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by pipejosh 105 days ago
$2 million a year to run 244,000 searches that advanced 361 cases... That's about $5,500 per useful search.

Meanwhile every car that drove past one of those cameras got logged, timestamped, and stored. These things aren't not law enforcement, they're mass surveillance with a badge.

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Also that $2 mil is the cost of the system, and doesn’t include all those man hours spent running unproductive queries.
>These things aren't not law enforcement, they're mass surveillance with a badge.

That sounds like ChatGPT.