| ▲ | scarmig 2 days ago | ||||||||||||||||||||||
> I live in a tech heavy, wealthy city. It’s small. No violent crime. Barely any crime at all. Compare to e.g. Oakland, which recently approved a Flock expansion: https://oaklandside.org/2025/12/17/oakland-flock-safety-coun... Why? https://sfstandard.com/2023/06/09/oakland-crime-police-respo... https://oaklandside.org/2025/10/08/oakland-watchdog-audit-po... https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/oakland-police-off... Now, will Flock help with this? No. But the visceral lack of safety people feel makes them more likely to see it as a necessary evil, not snake oil. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | burnt-resistor 2 days ago | parent [-] | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Baltimore has metric shittons of police cameras but it's still a dangerous shithole. Cameras don't stop idiot criminals from criming. Baltimore's police suck and the area sucks because there's massive unemployment, cameras aren't a panacea. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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