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Of course, any excuse to surveil us more.

How much of SF’s crime is committed by car owners?

I think it's mentioned in the write-up that the issue is not necessarily the car owners but the car themselves. I guess in San Francisco criminals do not make their getaway on mass transit

They do use stolen cars though and when you call police to report yours as stolen, they don't give a shit. Even if you have a tracking device in it.

Yeah, maybe that is something that should be changed, eh?

The first 2 shootings of the year, both in SOMA, were both committed by people driving cars, presumably car owners.

Oh please, you have a right to privacy in your own homes, but not in shared roads where your driving can endanger others. I welcome this news and hopefully one day we have traffic cameras across every block in the country, that have already proven to reduce speeding/reckless and driving, and to directly impact the ~40k deaths we have on the roads each year.

I 100% agree about traffic enforcement cameras.

The article makes it sound like these cameras are not intended to enforce traffic laws but rather track the location of every car it scans to aid in solving other types of crime.

Read the article. These aren't speed cameras. They're exclusively for tracking location and movement of vehicles. Nobody is going to get a ticket for them. You're only going to get a knock at your door by the cops when someone steals your license plate and uses them to commit a crime.

Also you're completely wrong about the effectiveness of traffic enforcement cameras. Go read some stats on them some time. Read about the bribes and corruption and how these companies have cities shorten yellow lights. And how they pretty much are only used to milk people out of their money and send that money to the private companies who operate them.

Right what's the problem you can simply stay at home your whole life

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