I can see a validity to cameras in public places. However the tyranny of the recent Covid era shows the ease of abuse. We’d have locked down much harder had they been in place. I think the cure is worse than the disease here sadly although I can see where an honest government could use them properly.
Cops etc are already following exes and so forth. Obviously they are badly abused already and we aren’t even in Chi Com lockdown.
They definitely need to require a specific and VALID JUDICIAL WARRANT for ANYONE to access Flock databases.
Cameras can’t stop crime. They can only help investigation.
For most violent cases, the perps are let right out anyway.
But you can be pretty sure there will be a lot fewer expired tags.
I wouldn’t it too much if I trusted the government
however I don’t
How long before the are used to ticket for speeding , running a redight, hurrying through a yellow light, unsafe lane change, expired tag and so forth?
Go to DeFlock.org to see a map of all the Flock (and other company's) cameras in the U.S.
It is interesting to watch the reactions Police have to the “mobile flockers” who call themselves 1st amendment auditors,
and compare that to what they want to do to us.
The cops love cameras, but only the ones they control.
https://x.com/scottenlow/status/2090061223618597068/video/
Look what China did with the surveillance state and their social credit system. China used Google to help put their system together. Don’t think that Flock, Google and the AI centers are not doing the same thing here.
I have a mixed feeling about this. I can see its usefulness and also the drawbacks. Pluses are a useful tool for law enforcement. Negative drawback is less and less privacy and how your travels could be used against you.
TV molds the mind of the future...
For years we’ve seen Black Guy - White Girl starring roles in 50% of the movies we see. Now, there has been a surge in Arab Guy - White Girl in the past 10 years... The hole time, all movie plots display and depend on state of the art Traffic Camera’s, imperative in catching the bad guy or saving the victim. People, and I’ll use an old term describing the people of today perfectly, The Eloi... The Eloi just walk their walk in a trans, not knowing any better whatsoever...
These cams are here to stay. and The Eloi will make sure of it for their own safety...
Safer?
For who?
the anti flock camera peeps are just the same old defund the police people.
Cars already are tracking you so the company can sell this information to your insurance company.
Really all spying should be illegal either from the government or big business out of an actual warrant.
If that means a company loses some money...thats fine.
who authorized these cameras all over the country, not just in high crime areas? Who pays for them?
“Rich Lowry”
Be interesting to find out which boards he sits on.
China has cameras everywhere .
Let’s also talk about the driver monitoring systems being installed in new cars.
And car data sent to insurance companies
Not in New Hampshire, they're not.
Gee, Rich, ya reckon? If they can do it to a sitting President they can do it to us. But hey, let's compromise - repeal the ordinances prohibiting civilians from photographing the police and we'll consider the ones allowing them to photograph us. Deal?
Want to make our country and cities safer?
Prosecute criminals and stop electing Democrats!