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FBI to Put Criminals Up in Lights
coondoggie writes "The FBI today said it wants to install 150 digital billboards in 20 major U.S. cities in the next few weeks to show fugitive mug shots, missing people and high-priority security messages from the big bureau. The billboards will let the FBI highlight those people it is looking for the most: violent criminals, kidnap victims, missing kids, bank robbers, even terrorists, the FBI said in a release. And the billboards will be able to be updated largely in real-time — right after a crime is committed, a child is taken, or an attack is launched. Chicago, Las Vegas, Los Angeles and Miami will be among those cities provided with the new billboards."
Now how many want to bet that some idiot will commit a crime just to get on the billboard?
I really don't mind this idea as long as they use existing billboard space.
Can we do a daily minute of hate as well?
Digital billboards? By the FBI?
Living in the future is so cool!
The chance to begin again in a golden land of opportunity and adventure!
Because fame is such a big deterrent. Especially in the States
Because you can - or because you should?
I saw a spot about this on some news TV program. Every single alleged criminal they showed on a billboard was either black or Hispanic. Now I'm not saying this isn't a good idea, and I'm not saying that it's a deliberate white-supremacist plot. But what are the consequences if this sampling is representative of the wanted postings in general? What happens when people see minorities on wanted postings over and over?
This is slander of the highest degree. These are people _accused_ of crimes, not guilty criminals. The damage to one's reputation will be near-irrepairable. I cannot believe that they are seriously considering this system.
It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.
Is it me or is the future starting to look more and more like the Running Man?
I guess the next thing we need is to make criminals get punished on TV game shows like The Price is Right, Jeopardy or Wheel of Fortune. Or maybe force them to be watch those programs, that is probably worse...
I'm glad they're not setting them up in Boston, otherwise idiots might yet-again confuse LED's for bombs.
Maybe they should spend some money on advertisement space on the internet. That way the notices could be on just about every web page that is ad supported. They could get more efficient advertisement due to the web being more detailed that billboards.
I think I could spot my brother in a website ad if he were posted on it.
Another good thing about this is that the wanted photos would be displayed when any store employee is surfing the internet. They would see the photo and maybe spot someone in the store at that time. Those people aren't going to remember the picture of the billboard they drove by on the way to work.
This kinds of schemes always remind me of the old Ahnold movie The Running Man. I understand there are lots of bad people out there... but, thing is, it takes a certain amount of trust for me to believe the guy on the billboard really is a murderer/child molester. Somebody I don't know is trying to enlist me in the search for someone else I don't know. It makes me a little uncomfortable.
What do you think they do in gaol?
The cost of that cleanup, of course, will be borne by taxpayers, not industry.
So when do these billboards start displaying the latest IngSoc?
Oops, wrong country. The US is far too smart for doublethink!
Let me be the first to welcome our informantively illuminated overlords. My love for them is as big as for a brother.
This was on CNN a good time ago. They were all happy because they caught some guy that turned himself in after seeing one of those build boards. There are many problems with these things. How long till people start acting in vigilantly ways? You couldn't put what they are wanted for without getting someone angry or violent. However if you didn't put up what they were wanted for people (especially in USA) would over act. Sure its neat but how long till someone who is actually not wanted for something ends up on one? If I wanted to see who was wanted for crimes I would go to the post office. However, If these things were only used for missing people I don't see the harm in them and welcome them fully.
Aren't there more than a 150 members of Congress? Or are they just sticking with Senators?
in real time?? i wonder if santa flew into one of these billboards, will we get a live broadcast of o good kind?
They're using these, and yes, they DO run Linux.
Launchy.net changed my world.
This is a really good idea!
I think it will be useful for:
I can't wait until these images can be broadcast directly into the skies above our houses. I have long thought that we don't mistrust and/or hate our fellow citizens enough in the USA. I was worried that we might drop our murder rates and/or school shootings to the levels of other countries, but it looks like we are well on our way to whipping our citizenry to new heights of paranoia and aggressiveness.
hacking into this network...
