[tptacek]

No it won't. (Source: got legislation for this, pretty good bead on who the stakeholders are).

This is all Internet logic. It's fun to talk about destroying cameras as a vector for public policy, ergo, by the First Law of Message Boards, that must be a viable strategy. Reader, it is not. Nobody's going to blink at these costs, but residents who supported or were on the fence about the cameras are now negatively polarized against doing anything about them.

The cringe-ier thing here is the clear message being sent by many commentators, incl. the author of this post, that nobody's ever thought of breaking surveillance cameras before. Y'all, this is literally a meme.

[NDlurker]

What if we just zip tie bags over them while working on legislation?

[tptacek]

Just break the cameras. Nobody cares (I mean, local police will care, in that they will arrest you if they can, but that's about the extent of it.)

[NDlurker]

Yes, local police would be my concern in this situation

[new_account_100]

The Judge, the Justice System, and a potential prison sentence should factor into your concern in this situation.

[RobLach]

That makes sense.