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Comment by uri4 | Hacker News Reader

Face recognition camera at entrance, shared database between stores, two door turnikets, armed guards at entrance... Boom! Problem solved!

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That sounds kinda horrible.

Welcome to your friendly, neighborhood corporate Big Box store. Admittedly, I only saw the armed guards(off-duty LEOs, sometimes in uniform) in L.A. and Houston.

Quite frankly, that will result in a lot of blacks being locked up, which is something SF is trying quite hard to avoid. Remember, this is the same city that decided it wasn't in the public's best interests to share videos of crime in BART stations in order to avoid perpetuating negative stereotypes[0].

0: https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/bart-withholding-s...

That sounds ironic

Not really, this system is private and does not really on police. Criminals are denied entry. If they become violent, managed by security.

> Criminals are denied entry.

And said businesses will blasted all over the news for being racist (because there's going to be a _very obvious_ pattern of who is denied entry). Which takes us back to square one. No business is going to want to be a party to the inevitable shitstorm that will come of it.

Are you suggesting blacks are more likely to be criminals? That is impossible... and frankly in a few years nobody will care.

If anything this system can be promoted and sold as barrier from right wing extremism. Now you can physically ban tump supporters and antivagers from your shop!

Edit: also shop owners and security can be black...

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