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News & ArtsWednesday, November 17, 2010
City Voyeurism and Cal Anderson Park
Posted by Charles Mudede on Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 9:07 AM
A person who is a opposed to the Urban League's recent request for the installment of surveillance cameras in "hot spots" in the Rainier Valley made this point about the cameras that were recently removed from Cal Anderson Park:
Images from the cameras were never used to solve a crime, said Shaw, [the deputy director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Washington.]A surveillance camera is never the cold and old eye of God—it's the heated eye of a human being.In fact, surveillance footage revealed that one of the camera's operators had used one of the park cameras to zoom in on a woman in a short skirt, Shaw said.
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Dont need CCTV to be a voyeur, just walk around with a digital camera during the summer, thats what I do.
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Poor white, Cap Hill liberals, they hate surveillance cameras because they might show them at 2am getting blowjobs from anonymous 16 year old boys fresh in from Iowa.
Black people want them to deter mayhem and murder. Who wins? The blow jobbers.
Black people want them to deter mayhem and murder. Who wins? The blow jobbers.
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This is consistent with the experience in Britain, where there are now more CCTV cameras than people, but they are virtually useless for solving or prosecuting crimes. Yes, upon further review, you can tell that a guy walked past, but you can't identify him worth a damn. They have had plenty of similar inappropriate uses as well. They're worthless devices.
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Not true, they are extremley useful for catching dog owners failure to pick up their dogs poop.
Not true, they are extremley useful for catching dog owners failure to pick up their dogs poop.
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@6 Well that certainly justifies the financial cost of the entire system. They caught the mean old cat lady!
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@7,
Indeed.
Although now I recall that they also caught a vigilante bike rider who was slashing car tires at random.
Indeed.
Although now I recall that they also caught a vigilante bike rider who was slashing car tires at random.
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All you have to do is have a lawyer with an IQ over 75 to tell you to say "it's not me in the picture". Boom, the evidence is useless. You can't identify anybody for real. The only reason they caught the cat bin-stuffer was because she was a nutter without a lawyer. Not that the howling /b/tards would have cared whether they had ahold of the right person or not.
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@6 -- and that was a private camera installed by the homeowners -- not a city council or law enforcement agency.
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