Through-the-Wall Surveillance: A New Technology for Saving Lives
NIJ Journal No. 258 • October 2007
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/nij/journals/258/through-the-wall-surveillance.html
Christopher A. Miles
"Actor Kevin Costner said it best in the 2006 movie The Guardian, in which he played a legendary U.S. Coast Guard rescue swimmer. During a conversation with one of his young charges, he said, “There will come a time when you might have to decide who lives and who dies out there. It’s a terrible responsibility, but it’s one you will have to make . . . . The bigger reality is it’s also something you are going to have to live with as a human being.” With life and death on the line, it is impossible to overstate the value of new technologies that save lives, especially when they reduce the risk to citizens, law enforcement officers, and soldiers. One such technology is through-the-wall surveillance (TWS)."