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At the end of the article: “Police are barred by city ordinance from installing surveillance cameras in San Francisco” This just seems bonkers to me - every f
by tommoor 11y ago
At the end of the article:
“Police are barred by city ordinance from installing surveillance cameras in San Francisco”
This just seems bonkers to me - every few days hoodline is reporting a stabbing / shooting in the TL and they never seem to have any leads, I guess this is why. There should be security cameras on every cross street in the TL.
- x3n0ph3n3 11y ago> There should be security cameras on every cross street in the TL. How would you feel if the city wanted to install video cameras all over your neighborhood, keeping track of everyone's comings and goings?
- alexandercrohde 11y agoSo my coworker, let's call him "Justin" woke up less than 2 weeks after midnight to two voices and somebody sticking his foot through his open window (lives in tenderloin, with his gf). To me that's a much more pressing fear than overpolicing.
- HillaryBriss 11y agoI think people who live in a crime ridden neighborhood would, in many cases, be supportive if the cameras reduced crime. I believe the practical reality is that, in most places where video security cameras are ubiquitous (e.g. London), the vast majority of the recorded footage is never viewed by anyone and is not archived. There's too much of it and it's too boring.
- DanBC 11y agoAlthough London also has extensive car number-plate reading technology so they don't need to store the video, they can just store the rats nest of hits of vehicles travelling around.
- HillaryBriss 11y agoThanks for pointing that out. This does take matters to a different level because someone will surely hack such a nifty DB of license plates, times and locations (if they haven't already). But even so, there's a legitimate policy debate to be had about the value of such a DB vis a vis its riskiness to individual privacy. Unfortunately, that's the difficult world we live in. Medical records have been hacked. Voter records have been hacked. And yet, somehow, societies have continued to compile and update them.
- tommoor 11y agoThis is my neighbourhood... and I'd love it.
- tommoor 11y agoAnother day, another stabbing - 15th this year - and they don't even have a description of the culprit http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Man-stabbed-to-death-in-San-Francisco-s-7316614.php#photo-9894625 http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Man-stabbed-to-death-in-S...