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tomtom5858 t1_j4j091t wrote

Reply to comment by Hugegodamnrat in Surveillance city: The New York City Police Department can use more than 15,000 cameras to track people using facial recognition in Manhattan, Bronx and Brooklyn by glawgii

I'd advise you look into the Baader-Meinhof phenomenon. The media talking about it causes you to notice what's there more, rather than there actually being an increase in crime.

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Hugegodamnrat t1_j4j6b7s wrote

I did check the crime rate index and my neighborhood is doing significantly shittier recently (as a exception), so maybe that explains my perspective. That doesn’t speak for the whole nation though so you’re right on that.

Increasing or decreasing crime, we can still agree that this is scary, a waste of taxpayer money, and nothing good will come out of this sort of technology becoming more commonplace.

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