Billboards distract drivers and cause accidents. http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2003/08/17782/23546
These particular billboards could distract drivers worse than regular billboards. When you're designing a sign, you realize that you won't get much attention. There's a limit to visual acuity and available time as people move past your sign. You therefore make it simple. People get the message quickly and move on. These wanted posters invite you to take a close look so you can pick out the details and recognize the suspect if you see him/her. People will do that and there will be a net decrease in public safety as they smash into each other.
This is a clueless plan and a waste of the public's tax dollars. (Smoke comes out of my ears as I resist a rant.)
This is a much-belated step in the right direction - it would have been an excellent policy move 20 or 30 *years* ago, when giant billboards to facilitiate the 3 minutes hate, or to flash "OBEY" in subliminal letters, were state of the art.
But this is the 21st century - we can implant chips in people's brains now! We can contract out the manufacture of wireless control collars to the lowest bidder!
The government deiberately squelches these technologies to pander to the minority of religious nuts who have disproportional influence over our government.
That's why I support Ron Paul and the transumanist dystopian party - deregulation and the ability to sell advertizers direct access to our subconscious will enable us to achieve the economic benefits of a nihilistic hellscape.
The good and new comes from no quarter where it is looked for, and is always something different from what is expected.
Big brother is watching. And he loves you!
How long until some kidnap victim gets lynched by somebody who saw him on the billboard and thought he was the kidnapper?
Lars T.
To the guy who modded me down from perfect to terrible Karma - Apple haters still suck
Just imagine when the porn traders see this advertising opportunity. It will make the hacking of text signs look tame.
On the other hand, coming up to election time a "wanted for crimes against humanity" hack could go down well.
I guess there's going to be a lot of BLACK and MESTIZO faces on those billboards...
I'm sure the ADL and B'nai Brith will be onto this and accuse the police of 'profiling'... After all, we can't have WHITE Americans actually SEEING black and mestizo faces as criminals, can we? Becuase we know "We're all the same", right? Which is why Africans have put a man on the moon, and Mexico is a wonderful, prosperous country...
Oh, wait...
I'm of mixed feelings on this. On the one hand, I'm all for ways to help spread information and help make things safer. OTOH, I'm fortunate to now be living in one of 4 states in the USA which ban billboards. (The four states are: Maine, Vermont, Alaska, and Hawaii.)
It was hard to fathom just how "noisy" every place else was until I experienced it first hand. I've lived and traveled in other places where billboards were seemingly everywhere. (e.g. NYC, Boston, San Jose) A trip down any major road, especially near a large city, felt like an assault of advertisements screaming for my attention. (Hmmm. I wonder if that has anything to do with the prevalence of road rage?)
Send them out over radio and TV (ala National Weather Service weather alerts) or cell phones or ultra-mobile PCs or mobile GPS units. I'm sure you can think of others approaches.
BTW, I'm curious to see how long it'll take for MIT or Caltech to implement one of their infamous hacks on these?
I'm sure that if they're ever wrong, and put the wrong guy up on the billboard, they'll put up a correction later so the guy can clear his name in the public eye.
I'm sure of it.
Yeah.
These days billboards are ignored by so many anyway, i don't really see this as an effective use of funds. we are bombarded by so much nonsense now, this will just fade into the background.
---- Booth was a patriot ----
They want their bulletin board back.
God: When you do things right, people won't be sure you've done anything at all.
Did anyone else notice that Ohio gets three of these signs? One each in Cleveland, Akron, and Columbus. It makes me wonder why they skipped Cincinnati! Seriously though, regarding criminal movement on major highways: in the proposed areas they have coverage of I-80/90 in the Northeast, and I-71 in Columbus. Why would they pass up coverage on I-75? The road only stretches from Florida to the U.P. in Michigan! Even if they were trying to hit the major cities in Ohio, they passed up #3 (Cincinnati) and opted for #5 (Akron).
Definitely gives new meaning to the term 'Gateway State'!
Think of the intersection of subset: People_convicted_of crimes and subset: Guilty_criminals. There is a difference, but the FBI will never acknowledge this. Haven't you learned that? You must post bail pretty quick. Slander is high on the list of the FBI's accomplishments.
