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California Mayors Demand Surveillance Cams On Crime-Ridden Highways (arstechnica.com)
An anonymous reader shares an Ars Technica report: The 28 shootings along a 10-mile stretch of San Francisco-area highway over the past six months have led mayors of the adjacent cities to declare that these "murderous activities" have reached "crisis proportions." Four people have been killed and dozens injured. These five mayors want California Gov. Jerry Brown to fund surveillance cameras along all the on and off ramps of Interstate 80 and Highway 4 along the cities of El Cerrito, Hercules, Richmond, San Pablo, and Pinole.
Surveillance is not going to stop road rage.
Withholding federal funding for "sanctuary cities"?
Only the State obtains its revenue by coercion. - Murray Rothbard
I see no problem with surveillance cameras on public roads. There is no expectation of privacy there, and there's a legitimate reason for the cameras to be there. Lots of highways have cameras, if nothing else to monitor road conditions. This isn't news for nerds, stuff that matters. It's a non-issue.
Putting cameras on I-80 may deter shootings on the highway but I'm guessing the bullets will start pop-pop-popping up somewhere else.
Timmy (Timothy Donald Cook, CEO, Apple Inc.) pissed off some many people with his stupid self-righteous indignation about digital privacy and encryption that every police department in California has partnered with the local FBI and national FBI to track Timmy 24/7 to get the real dirt that he is hiding!
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Surveillance Cams On Crime-Ridden Highways
That means they're going to do something about civil forfeiture, right?
How about doing some real detective work and finding the real reason why people are doing the shootings? Putting up cameras will just making finding the people responsible easier after the fact. Sure the article says the shootings may be gang related but I find it may be hard to believe that the gangs are just going out to the highway and taking random pot shots. One would hope that after 28 shootings the police would be a lot more proactive but alas that seems to be too much to ask today.
Look it put. All statistic point out that illegals have a lower crime rate than naturally born American. So what would really effectively lowering funding for sanctuary cities do ? If anything if illegals are replaced by naturally born American in those cities, then crime rate would rise. The sad truth is that if you want to lower crime rate, then you better look at program which will help reintegration of ex-con and programs which helps the local find better paid job above minimum wage.
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The term you are looking for is resolution. Sensitivity is for SJW on the prowl.
There were cameras installed in New Hampshire and the people became incensed when they learned about the actions of bureaucrats. We got new legislation passed which banned cameras. That is government ones. They've even been taken down now.
If you don't want to live under an authoritarian hell hell hole dictatorship we have to stop putting up with this BS. If you think we can live without abusive police and violence against the people come to New Hampshire. Liberty-minded people are making a home here and we've got thousands of migrants to the cause already. I moved in March and there are lots of people coming. All over southern New Hampshire there are activist centers and meet ups multiple times a week. Even nightly.
We're pushing for legalization of weed, elimination of things like drivers licenses, vehicular registration, license plates (of which none of these things will make us any safer and are more or less just another tax and means of control, we already don't require car insurance in NH and the world hasn't ended), reduction of or elimination of police (there are better systems we're already developing to deal with threats and other matters, see cell 411), tax payer funded public schools (not that we are against assisting those in need, but we don't need the government doing that), pro-gun (hardly conservative), pro-gay (against the concept of state marriage, but otherwise supporting equal rights for gays to marry, etc), etc.
She says that it's apparently gang initiation stuff (or perhaps that's what the media is telling her) but it doesn't sound particularly nice. A lot of "shoot the random person from the overpass, to prove you're gangster"
Who knows what the truth is but they need to nail the people doing it.
I'm sure the cameras can produce perfectly usable footage of cars moving at 2mph.
It's gangs. Surveillance is not the answer. Pot legalization will take *some* of the revenue from the gangs, but not all. Also, if alcohol prohibition is our guide, the gangs won't just leave or turn legit. They'll actually get worse as they compete for their slice of a smaller vice pie, and we can't legalize all vice such as human traffic and sexual abuse of minors.
You see gang activity all over California. In my neck of the woods, there's a tag war of Nortenos vs. Surenos. I have taken to calling these tags "Trump campaign signs".
Your country probaly dosen't have a vast gulag prison system, over 2 million people behind bars, or police that dress in heavy body armor, carry big and powerful guns, and burst in homes (no knock) and kill children because they raided the wrong house two doors down from the person growing pot or they were acting on an anonymous "tip". I don't trust the US gov't enough for me to believe they should have these kinds of toys.
Could he be in Europe? Or maybe the United States, Canada or even Latin America? Asia, Africa or maybe in Antartica? Think and think this through
This has been a more recent problem, and it IS gang related. Some relevant information about the problem... there are 2 feuding gangs, one from Richmond, and another from Vallejo that are having some kind of feud between each other (don't know which specific gangs). The corridor of the freeway and towns mentioned are for the most part, all the towns in the stretch between these two locations. El Cerrito is just West of Richmond, and if you travel east, there is Richmond, San Pablo, El Sobrante, Pinole, Hercules, Rodeo, Crocket, and then the bridge with Vallejo on the other side. The majority of these shootings are happening mostly at night, not during normal driving hours and almost all of them have been in this specific corridor (with a couple outliers happening near Berkeley).
