[fahrradflucht]

Do you really think these things can be solved by surveillance? I doubt people like you are describing are deterred by that and I don’t think DHS will start hunting possible homeless beggars because they have recordings.

What actually increases safety and one of the reason public transport was / felt safer in the past is more personal. If there are train guards on the ride or platform managers at the station, they can actually intervene. No surveillance necessary. But that obviously requires way more public transport funding.

[stickfigure]

Stuff like this happens: https://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/BART-takeover-robbery-5...

Hard to imagine how to solve it without surveillance.

[Olphs]

> Hard to imagine how to solve it without surveillance.

Really? Hopefully not

How about giving support for people who need it? How about giving teens options to do something else than roam the streets and gang up? How about giving support to stop generational drug use? How about showing these kids that they have a brighter future ahead if they choose to act on it? How about figuring out how to fix the massive polarisation of opinions, beliefs, income, opportunities etc.?

[stickfigure]

Sure, get to work on that.

In the mean time, I'd just like to be able to ride BART without getting mugged.

[Hello71]

according to that article, the train and station already had surveillance cameras. the current post and comment thread are about surveillance microphones; how would that help with the investigation in your article, where we can reasonably assume that the robbers were shouting things like "open your bag" and "give me your wallet", and interview witnesses to confirm our assumption?