(12-10-2024, 06:28 AM)727Sky Wrote: With A.I. and video cameras tracking this suspect, expect cameras to sprout like weeds in every city that can afford them.
Here they solve most of their crimes by video surveillance or citizens stopping criminals.
Just call us Londonistan, USA.
We have "red light cameras" even out here in the boonies at some locations, but as far as I can tell, none of them are actually connected to anything. Folks run 'em, nobody ever says shit about it.
I remember when they put stop light cameras in Greensboro, NC. Started with 5, one of which was constantly getting knocked down. I know for sure it got knocked down at least 6 times, and spray-painted with black spray paint 3 times. Folks apparently didn't like them much.I heard a lot of "if they're gonna catch me, they're gonna do it fair and square, the old fashioned way, with a cop and flashing lights and a pair of Mark 1 eyeballs that see me do it!" The city didn't like them much either, in the end. They were hauling folks into court on traffic light issued "tickets", but weren't getting many convictions. it seems that in court, one has the right to face their accuser, and no one was willing to bring a traffic camera into the court, much less a guy from Florida who was monitoring it, so a lot of folks skated on the tickets issued. How the hell can a camera swear an oath of office, and how can a little guy in Florida - not even a cop, just a guy - issue a legal ticket when he hasn't been sworn, either.. much less sworn to enforce law in North Carolina? There is a jurisdictional issue there that hasn't been adequately explored.
A guy tried to steal my truck in Kansas City, and we had him on camera. It was funny as shit - he tried to pry open a back window to get in, and it let loose all of a sudden sending both he and the window flying half way across the street landing on his ass.... but that camera was at a private business across the street, not a government camera. After he landed on his ass in the street, he lost heart and ghosted, because he knew whose truck it was and figured that much noise was gonna draw unwanted attention. He stayed down in Westport for a while until he figured I'd gotten over it, but he figured wrong. Soon as he came back, folks saw him and called me, so I went to have a chat with him about damages - he could either pay to replace the window, OR I could disassemble him, take the cost of the window replacement out of his ass.. I figured that was fair enough - give him a chance to redeem himself rather than just bending him all up without recourse.
Wasn't long after the window was repaired that I left Kansas City. We didn't need any government interference to sort that out, Matter of fact, the cops were utterly useless - they wouldn't even come out to that neighborhood at night to take a report. I had to go to them so they could stay safe while they took the report.
So, the cameras CAN be useful, if used properly, and they can be utterly useless if used improperly. I'm still not convinced the guy they have is the right guy, and I'm almost certain that the two guys on all the pictures being spread around - Mask Guy and Face Guy - are not the same person. They look way too different to me I think the case may be being built on a lot of fluff and nothing, with some cop agencies being way too eager to yell "look at us! We're gittin' 'er done!" And very possibly barking up the wrong tree in their haste to make themselves look good.
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