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As a car-less NYC resident .. I'm pissed that Texas started this bounty hunting trend. The government should not be socializing law enforcement, nor paying to pit citizens against each other.

This is a dangerous and slippery slope.

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They're not enforcing it, they're simply incentivizing tip offs. Not much different than any other crime tip system the government has run. It's still up to the government to actually enforce it once the evidence has been submitted. If the agency wanted to, they could simply discard/ignore all footage.

That's a distinction without a difference. Pitting citizen against citizen is not a healthy state of affairs.

Hate to break it to you, but the people are already against one another. This is just harnessing that energy in service of something that's at least productive. This is turning into the Decade Of Karen. Might as well motivate these nosy, belligerent people towards spotting actual lawbreaking rather than harassing barbecuers or minorities jogging in the park.

>Hate to break it to you, but the people are already against one another.

I'm aware. We need less of that, not more of it.

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