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When it comes to the State, we have to actively limit its activities. Especially when it comes to indiscriminate information gathering. Don't you find it odd th
by sirseal 12y ago
When it comes to the State, we have to actively limit its activities. Especially when it comes to indiscriminate information gathering. Don't you find it odd that there's no record of the real crimes -- homeless people fighting, gunshots, attempted burglary -- but there's the time and location information of this man's vehicle? Seems like the Alexandria PD has a clear bias in the types of information that they're interested in collecting and retaining.
- drdaeman 12y agoThat's right. Taxpayers money should be spent on a things that help taxpayers, not make problems for them. But I feel that's only tangentially about the privacy - it's all about state-to-citizen relationships.
- AndrewKemendo 12y agoExcept there is a record of those crimes - and largely due to other persistent sensors like gunshot sensors that have been put into high crime areas [1]. This one individual was not involved in those activities so he did not see them in his FOIA request. What you see with these types of sensors are easily deployable, fairly cheap, useful sensors that are doing what cops already do (license plate searches) only more quickly with the addition of geo-tagging. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunfire_locator http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunfire_locator
- wiredfool 12y agoOne would think that there was more direct record from the 911 calls that he made.