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Yeah but the funny thing is that these surveillance networks never actually seem to be used to solve normal crimes. Is it laziness on the part of the police?
by 01100011 6y ago
Yeah but the funny thing is that these surveillance networks never actually seem to be used to solve normal crimes. Is it laziness on the part of the police? Are they trying to reserve these systems for more serious crimes so we forget they exist? Is it just a matter of time before police culture catches up and we see license plate readers, cell phone records, CCTV networks, etc used to track down petty thieves and robbers?
Last year the police were begging for help to solve some of the gun store robberies that happened during the BLM unrest. Why did they need the public's help? They could have checked cell phone records, stitched together traffic camera video, and likely tracked down the suspects within weeks.
I think the most likely scenario is that we gave all these tools to create a surveillance state, but the bureaucracy is too lazy to use them.
- swader999 6y agoShould be feasible to track all contacts for covid cases through existing intelligence infrastructure. But we don't.
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- papa_reton 6y agoDidn't you hear of Snowden's revelations? NSA has full access such data. The police does not. The police cares about murders and bank robberies. NSA does not.
- sneak 6y agohttps://www.hrw.org/news/2018/01/09/us-secret-evidence-erodes-fair-trial-rights https://www.hrw.org/news/2018/01/09/us-secret-evidence-erode... The data is already being used by domestic law enforcement in a technique called parallel construction.
- adventurer 6y agoThe police and other areas of the government who apparently doesn't have direct access to the NSA data just buys it from brokers anyway. https://www.theverge.com/2021/1/22/22244848/us-intelligence-memo-admits-buying-smartphone-location-data https://www.theverge.com/2021/1/22/22244848/us-intelligence-...
- tim44 6y agoPolice are busy searching private DNA databases for serial killers and trying to normalize that avenue.
- gvd 6y agoThey are used in murder cases
- goatinaboat 6y agoWhy did they need the public's help? They could have checked cell phone records, stitched together traffic camera video, and likely tracked down the suspects within weeks. They will mysteriously remember that they can do that in the next spate of unrest, now that it serves no useful purpose.