Lights...Camera....Fascism

Here is a great example of citizen advocacy journalism:

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Good Production Value, But...

Clever. But not much news in it, other than the obvious. Surely there is some sort of citizen backlash movement against such invasive techniques by LAPD? You'd think. Guess they're all too busy smoozin' out there to care that their every movement is being watched and recorded in ways none of them or us know nothing about.

Oh that there were a

Oh that there were a backlash! I made the video because people here are thrilled about the cameras (I allude to it at the end). You see the cops absolutely willfully refused to stop the crime for the last 20 years, specifically on Hollywood Boulevard, then came back with cameras being the only solution. It was a Hegelian Dialectic stunt of the first order. I've seen people smoking crack on the sidewalk right in front of them and residents saying "Arrest him, he harrasses us every day" and the cops just shrug and say "There's nothing we can do." What the hell? The can arrest they guy smoking the crack! So after literally begging with tears in our eyes to get them to do anything, most residents and the neighborhood councils are thrilled with the cams because there aren't condoms and crack vials on their doorstep in the morning. I see it differently. I beleive I have much more to fear from the LAPD following my every move, including INSIDE my apartment (oh, ex-ray vision scanners too, affixed to their blimps and helicopters, and microphones on the street) than from the dishevled tranny streetwalker. As a matter of fact I KNOW it. Just afraid that when everyone else realizes it, they'll be locked up in Staples Center fending for themselves like the Astrodome, because "martial law" has been declared.

Someone get out the tinfoil hats....

Paranoia will destroy ya.

I lived in London, the single most watched city in the free world. No civil liberties were infringed, no martial law was declared, no problems with overstepping of bounds or improper use of images.

The amount of data these cameras collect is physically impossible to look through and to do anything with. Cameras are effective at preventing crime and also effective at capturing the bad guys after the fact. Nothing beats good old fashion police work and I'm sympathetic to the Guest's pleas for his local law enforcement folks to enforce the laws, but cameras are not the end of your privacy or your freedom.

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