Comment by lm28469
5 months ago
> In less than 10 years, Flock’s cameras, airborne and fixed, will eradicate almost all crime in the U.S.
It'll fit right in with the fully self driving cars we'll get in "two years" since 2012, and the manned flights to mars we'll get in "five years" since 2015
American version of capitalism and Chinese versions of socialisme seem to slowly converge, the future will be fun!
The difference being that you won't get self-driving cars any time soon (at least a decade away), while countries and cities such as China, Singapore, Dubai and London already have mass surveillance at an unprecedented scale. Personal freedoms are already being infringed upon in these countries, and saying the wrong thing publicly will land you behind bars.
Oh yeah sure they have the mass surveillance, did they "eradicate crime" though?
The US can already be defined as a surveillance state in many aspects, and it could be made muche worse for sure, what I doubt is that it'll solve criminality
No, mass surveillance will never eradicate crimes.
UK (or London) has about 99% coverage. It means jack shit without enforcement, and let me tell you, there are many streets out there with junkies smoking crack without any issues.
My girlfriend in LA is scared to go to the bus stop. There used to be two drunks around noon, and now they even set up a camp and there are more people. Cops are doing fuck all about it.
CCTVs mean nothing.
Nazi Germany, with the most repressive police state in history, couldn’t. The criminals just learned to work within the shadow of the Gestapo.
Stalin’s USSR couldn’t, but they made it illegal to admit crime existed, so maybe that “worked”?