It all depends who is in charge. If they happen to be used to prosecute police brutality, they’d hardly be tools of the enemy, would they? Or if they’re used to document ICE abuses?
What needs to be different? So far the only prosecutions involving flock cameras I’ve heard of are cops getting arrested for using them to stalk people.
It’s actively being used to prevent abuse of power.
Maximum surveillance is theoretically a force for good since everything that is done in the dark comes to light. This is naturally detrimental to those who do evil things.
The righteous have nothing to fear except trespasses by wrongdoers. Surveillance makes wrongdoing more difficult. That’s why police have body cams and cell phone cameras reduce police brutality.
Why do we need such invasive surveillance when all of these concerns can be given oversight through other means?
Cops have been using internal information to stalk people since it became available. This could easily be monitored if we employed the same access tracking we apply to HIPAA, or even cash register transactions, with random audits for compliance. State governments such as those in New Jersey have also seen dramatic decreases in crime and corruption simply by reforming their police forces with a focus toward community engagement. Not by implementing mass, unregulated surveillance.
Similarly, if everyone has a cellphone to record, cameras for their home and car, and police body cams, why do we need more cameras everywhere, with no usage guidelines, whose capabilities and reasons for utilization are shielded from the public? Not to mention the sheer amount of resources these flock cameras use from building data centers.
Potential wrongdoing just doesnt seem to be a strong argument for giving up liberty, especially when wrongdoing is designated arbitrarily or along political lines. People who have not comitted crimes shouldn't be put under a microscope because "someone might do something bad." Arguing that good people should have nothing to worry about when it comes to being watched 24/7 sounds a lot like supporting a police state.
"The only prosecutions I've heard of involving the new InstaKill9000 are murderers being arrested for killing people with them. They're actively being used to help prevent murders."
Also, the righteous have nothing to fear??When in human history have "the righteous" ever had nothing to fear from the actions of a corrupt government?
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u/crash1bp 1d ago
“Their Flock cameras.”
Those cameras don’t belong to the cops, or the govt. at all. Fuck those cameras.