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Their 5 desired behaviors are admirable. The 2nd item, "The government must not store data about innocent people for any lengthy period." is hard to implement g
by ectospheno 8y ago
Their 5 desired behaviors are admirable. The 2nd item, "The government must not store data about innocent people for any lengthy period." is hard to implement given existing police department budgets. The only way for you to know you can delete is to perform an investigation to verify you can delete. Doing that every few months on each plate isn't reasonable. You could speed up the process by having a national database but I imagine they would be even less happy about that.
I love the ACLU. I donate monthly. I fear a US without the ACLU far more than I fear a US with the ACLU. But every now and then I don't think they have completely thought out the opposing point of view or the realities of time and money.
- maxerickson 8y agoI don't understand your logic. Why can't they just delete any information that isn't part of an active investigation? Because they don't want to take any heat from pro-authoritarians in the case that a later investigation could have used the evidence? In the past police departments have been happy enough to just ignore rape kits for years and years. I guess people would flip their shit if unprocessed rape kits were destroyed, but that's specific evidence...