Cops don’t need traffic-enforcement cameras to set up a license plate surveillance system. They do they anyway.
telles que l'installation de clôtures, l'augmentation du nombre d'agents frontaliers ou l'intensification de la surveillance. apnews.com/article/norw...
Norway may put a fence along part or all of the 123-mile border it shares with Russia, a move inspired by a similar project in its Nordic neighbor Finland.
Part of car culture is that the car is a extension of the self, so any suggestion for enforcement/surveillance is considered unacceptably Orwellian
A quirk of pre-2000’s sci-fi and dystopia I kind of like is how blimps are implemented in police surveillance states Like anything flying that doesn’t look like a bird, a plane or a helicopter is treated as this funky far-out technological marvel
I'll add- in segregated cities, you'll often find that speed cameras are disproportionately placed in Black neighborhoods*. "Ubiquitous surveillance for whom?" * similar to the pattern identified for ShotSpotter sensors
“…when speed cameras are doing the ticketing, the proportion of tickets issued to Black and white drivers aligns closely with their respective share of roadway users. With human enforcement, in contrast, police officers stop Black drivers at a rate that far outstrips their presence on the road.”
‘Driving while Black’: Researchers found that Black drivers make up 70% of police traffic stops on roads where only half the drivers are Black.
The only surveillance I support. In Seattle, where I live, it's BIPOC neighborhoods that have the lousiest intersections, and pedestrians die regularly. Also, peripherally, WHY THE HELL is it not true that any FSD vehicles are speed restricted to the legal limit? For god's sake, e-bikes are!
Oh no we’re doing “traffic cameras are N evil surveillance state not a vast improvement on Officer Prosciutto’s biases” discourse. Again. Why.
I'm fine with limited use of speed cameras, such as in school zones and 25 zones in general. But on freeways and major roads they are a ready made deeply invasive surveillance mechanism.
If it were possible to use speed cameras as a *temporary* solution while we address the ills of the policing system then I think it would absolutely be the right thing to do. But thusfar, the surveillance state rarely narrows its scope.
I think broader police reform is what's needed here, not an expansion of the surveillance state.