re: Why are there flock cameras all over NYC, but not the UWS?

I normally like your comments but you are way off the mark here.

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Ring cameras are privately owned and operated by homeowners/citizens.

The issue is with a network of cameras used by the government/law enforcement.

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Many businesses and private citizens are using Flock cameras. Citizens can just as easily turn in their private video to police to result in the same situation you described as if that is the outcome you object to.

Your statement that police can come “grab you and take you to the police station and show you a video recorded from a flock camera of a crime being committed and say you're the guy in the video. Even if you didnt do it and it was a mistake with the facial recognition technology or AI, you're about to be spending thousands of dollars defending yourself and wasting months of time. Better hope they give you bail or else you're losing your job too” was actually intended to be limited to flock cameras as if the same thing cannot happen with private cameras?

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was actually intended to be limited to flock cameras as if the same thing cannot happen with private cameras?

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you must be old

By the way, the Upper West Side probably has a dozen cameras per resident. Why would the cops need to purchase and place cameras when they can just ask those rich folks to give them the tape of someone trying to break into their residence?

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That sounds like a false talking point.

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You sound like a subservient fgt.

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In the United States and most other Western nations, standing too close was governed by emergency health orders rather than a specific standalone "too close" criminal statute, though violating general social distancing orders or refusing to disperse in public spaces like parks, beaches, or commercial venues could result in misdemeanor charges, citations, or arrest

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And we all read the stories and saw the videos of police arresting people

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Los Angeles, California: The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department and local police formed dedicated task forces to break up large underground parties and gatherings. In separate high-profile enforcement actions, deputies arrested 158 people at an illegal warehouse party in downtown Los Angeles and later arrested roughly 90 adults at underground New Year's Eve gatherings in late 2020 and early 2021 for violating emergency public health orders

New York City, New York: The New York City Police Department issued hundreds of summonses and made localized arrests for non-compliance with emergency measures and social distancing rules, particularly during large social gatherings in boroughs like Brooklyn and the Bronx. Data from early 2020 showed enforcement and arrests clustered heavily in specific neighborhoods, including areas in Brownsville

Columbus, Cincinnati, and Toledo, Ohio: Local law enforcement agencies charged and arrested individuals across major Ohio counties for misdemeanor violations of state health directives that mandated strict stay-at-home behavior and social distancing

Chicago, Illinois: The Chicago Police Department issued targeted citations and made localized arrests after breaking up group gatherings and non-essential parties that defied municipal pandemic safety ordinances

Minneapolis, Minnesota: State and local authorities filed criminal charges against dozens of individuals—including business owners and residents—for violating executive stay-at-home and capacity orders

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if you can’t figure out what UWS means here, I don’t know what to tell you

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WDYEYPB?

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Thats why I used AI data center outrage. We now know its funded by NGOs linked to the chinese govt. They would like nothing better than to stop all of them in the US, so use the useful fools to protest.

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Here’s another observation about it.

The ANTIFA movement promotes property damage as a form of tantrum behavior to achieve their goals- social disruption, anarchy, and obviously the disruption of property rights.

What solution do we keep reading about on these topics? Vandalism. People are promoting the destruction of private property in order to address their grievance of too much transparency when out in public spaces. They only want some witnesses, not the ones who can and do intervene and remove criminals from society.

We saw this same line of reasoning when they were taking over public spaces, burning public and private businesses, and destroying private assets like the Waymo vehicles right after Trump’s election.

Real libertarians do not embrace tantrum behavior. They weigh the tradeoffs in that they value freedom until it interferes with their personal liberty and where they have an expectation of privacy.

But there are clever organizations adept at manipulating human behavior and capitalizing on groupthink.

Not all of the people jumping on board this social movement would think of themselves as ANTIFA members, but they should be questioning whether or not they are the useful idiots drawn to movements like this based on a tempting premise.

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they have been around for less than a decade

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The first alpr camera was invented in 1976. They have been widely used across the world since the 1990’s including the US.