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I live in NYC. People used to be afraid of double parking. Like you I regularly see the same bat-shit driving and no one seems to care to say or do anything. It's bonkers.

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NYC should have been the model to follow. Instead of flock cameras, cities should have bounty systems: record a video of a speed violation with a plate, and get 10% of the ticket revenue. Enforcement would explode.

We could of had a system where we used the technology we already had in our hands to democratize speed enforcement, instead of corporatizing it

Interesting. 'But your honor, it is AI enhanced. I wasn't speeding.'

'Weird, I got this footage here from another angle and it shows you did. We also got the data from your car. You were speeding son.'

Pitting people against each other in the service of the state is likely to cause problems at scale and in the long run.

Frankly, I think it's a miracle that nobody has been beaten into a coma or killed over NYC's bounty program yet.

NYC already tried Snitching as a Service during COVID, and it went terribly. I grew up with a neighbor who would constantly record people and call the cops over every little perceived infraction. Everyone in the neighborhood hated her, including the cops. I do not want to live in a society that encourages those people.

I definitely agree it can go too far. Maybe only allow bounties for active, dangerous crimes like speeding, drunk driving, and racing?

No Stasi. No Salem witch trials. Thank you. Do not need to retread that ground.

How do you imagine this working in a world where video editing is so easy?

Seen this recently, the Citizens filming other people and their cars in public, presumably for their crimestopper social media app.

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