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California Mayors Demand Surveillance Cams On Crime-Ridden Highways (arstechnica.com)

Posted by msmash on from the improved-security dept.

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.

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  1. Re:The tried and true "whack-a-mole" strategy by fnj · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Most crime is opportunistic, not planned. If you remove the opportunity, you prevent the crime. There is no "law of conservation of crime", so better deterrence does not cause a fixed amount of crime to shift to other areas. The opposite is true: Lower crime in one area allows resources to be refocused in other areas, and lower crime leads to a positive feedback loop of economic recovery, more jobs, and stronger communities, in both the immediate area, and in surrounding neighborhoods.

    It sure must be nice living in whatever imaginary world you inhabit.

  2. Re:How about by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Found the liberal faggot!

  3. Re:How about by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I'll give you "redneck asshole". Proud to be an American. But deluded? No, that's reserved for the drooling liberals who actually think gun banning/confiscation would accomplish anything other than civil war and/or ensuring the only folks that have guns are the real terrorists and criminals. No, thanks. If I wanted to be a victim I'd move to Europe with the rest of the castrated PC apologists.