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French City To Use CCTV For Parking Fines
horza writes "The city of Nice, France is rolling out 626 CCTV cameras throughout town, giving it one of the highest levels of surveillance in the world (1.8 cameras per 1000 inhabitants). The usual rhetoric was given — that they will be used solely for reducing violent crime — but the city will now begin sending out parking tickets solely based on the CCTV video evidence."
Or you could stop running red lights.
There are 10 kinds of people in this world: those who understand binary, and nine other kinds of people.
As a cyclist, father, neighbour of wheelchairs users and part time pedestrian ...
Ah the good upstanding citizen. How nice for you; completely ignoring that in the beginning these cameras were introduced with the excuse of violent crimes and the usual rhetoric.
But hey, it's the police. Nothing they do can possible be wrong. What's a little lieing, a little more ubiquitous surveillance and a little more pressure on citizens every day. You've got nothing to hide, right?
This selfish, insecure desire to join a posse and stick it to someone is one of the factors causing society's slow descent into an orwellian nightmare. How about facing the elephant in the room, an overreaching government that taxes too much (your excuse to justify the cams), instead of cowardly flapping your hands while saying it's someone elses fault? Cam victims aren't the ones taxing you.
And I think there must be a lot of people who feel like me, otherwise there would be no red-light cameras.
Fallacious reasoning. This does nothing to support your viewpoint.