Maybe you could reach out to Flock directly and ask them to install cameras in your kitchen and bedroom too (for crime reduction reasons).

Enforcement is one way to reduce crime. Another way is to reduce poverty. Which will we choose? One road leads to South Africa. The other, Denmark.

These cameras aren't even enforcement, just surveillance.

I think we all know even with the best technology in the world the police aren't gonna get off their lazy asses if your car gets stolen. This is just a way to burn money.

Can you elaborate upon the kinds of crime reduction that these systems provide?

Isn't it obvious?

> License plate is reported to police associated with a crime.

> Cop looks up plate number

> Flock Camera shows general status and location of that license plate.

> Cops find the car involved with the crime, preventing further criminality.

So they're useless for crimes not involving a reported license plate? Sounds like a pretty worthless marginal gain. The Chinese have done it better since their mass surveillance apparatus isn't contingent on reported license plates, or even the involvement of a vehicle. Start a fight on the street and they'll find you. Is America really this incompetent that they can't match a 10+ year old system?

No, that's just one of the things you can search on.

So what you're saying is that I can report your[1] car as being associated with a crime, and the police will show up wherever you and/or your car is and treat you like a criminal?

I love this for you!

[1] the literal you, as well as the figurative

No, the comment is not saying that. You appear to have invented it.

If you think there's something wrong with my interpretation, then please explain what that is to me. I'm not seeing a problem with it.

(I may, in fact, be an idiot. Help me out here.)

Sure, you made up a bunch of things the comment doesn't say, and then said "so you're saying?". No, they are not saying.

You're just as [un]qualified to interpret the intent of the comment that I replied to as I am myself, comrade.

Neither of us wrote it.

We're policing future crime now?

I think they made a movie about that.