Posted on 04/01/2024 9:28:06 AM PDT by marshmallow
In 2023, Oakland, California was the site of 14,554 motor vehicle thefts, an all-time high for the city. With increases in burglaries and robberies as well, violent and property crimes are higher in Oakland than they have been since the early 1990s.
The California city of Oakland has approved a plan to install 480 surveillance cameras equipped with automatic license plate readers in an effort to fight rising crime in the city. Most of the cameras, 290, will be deployed inside the city while the remaining 180 will be placed on freeways.
The cameras will provide law enforcement with the ability to track vehicles as they drive around the area, and can track them using license plates, car type, color, decals, and bumper stickers.
“We’re equipping law enforcement with the tools they need to effectively combat criminal activity and hold perpetrators accountable,” California Governor Gavin Newsom said on Friday. “[We are] building safer, stronger, communities for all Californians.”
The plan, part of a multimillion-dollar contract with private surveillance company Flock Safety and the California Highway Patrol, was approved by the Oakland Privacy Advisory Commission in October. It was a reversal for the commission, which advised in 2019 that the city terminate any automatic license plate readers.
Flock Safety is a Georgia-based private company that advertises its goal of creating a nationwide surveillance network. One of its features is the ability to add your cameras to their network, making it easily accessible for law enforcement nationwide. Flock Safety co-founder Garrett Langley has set a goal of 25% of all crimes in the country being solved using the Flock Safety network.
Already, Flock Safety has a significant foothold in the Bay area. A growing number of Homeowners Associations, including in the Oakland area, have already contracted Flock Safety to surveil their neighborhoods. Already.......
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If the DA prosecutes, if not then a pointless waste of time and money.
If they don’t put them in jail, what is the point?
It’s almost like this is what they (the deep state) wanted all along.
The perceptible drop in crime will be negligible.
Stolen or destroyed in 3, 2, 1
So they simply want to be crime voyeurs.
Interesting.
I’m sure they’re a lot of hackers out there just dying to hack this system and make the cameras inoperable.
To persecute those they deem guilty. Be it legally or the release of specific video.
yeah sure- they have learned that nudity can be seen when the homeless squat to poop- so that is why they are installing the cameras-
Black Civil Rights leaders would march against this is Republican did it. But now that the Leftists, who are fed up with the crime from Leftist Progressives, are finally taking action.
Then there are the British Bladerunners disabling/distroying ULEZ cameras. Even silly string or a sticker over the lens does the trick.
But we were told it’s Korean automakers Hyundai and Kia cars are too easy to steal…. 🧐. What else are they going to use those cameras for?
“ In 2023, Oakland, California was the site of 14,554 motor vehicle thefts, an all-time high for the city.”
“… the ability to track vehicles as they drive around the area, and can track them using license plates, car type, color, decals, and bumper stickers.”
Just to show that the idiots in Oakland can’t put 2 and 2 together. The criminals won’t care if the vehicle is tracked because it’s stolen.
Hmmm? The Bay Area has 80, 280, 380, 580, 680, 780, and 880.
There is no 480 there.
They are in jail - Oakland, like other blue former cities, has long since become an open-air prison/psych ward/reservation.
In another twist of irony, those cameras will be monitored by a private company, and since that company will be hired under a Didn't Earn It (DEI) contract, the watchers (aka "The Man") will be black and mostly female.
We can't put them in jails, we closed half our jails because we don't want to jail anyone anymore, it's racist.
The cameras will be used to find and arrest any store owners attempting to restrain or harass gangs of armed shoplifters who are pilfering their merchandise.
This is about public safety the same way green policy is about saving the planet or CoupFlu policy is about protecting public health...
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