[specialist]

Potential upsides. Rarely realized.

I'd rather pay for more cops.

These technologies are just used to put more distance between the corporate profits and accountability to the communities effected.

As a history lesson, dehumanizing intelligence services, preferring satellites and wiretaps to HUMINT, has crippled our capabilities. But it did enrich defense contractors, so it's all good.

[tptacek]

This whole system deployed at scale appears to cost 0.5% of what patrol does. There's no reason cities can't do this and ramp up patrol.

[rayiner]

Paying for more cops has its own problems. In a high-cop low-crime environment, e.g. most suburbs, cops spend most of their time harassing people for minor things or figuring out ways to increase ticket revenue.