These are NOT people on foot taking pot-shots at passing cars or anything of the like. These are mostly targeted, and are between multiple cars on the road, not on foot, so the perpetrators shoot and then just drive away and get off the freeway down the road. In some of these cases, one gang will in Richmond will spot a rival gang member on their turf, and chase/follow them, until the rival members gets on the freeway toward vallejo and the ensuing shooting occurs on the freeway. I think most of the shootings that I'm aware of, have happened on the East bound side, which indicates travel from Richmond toward Vallejo.
I've also heard rumors that one of the reasons the shootings have moved to the freeways, and the 2 gangs are attacking there is because the freeway does not have any "Shot-Spotter" system installed, which some of these cities in that corridor of the freeway do. I don't know if this is accurate, but it does make some sense. So in other words, if one gang intends to attack another gang IN Richmond, the shot-spotter system would detect it and they have a more likely chance of getting caught. If they follow the person onto the freeway, then open fire on them, then the Shot-Spotter systems are useless. So this could already be a case of one "safety system" pushing the violence out of the area where it has naturally occurred in the past, to a new area that does not have the same "safety system". So there is the real possibility that putting some system in place on the freeway will just push it somewhere else, maybe a worse place (for those not involved).
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Or is it spic gangstas too ?
The reason why the european nations (and australia japan and new zealand) were utopias when compared to the US is just that....no niggers.
Australia is the US with no niggers or spics, just decent white folk. Of course, over the last 20 or so years even the euros and aussies have succumbed to the PC movement and have opened up to tje brown skinned hordes, and are starting to resemble the US more and more every day. Look at Iceland and Finland or Sweden. Nice places full of white people that let the shitskins in and next thing its rising crime, rapes through the roof, drugs and violence.
Its a pity the US cant just get rid of all its subhumans. Itd be a perfect place to live then, instead of one of the worst.
I would say that these cameras do far less to prevent a crime before it occurs than they do to catch and convict the perp after the damage is done assuming that the video footage is clear enough that a jury of 12 morons can make it out.
It's the same with far too many laws and illustrates the problem with politicians trying to do anything about crime. All they care about is being able to say that they did something as opposed to nothing therefore they should be reelected. There are already plenty of simple methods that would work and they usually involve increased police patrols.
We have been having these shooting on our expressways in Chicago for the past 5 months. This is a trend. Gangs follow cars onto the highway, and shoot, and the getaway is easy vs. doing it on the side streets in the neighborhood.
Sumdumass rightfully calls out what from this day forward will be known as "the straw-penis" argument!
Despite California having some of the most Draconian gun control law in the US, their murder rate is still higher than Western states with far fewer gun laws: OR, WA, UT, MT, WY. ND, SD, CO and TX and they are closely tied with AZ. So it is becoming clear with this move that they are want to disarm the citizens and promote the Bog-Brother State, so It isn't about guns, it is about the state versus liberty after all.
They strapped huge guns on to their tanks.
In modern Russia they all have dash cams.
Some of the footage is shocking. Tanks driving through highways. Tbones. People jumping into the freeway. Bikes being crushed.
Want safety? Get dash cams for all cars. The idiots with guns will stop once they realise that they will end up on youtube.
You are intentionally misconstruing the argument or intentionally misstating the difference between the criminal those statistic tracks and illegally being in the US, whichever you should never have been modded insightful. They are illegal and criminal for immigration laws. But looking at violent and petty crime, theft, murder, rape, drug trafficking, prostitution and all that jazz which really count when speaking of a tract of land with too many shooting they have lower rate than the average American. You may not LIKE that fact , and it is certainly an inconvenient fact for many people especially those liking trumps, but it stays a statistical verifiable fact.
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They don't give a fuck. Post it on liveleak later. Props. Status.
Who is responsible for these crimes? Could it possibly be NON-WHITES? Why are they in WHITE countries anyway? Because the JEW knows he will eventually be expelled if white people keep their countries all white. So the JEW throws millions of non-whites at you, rather like a criminal fleeing from police in a car will throw rubbish out the back of the car to block up the road as they chase them.
Hidden cams surely work out better than conspicuous cams. Making crime a worse and worse path for an individual is a great way to reduce crime in the long term. And we need those cams in the finest neighborhoods as well as in the ghetto areas. Those cams have two benefits. First they can lead to the arrest of the guilty . Next they can protect people from incorrect arrests. A good cam system can provide your location at a certain time and many times the accused is no where near the crime site. And then there are the lives and property saved by making crime next to impossible.