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NYC Police Comm'r: Privacy Is 'Off the Table' After Boston Bombs

Posted by timothy on from the for-your-own-safety dept.

An anonymous reader writes "New York City Police Commissioner Ray Kelly thinks that now is a great time to install even more surveillance cameras hither and yon around the Big Apple. After the Boston Marathon bombing, the Tsarnaev brothers were famously captured on security camera footage and thereby identified. That just may soften up Americans to the idea of the all-seeing glass eye. 'I think the privacy issue has really been taken off the table,' Kelly gloats."

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  1. Who watches the watchers.... by gandhi_2 · · Score: 5, Funny

    ... drinking big gulp sugary drinks?

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  2. Don't bring NCIS into this business! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    YOU LEAVE ABBY OUT OF THIS!

  3. Re:no problem by Hognoxious · · Score: 1, Funny

    I'd rather die in my boots than live on my knees.

    Excellent choice of words there. But like most internet tough guys you've never been in anything worse than a schoolyard punch-up, and until you have it's all big talk.

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  4. Re:That will not happen. by Minwee · · Score: 5, Funny

    You provided the per-capita murder rate. Can you also provide the per-capita for people beat up by police and for illegal searches?

    According to publicly available police records, both rates have been at or below zero since 1776.

  5. Re:What we learned... by Vinegar+Joe · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'm not really worried about this. Seriously, Obama isn't going to let these fascist New York assholes do anything to hurt us.

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