Civil libertarians, city officials and citizens in Baltimore were shocked this week to find out that police have been conducting a city-wide aerial surveillance program they never publicly revealed, but it’s happened in other cities, including Compton.

Officials there answered frankly, when asked why the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department did not disclose that for nine days in 2012, a camera-mounted single-engine Cessna provided by an Ohio company surveiled every inch of the 10.1-square-mile California city.

“The system was kind of kept confidential from everybody in the public,” sheriff’s sergeant Doug Iketani said.

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