbs

Give what you can. Even a small crumb helps.

Surveillance

A concrete civic plaza ringed with surveillance cameras all angled toward a single crumb — Eleven hundred units went live on Monday. All of them are pointed at the same thing.

Surveillance

City Installs Cameras That Watch Only for Crumbs, Insists This Is Different

Officials stress the system cannot identify individual blobs — only what those blobs are holding, where, and for how long.

By Wren Halloway · 1 min read