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Rule 1. Do not comply in advance. Do not accept it as inevitable. Do not give away your power without friction.

tptacek writes on here sometimes about their activity in local politics. This perspective (from my reading) is that it has a lot of strong support that is difficult to oppose, not that we should give up. Read "give it a year or two" as "give it a year or two of things going as they are".

He also lives in a "nice" suburb of Chicago IIRC

I strongly suspect a neighborhood in Chicago composed of the kind of demographics the "nice" suburb's residents are worried about would have a very different take on the issue.

And by "strongly suspect" I mean "know because I live in that kind of neighborhood in a different city in a different state".

> strongly suspect a neighborhood in Chicago composed of the kind of demographics the "nice" suburb's residents are worried about would have a very different take on the issue

I live in Jackson Hole. None of my neighbours knew what these were. They’re getting taken out.

Don’t presume what folks are worried about without asking them.

It's genuinely funny how wrong you are about this, or about what my intersection with Flock is. Go on, keep extrapolating!

I’m pretty confused by the innuendo in the posters comment to even get what they are saying, but I can report from the south side of chicago that surveillance cameras are largely popular across demographics.

He's suggesting that Oak Park is supportive of Flock cameras because we're afraid of Black folks.

Not black, poor, perhaps "methy" even. Any crossover with black is purely coincidental.

I don't think you're racist in the slightest.

You don't know anything about me or about Oak Park. We killed our Flock contract. I did a good bit of the policy lifting to make that happen, including co-writing our initial pilot ALPR police General Order to lock them down and set up the transparency reporting that enabled us to make the case for killing them. But, keep going, I'm interested in what else you can confidently state about my work.

Speaking as a person of color, the government Oak Park prosecuted me for reasons of my blackness which is racist. The controversey that followed, if you ask me, is why the cameras got shot down. Transparency and not being big brother is just a convenient excuse to put a positive spin on it, as politicians do.

Knowing in extreme and annoying detail exactly the series of events that led us to kill our Flock contract, I do not believe this is at all true. I don't think trolling is a good plan here.

That's terrible! Nobody would ever say that out loud.

Yeah there's a bigger problem with the claim than that.

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