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> There should be no expectation of privacy for any public officer It's worth noting that SF Parking Control Officers aren't "police" by most any definition. T
by varenc 1y ago
> There should be no expectation of privacy for any public officer
It's worth noting that SF Parking Control Officers aren't "police" by most any definition. They're not sworn, and they don't qualify as peace officers under California law. They can't execute warrants, make arrests, or carry firearms, etc. They work under the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA), not the SFPD.
Their enforcement powers are limited to issuing parking citations, ordering tows, and directing traffic. About the only thing they share with actual police is the word "Officer" in the job title. Tracking these folks is about equivalent to tracking individual USPS employees.
- contrarian1234 1y ago> tracking USPS employees ... that actually also sounds useful i don't see why they shouldnt be tracked while working
- varenc 1y agoTracking the location of the truck delivering your package sounds pretty useful. And UPS/Amazon already do this. But publishing the individual personal location of each of the 500,000 USPS employees in real-time while they're working... is a bit different.
- e_y_ 1y agoIf we're talking about public tracking: package theft
- contrarian1234 1y agoUhhh... Seems like the problem to address is crime? It's kinda crazy what kind of third world shit people just accept as normal now
- thatfrenchguy 1y agoIf you track them while working you’ll focus on hourly productivity rather than annual productivity and customer satisfaction. My postman has literal love letters by children written on houses on the block, makes sure you never loose any important documents, and so generally amazing, and I’m sure if you looked at his « number of houses per hour » metric it’d look bad.
- dragonwriter 1y ago> They work under the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA), not the SFPD. The other points are valid, but note that California’s main general purpose state police force (CHP, which also absorbed the named-as-such State Police in 1995) is part of the State Transportation Agency, so being organizationally subordinated to a transportation agency is not really evidence of not being “police” in the normal sense.