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Security is absolutely necessary in down towns. In LA, it is out of control. You can't even go inside a 711 without being harassed until they hired guards.
by xeromal 5y ago
Security is absolutely necessary in down towns. In LA, it is out of control. You can't even go inside a 711 without being harassed until they hired guards.
- adjkant 5y agoNot my experience at all in the downtowns of NYC, Boston, Seattle, and SF. DTLA is a very unique downtown due to many factors specific to LA (mainly car culture taking away practical significance from the city center + the housing sprawl) and that doesn't generalize to most actual cities.
- WarOnPrivacy 5y ago> Security is absolutely necessary in down towns. In LA, it is out of control. You can't even go inside a 711 without being harassed until they hired guards. At which point the need was filled. No dystopic community mercenary forces were necessary.
- xeromal 5y agoI think the idea of the citizen security force is for communities that don't have the money to afford security guards like the large buildings that can.
- WarOnPrivacy 5y agoCurrently, Citizen offers a subscription product called 'Protect', which costs $19.99 per month. Protect sends a user's location to a Citizen employee when it's turned on, can stream video to a 'Protect agent' when activated using a safeword, and is pitched to users as a 'digital bodyguard'. Protect also advertises 'Instant emergency response to your exact location' This seems like the idea is to supply a rent-a-thug to individuals, on-demand.
- xeromal 5y agoExactly, before Citizen I don't think anyone could pay 19.99 a month to have a thug come watch them.
- WarOnPrivacy 5y ago> before Citizen I don't think anyone could pay 19.99 a month to have a thug come watch them. Really? How much is a case of beer now?
- WarOnPrivacy 5y agorecap: [you] I think this is for communities [me] nope. not communities [you] exactly