The cost of that cleanup, of course, will be borne by taxpayers, not industry.
Libel, maybe. Unless they have giant speakers under the billboard.
I can hardly wait for these to be subverted into showing Future Conan or old "Get Smart" episodes or something.
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Time for a new contest ladies and gentelmen:
The first one to hack those and put Bush face on there wins.
The prize? Fame, respect from peers, pride, a lot of media attention and, maybe, a prosecution.
Nobody will even try to hack in to put up pics of "W" or the dick...
"We are all geniuses when we dream"
- E.M. Cioran
If the FBI actually has to look for them - and no one knows where they are - then it doesn't sound like they are truly very dangerous criminals. Mostly they don't have to look for people with a habit of committing crimes, as they tend to have a habit of getting arrested. "Dangerous criminal" often just means dope dealer. While I'm sure there are dangerous dope dealers, we hardly need billboards lighting up local pot heads. "Paedophile" might really be that - or it might be Genarlow Wilson's face on that board. But hey we need to punish those evil teenagers who sleep with other teenagers! As for "terrorist" - don't get me started. Can we expect billboards of lunatic homeless who fancy themselves Al Qaeda operatives?
We will just destroy them just like our brothers are destroying the machine overseas.
http://blog.wired.com/sterling/2007/12/burning-british.html
I doubt one of these billboards can survive a homebrew thermite charge.
IANAL but isn't public shaming a form of cruel and unusual punishment?
2600 Magazine prints an article on how to hack into the billboards?
(Cue the Bush/Cheney billboard photoshops!)
Personally, I want to see the Fark Ha! Ha! Guy on it. That would be a coffee/keyboard moment for me.
The thought of giant billboards showing enemies of the state, and the public acceptance thereof, is just appalling. People wanted by the FBI for a crime have not been proven guilty in a court of law, and so for the government to broadcast that these people are guilty is an undo usurpation of police powers over the jury system.
This is my sig.
Yes, it seems the real criminals work either with or above the law.
This is the way it works in Florida.
The law turns a blind eye to the "cop friendly" criminal or gang's kidnapping, rapes and murders.
The full force of the law will be used to go after anyone seeking revenge against or trying to expose those perpetrators.
I cannot decide if this is the intent of the law enforcement personnel, or just that some criminals and gangs know the law and law enforcement tactics better than non-criminals.
I am the unwilling control for my Origin.
This might be unright thought on my part, but this seems pretty doubleplus ungood to me.
Has 1984 been...: ...most politicians?
a) Not read by...
b) A great source of inspiration to...
We have been calling things Orwelian for so long that it doesn't pack quite as much punch than before, which is ironic since things are getting more and Big Brother-ish than ever. What escapes me is...
Shouldn't politicians be afraid of passing laws* resembling a dystopian future in a novel about absolute fascism?
* or in this specific case, provide budget for technology...
But... the future refused to change.
Ummm... I get to see the faces of major criminals every day warping into jumpgates in EVE Online... All they need to do is add ads for Quafe© as well, and I'll completely lose the separation between RL and not...
That was my first thought as well... Images of Blade Runner and assorted novels by PKD... Countless scenes from sci-fi movies where the protagonist offends someone and suddenly their face is plastered across every vertical surface in the city.
I'm not quite sure why, but this bothers me quite a bit more than all the stories I've seen about pervasive surveillance.
"Work is the curse of the drinking classes." -Oscar Wilde
"For Your Protection."
Bush, Cheney, Rove, Gonzales, .... Pelosi etc
Can't the money be spent on finding reasons WHY the crimes are caused in the first place?
Oh I'm sorry, apparently asking "why" somehow rationalizes their actions, just like why we can't talk about the reasons WHY terrorists want to kill us.
The question "why" is so dangerous to people in this country for one single reason: religion. Yeah, mod me down offtopic or troll, or something else... but you know it is true. When people seriously start asking "why" about everything around them they will inevitably realize that religion is a joke. I guess people have too much pride to be able to look at their past selves and laugh at their stupid beliefs. Yes I just called your beliefs stupid, now ask yourself "why does he say that" instead of accusing me of persecuting you.
