The old fashioned way cops enforce traffic law is, typically: unevenly, ineffectively, expensively, and with a large dose of racism. So we’re talking about tra

The old fashioned way cops enforce traffic law is, typically: unevenly, ineffectively, expensively, and with a large dose of racism. So we’re talking about trading off your concerns over potential abuse and misuse of technology vs concerns about potential abuse and misuse of police powers vs just allowing traffic to kill more cyclists and pedestrians. The nihilistic libertarian says ‘precisely - government doesn’t work - we can’t hope to make things better by concentrating power’ An optimistic democratic-institutionalist says ‘we can constrain governments at the ballot box and with constitutional limitations’. I suspect our disagreement lies somewhere in the chasm between these world views.