Sounds reasonable to me. If the police want to put up a camera, then the police should put up a camera.
Offloading their legal responsibilities to a third party company is shitty.
Sounds reasonable to me. If the police want to put up a camera, then the police should put up a camera.
Offloading their legal responsibilities to a third party company is shitty.
Yes. We're in an high technology and information age. Police should be well-versed and capable of understanding the technologies and informations that people use.
> I think we can all see why that would be a terrible idea.
I don't.
> Police are like any other government agency or business in that they contract with the private sector for a variety of services that are not in their area of expertise.
Why shouldn't police (or some law enforcement agency) be capable of operating and maintaining law enforcement technologies?
Nobody is saying cops should be writing software, but Flock shouldn't have access to the data and analysis tools it has right now. If American police can afford to be armed similarly to a small army, surely they can pay to run a couple of servers in a basement somewhere.
I'm surprised the USA is letting this happen given the culture of individual freedom that seems to have traditionally driven American laws.
I disagree. Businesses have their own internal software development teams.
Why shouldn't cops?