"The programmes of the Two Minutes Hate varied from day to day, but there was none in which Bin Laden was not the principal figure. He was the primal terrorist, the earliest defiler of the Party's purity. All subsequent crimes against the Party, all treacheries, acts of sabotage, heresies, deviations, sprang directly out of his teaching. Somewhere or other he was still alive and hatching his conspiracies: perhaps somewhere beyond the sea, under the protection of his foreign paymasters, perhaps even -- so it was occasionally rumoured -- in some hiding-place in Oceania itself. Winston's diaphragm was constricted. He could never see the face of Bin Laden without a painful mixture of emotions. It was a lean Arabic face, with a great fuzzy aureole of white hair and a small goatee beard -- a clever face, and yet somehow inherently despicable, with a kind of senile silliness in the long thin nose" My humblest appologies to the spirit of George Orwell (the prophet?) for the slight edits I've made to his original text.
"I have downloaded hundreds and hundreds of records, why would I care if somebody downloads ours?" Robin Pecknold
Freejack!
I'll bet that, even if it doesn't happen at first, this will turn in to a new way to advertise. Either the feds will sell ads to be rotated when there are no wanted madmen on the loose, or they'll integrate the ads directly in to the billboard. Imagine: Today's wanted felon, brought to you by Florida Orange Juice!
As if there was not enough already and americans these days are not fearful enough. Bring it on! Even more people afaraid of risks, that do not really apply to them or are incredible small! Makes controlling the sheepified masses even easier.
Seriosuly, this is a very bad idea and a public disturbance. Hiwever has had this idea is both stupid and has a hugely inflated ego.
Most ACs are not even worth the keystrokes to insult them. Be generically insulted by this and ignored otherwise.
Something about billboards with wanted criminal pictures that update in real time reminds me of 1984, Fahrenheit 451, and Minority Report all rolled into one...
Can I have the latest youtube videos whenever the screen is idle.. Thanks..
My girlfriend is black and she is generally concerned about crossing paths with young black males on city streets where there aren't lots of people. Hence she avoids its.
The problem we face here in America is that its offensive to too many people to declare a problem a problem if it identifies a minority group. Look at all the crap we are going through with illegal immigrants! People breaking the law to get here yet if we apply the label and are not part of that specific minority group you can be labled a bigot or racist.
We cannot fix society by looking away. This was how the cities got to be such a mess in many places. Box them in high rise slums and look away. Don't apply the stern hand and it all goes to hell. Its similar to schools. One of my coworkers moved to the suburbs so his wife would not get beaten up AGAIN in a middle school! Oh sure they get the kids but the problem is that removing one or two hooligans doesn't fix the problem - it only opens the door for someone else to step in. The system won't do anything because of lawsuits from aggrieved parents; only upset when their child is nailed for being bad, they aren't concerned about what the kid did just what the school did to punish them.
If the billboards do show a disproportional number of minorities then perhaps people in those communities and others will have to face the facts. More likely the program will just get ended as its easier to ignore a problem than fix it. The primary reason their numbers are higher isn't because as a people they are different or worse, its the fact that society doesn't try to really help them. It attempts to ignore them, hoping handouts will mollify them, and they only acts AFTER they become a problem. We need to put the fear of god (as in administrators and the teachers) back into the system and reward success more. We have school systems who go out of their way to not reward individual success and what has it gotten us? Show the kids there is a reason to be the best - AWARD them for doing the best. Don't let them get out and find a world which actually has winners and losers.
* Winners compare their achievements to their goals, losers compare theirs to that of others.
It is quite disgusting to see, from outside, how every mention of Bush's catastrophic actions is followed by someone, you in this case, replying what you did. Disgusting and sad.
Meanwhile, a few hundred people lay in their graves because of those actions. Sigh.
What they need to do is encourage companies to put in private electronic billboards. Municipalities would then require, as a part of the license, that the signs show critical data in times of emergency.
