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They'd find a need (or excuse) for it regardless of the state of our immigration system.
Redmond, WA, turns off Flock Safety cameras after ICE arrests
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#12What did they think would happen? Installing surveillance systems to monitor people is acceptable, as long as they're only used against the majority? I don't understand the logic here.
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I’d start by being ticked off that my city was burning money deploying a cloud-connected mass surveillance apparatus.
Until someone you love gets abducted, and then you want them to be found right now .
Until the government decides someone you love needs to get disappeared, and then you want to provide no aid to them.
This technology swings both ways and as such is too dangerous to exist. We have plenty of other means to instantly and broadly raise awareness about abductions.
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Flock doesn't fight crime, it documents the travel of people without a reason.
It and other ALPR systems real-time alert on things like stolen cars. In my home county they have arrested and convicted criminals due to this. That is fighting crime, by definition.
If it was such a bad idea, they shouldn't have installed them in Redmond. Turning them off now because some people assumed things that weren't true is idiocy and sets a bad precedent.
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#15NB: Title edited to add "WA" for clarity. I.e., this is the city of, not a toponym for another entity.
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I don’t buy that for a second. Governments always want more control, and this is just another way for them to get it.
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on the books immigration law has been broken for decades. do you expect people across the border wait a decade to get their turn for an immigration interview only to be turned down, when they can just cross the border?
When laws become impractical, they create 11 million law breakers.