[pyre]

> Sure, but that's not what the petition is asking for. It's asking for federal legislation to require it.

The petitions are not bills that people are submitting to the floor of Congress. To say, "well the petition didn't ask for this specific implementation," seems a bit disingenuous. Federal legislation requiring it to receive specific funding would effectively be "federal legislation requiring it" so I'm unsure why you're splitting hairs.

[baddox]

> The petitions are not bills that people are submitting to the floor of Congress.

True. They're not much of anything else, either.

[kasey_junk]

Mostly because, this particular petition seems like the worst sort of political polly-anna-ism. That is, it shows a lack of political, constitutional and tactical understanding of how the US works. A much more effective solution seems to be local action in this case. If you could get a couple of big city police departments to install cameras the domino effect would be tremendous and local action will be the easier route!