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by culi 1219 days ago
A lot of poor, majority black and brown, neighborhoods have community organized "cop watches". They usually play a role similar to what the Black Panthers did. Just show up when a cop pulls someone over and sit there and watch (and nowadays, record) just to let them know the public's eye is on them

It'd be amazing to see surveillance capitalism turned against itself like this

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I keep wondering when citizen ALPR will start augmenting some of these roles.

I don't know if it's universal, but here government-owned vehicles always have an X in the license plate, so you wouldn't even need a database, just alert on any X-plate entering the neighborhood.

Could detect strobing lights with the same cameras, and summon the Watchers automatically.