Why, just the other day I saw a wanted ad for Gordon Freeman on one of the billboards. If I see that commie terrorist punk I'll give him what for!
This will make for a really cool scene in some upcoming Hollywood movie: Good guy is wanted by the gov't for questioning authority, they make up stuff about him and now he can't go anywhere because everywhere he goes he sees pictures of himself and those lies that the FBI made up about him.
Welcome, welcome to City 17. You have chosen or been chosen to relocate to one of our finest remaining urban centers. I thought so much of City 17 that I elected to establish my administration here, in the Citadel so thoughtfully provided by our benefactors. I have been proud to call City 17 my home. So whether you are here to stay, or passing through on your way to parts unknown, welcome to City 17. It's safer here.
I'm none too happy with the powers given the the FBI, and I don't intend to help them out. Just feeling a little bitter about the government not holding up their side of the 'social contract'.
Blar.
Why not use the digital billboards to post photos and other relevant information about suspects before the crimes have even been committed? This could be accomplished through the use of thought sensors. If a person deviates from the preprogrammed thoughts and patterns of behavior, then the Thought Police can push some buttons and start monitoring the presumptive delinquent. I'm sure some people, especially those with a neoconservative, communist or fascist bent, would think this would be a fine idea...
Beauty is in the beholder of the eye.
If nothing else, most of them could probably be defeated with a dictionary attack in no time (I know a few of the ones I found would only take alphanumeric passwords up to 8 characters). I'd love to set one of the local McD's to show messages about obesity, animal rights, and anything else that could undermine them
Posting AC for plausible deniablity.
That's funny, I already thought they were doing this. Every Republican across the nation is under indictment for corruption or fraud, aren't they? And if not... they probably should be...
Seems to me the conservatives are just angling for more free campaign ads. I hear nobody is contributing anymore. Aside from Haliburton and Blackwater, that is.
I really can't grasp what your point is. If it's "watch out for this and make sure it's used properly" then I'm all for it and I agree. But your point seems to be "don't embarass criminals, they may be innocent!"
I'm sick of a supposedly free country trumpeting state powers everywhere one turns.
I've had it with checkpoints, searches, warning signs about the law, police, and everything else. We spent trillions of dollars fighting the Russians in the Cold War and now we do it voluntarily to ourselves because of a couple of drunk drivers, potheads, and disgruntled arabs? Come on? Where's the real threat? If we weren't going to go totalitarian while facing down the Red Army and the KGB, why on earth do it now?
I remember an America where you could drive down the street without seeing street signs saying to call the Feds at some 1-800 number if you see someone suspicious. I remember an America where airports were places that you partied at and had a few drinks watching the planes come in. I remember an America where you could drive around without seeing 2000 signs reminding you about following every single law. I remember an America where laws were made to be broken and the citizenry was cool about things. I remember being drunk and driving back and forth across the Canadian border without so much as even stopping, let alone having a passport or a visa.
This country has just gone mad with security, and I think the price is too high. If I had to put up with a little more crime and the occasional blown up building to get rid of all of these gestapo thugs, then, so be it.
This is my sig.
- This will inspire panic and paranoia in an already panic prone environment.
- This will create modern day witch hunts, lynchings, and more vigilantes
- This will inspire hate and racism
This is not the direction we need to be going in. Maybe instead we could just make it easier to find this information like from terminals and websites, but throwing it in people's faces on the drive to a wedding or work is going to change the way we think. I come from a place called San Bernardino California. In that place there is much hate and racism. The last time they broadcast a car chase people from the town started to get into their cars and go after the man they were chasing. Trucks were jumping in his way. People were waving guns at him. These kinds of incidents need to be handles by trained officers. When people make mistakes their punishment should not be public flogging. Remember the Spanish Inquisition? Should we throw them to lions? How many thousands of years have we been fighting to become civil. This is not a mature idea. When Hollywood writer write those silly stories to warn us about possibles futures. THIS is what they are talking about. In fact I think this idea probably came from someone who watched Bladerunner or Demolition man and missed the point. Please people I urge you to put and end to this. Thanks. Nicholas Juntillapassword
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That should get you into most of them. They also write them on the inside of the cover with a Sharpie.
