Hacker News Reader

Comment by kasey_junk | Hacker News Reader

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.

View on HN

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

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

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

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.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com