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Rule 1. Do not comply in advance. Do not accept it as inevitable. Do not give away your power without friction.
by diydsp 11mo ago
Rule 1. Do not comply in advance. Do not accept it as inevitable. Do not give away your power without friction.
- lcnPylGDnU4H9OF 11mo agotptacek writes on here sometimes about their activity in local politics. This perspective (from my reading) is that it has a lot of strong support that is difficult to oppose, not that we should give up. Read "give it a year or two" as "give it a year or two of things going as they are".
- potato3732842 11mo agoHe also lives in a "nice" suburb of Chicago IIRC I strongly suspect a neighborhood in Chicago composed of the kind of demographics the "nice" suburb's residents are worried about would have a very different take on the issue. And by "strongly suspect" I mean "know because I live in that kind of neighborhood in a different city in a different state".
- tptacek 11mo agoIt's genuinely funny how wrong you are about this, or about what my intersection with Flock is. Go on, keep extrapolating!
- kasey_junk 11mo agoI’m pretty confused by the innuendo in the posters comment to even get what they are saying, but I can report from the south side of chicago that surveillance cameras are largely popular across demographics.
- tptacek 11mo agoHe's suggesting that Oak Park is supportive of Flock cameras because we're afraid of Black folks.
- venturecruelty 11mo agoThat's terrible! Nobody would ever say that out loud.
- tptacek 11mo agoYeah there's a bigger problem with the claim than that.
- potato3732842 11mo agoNot black, poor, perhaps "methy" even. Any crossover with black is purely coincidental. I don't think you're racist in the slightest.
- tptacek 11mo agoYou don't know anything about me or about Oak Park. We killed our Flock contract. I did a good bit of the policy lifting to make that happen, including co-writing our initial pilot ALPR police General Order to lock them down and set up the transparency reporting that enabled us to make the case for killing them. But, keep going, I'm interested in what else you can confidently state about my work.
- amypetrik8 11mo agoSpeaking as a person of color, the government Oak Park prosecuted me for reasons of my blackness which is racist. The controversey that followed, if you ask me, is why the cameras got shot down. Transparency and not being big brother is just a convenient excuse to put a positive spin on it, as politicians do.
- tptacek 11mo agoKnowing in extreme and annoying detail exactly the series of events that led us to kill our Flock contract, I do not believe this is at all true. I don't think trolling is a good plan here.
- JumpCrisscross 11mo ago> strongly suspect a neighborhood in Chicago composed of the kind of demographics the "nice" suburb's residents are worried about would have a very different take on the issue I live in Jackson Hole. None of my neighbours knew what these were. They’re getting taken out. Don’t presume what folks are worried about without asking them.