"Welcome. Welcome, to City 17. You have chosen, or been chosen, to relocate to one of our finest remaining urban centers. I thought so much of City 17, that I elected to establish my administration, here, in the citadel, so thoughtfully provided by our benefactors. I am proud to call City 17 my home. And so, whether you are here to stay, or passing through to parts unknown, welcome, to City 17. It's safer here. "
Understanding is a three edged sword. - Ambassador Kosh Naranek, Babylon 5
The dirty little secret of the electronic billboard industry is that those signs are not terribly secure. Heck, they aren't at all secure. Very few in the electronic billboard industry have proper security practices and those that do have determined that the risk is relatively low when it comes to someone breaking into the sign and changing the message. In addition, even if that happened the liability would likely not be worth the time, effort, or money to include proper security into the billboard, after all, even if the message was obscene the sign company could simply point out they were hacked and all would be forgiven. So where am I going here? Look to the subject. It's likely that the FBI is using off the shelf billboards with nothing special in terms of security so how funny would it be to hack their signs to advertise one of the greatest criminals in American history?
How long will it be before other professions start using the real-time billboards to beg other people to do their jobs for them?
<billboard>
Please for the helping me of sorting array in place in VB.NET. Have big client waiting for this code tomorrow.
Thanks in advance,
Ramesh^H^H^H^H^H^Hsteve@bangaloresoftware.co.in
</billboard>
"I threw up my hands in disgust and wondered if it had been such a good idea to have eaten my hands in the first place."
Now taking bets for if these billboards come complete with Grand Theft Auto 5 banners on the bottom
You put "man" in quotes, presumably to show that the referenced individuals are less than a real man. Does a woman ignoring the situation also qualify as less than a real woman? If not, why not?
You apparently witnessed these occasions yourself. If "not a single person" stopped to help, does that include you? Why didn't you stop to help? Can we conclude that you are less than a real man/woman? If not, why not?
You claim this is a sign of the times. Presumably this means that there was a previous time when things were better. When exactly was this? Was it before or after Luke 10:25-37 was written?
Thanks in advance for your considered reply.
-Graham
I guess all you folks who think this is a wonderful idea don't understand propaganda techniques, have read 1984 or are sheep being led to slaughter..
Where is the America of the unafraid and who has more trust in its people than its manipulative leaders who want to control everything thru fear?
Just in case I wind up on that billboard, I'd like to auction off advertising rights to the clothes I'd wear for my FBI photo. Also, if the death penalty is involved, I will use my final words to sell your company's goods and / or services for the right price.
WANTED: Montag
If it don't GO... chrome it. ~ Frank Banks
This is a way to get PR cloaking of the real aim, BRIGHT DIGITAL BILLBOARDS that
flash and get the attention of drivers from the roads and create an
ugly blight that is resisted by many states and cities. Concentrate on the
FBI bull if you want, it is a move to get these flashy things in your face.
I of course welcome our great US (and immigrant) driver overlords who will never
crash into me when texting on the phone while watching a phone vid and getting
giant flashing messages driven into their eyeballs like a Max-Headroom blipvert.
I don't want to see criminal's faces up in lights on large billboards. I don't care to see criminal faces anywhere. I don't visit the most wanted in the post office. Our streets are already far too cluttered with crap from business. Now we have to see the FBI putting this crap up on our streets?
Let's be real here. The FBI needs to do it's job and catch criminals and let us be. We pay our taxes to have our government mostly out of our lives. They get the money from taxes to do their job. There's no reason I should have to find them more integrated into my life. Soon they'll be presenting this in required spaces on my monitor (spaces where i must set aside screen real-estate for them).
This is bogus and a waste of our tax payer money.
Find another way FBI while staying out of our lives.
You can lead a man with reason but you can't make him think.
We all live in an us vs them mindset. You care more about your friends and family than you do do guy on freeway next to you, it's ok. It's part of being human and there isn't much you can do about it. I know it's presented as humor, but this article on monkeyspheres (http://www.cracked.com/article_14990_what-monkeysphere.html) covers the problem quite well. As long as the system (government/laws) isn't setup to treat them differently, the individuals can continue to show the preferential treatment they give their friends and family without ruining everything. At lest I hope so or we're all boned.
Yes, but you can still tank the sentries.
.4 sec (hispanic) neighborhood near you will still have plenty of pirates.
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George W. of course, George Washington was definitely first.
Flamebait follows because I just can't believe what I read here at times.
/.ers should invest some time in useful introspection.
Incredibly inaccurate statements in the article have inspired an even higher-than-usual level of amazingly inaccurate assessments by the Slashdot intelligentsia.
The FBI isn't installing anything; it is partnering with Clear Channel and being provided with access to Clear Channel's existing, and likely future, inventory of digital billboards. Incredibly, the article makes it sound as if the FBI selected the cities listed in the article for installation. Additionally, the size and weight of those billboards along with the structures needed to support them, the power needed to light them, and the information infrastructure needed to drive them make it impossible for 150 to be installed in 20 U.S. cities in the span of a few weeks.
If some reasonable skepticism and judicious news release searching had been applied before mouthing off, the vast majority of the inane reponses would have never been made. An even better scenario would have been for the moderators to check the facts before taking the sensationalist route.
And everyone here rabidly complains about the threat of a monoculture? Looks like most
It might help if people didn't confuse selective enforcement and racists laws with real crime numbers. Crime and prison numbers are complicated issues, but your example is a canard that ignores class issues--the toll of an enforcement system that targets ghetto kids getting high (frequently in public for various socio-economic reasons), provides them with a crappy defense (and/or has police lie to them to plea bargain a lesser sentence), and then sends them down a completely different life route than the middle class kids doing blow two blocks over.
The system is complicated, violent, and heartless--you shouldn't oversimplify it.
"It might help if young black men stopped committing crime at 10x the national average. "
And I am not quote hunting, but it IS legal for police to lie to suspects to solicit confessions. It is statistically proven that poor people have poorer and minorities have worse results in court for the same crime. And it is anecdotally acknowledged (recently by the supreme court) that sentencing (and thus life options) for crack is unusually high...in fact sentencing for marijuana used to be very high for similar reasons, but send a few kids of state senators to jail for a while and things start to change.
Or, a win a free appearance on Americas Favorite Game Show: The Running Man!
YES!
Hello, this is Killian. Give me the Justice Department, Entertainment Division.
"you are free to do as we tell you!" - Bill Hicks we need you!
This just seems to me like the old wanted posters, just updated with the times. These are violent criminals. Now, if they start putting up pictures of ppl with poor credit ratings, then we can talk.
They are more likely to give the contract to FOX news, if they haven't already.
They'll eventually start putting up "persons of interest" wanted for questioning.
Some of those persons of interest will be completely innocent and have no knowledge of what the FBI is asking. But the negative publicity will cause them grief and likely loss of employment. And they will then sue the FBI and DoJ and get lots of money.
It's happened before without these signs. The signs will make it more likely as well as more public.
One hopes that the implied accusation of having one's face plastered around the country in this way doesn't result in vigilantes taking action. The results could be far worse and no amount of settlement would make up for it.
"I may be synthetic, but I'm not stupid." -- Bishop 341-B
Is this a gutshot reaction or something? Seriously, I don't see what the problem with this is. They're not planning to put up pictures of recently released criminals. They're not planning to put up pictures of sex offenders in your neighborhood. They're not planning to put up pictures telling you to vote Republican. This is to be used same way as America's Most Wanted and backs of milk cartons. At least for now. If that changes, then start complaining.
Give 'em time, they'll do all of those things. They'll take one small step at a time. If you wait for it to happen before you complain it'll be way too late.
for the first "All your base are belong to us" defacement.
Wow are we a little slow on this,we are in the 2008s let get the ball rolling and man there are a lots of dark commets about this, one word to the wise: if you don't do no wrong then you are not part of this.