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But but they’re so nice to sleep under when you’re homeless or on a road trip and allergic to expending capital on motels… Just me?
The first time I saw one of these was at a Fourth of July gathering in a public park. I saw the high blue lights and I figured it was marking some kind of portable police resource center. I had imagined some basic first aid and some officers ready for emergency assistance. I had imagined something that was partly a service and partly community outreach. I had imagined something with positive features.
I was so disappointed to find out it was just cameras. Quite an emotional trip in my head there, from “We’re here to help!” to “We’re watching you, fuckers” in the space of a moment.
But I guess the cops in my suburb are no better than the cops in any other suburb.
"We’re here to help!” and “cops” in the same thought is wild lol
Sometimes the first thought is what the propaganda you grew up with said
We’re here to help “property owners and wealthy people”.
This. This attitude right here. Stop it.
ACAB.
AAAR
Is this your bootlicking pirate impression or ?
What? That cops are dangerous? They are. Your chances of dying go way up whenever you are in the presence of a cop. That’s why I vacate the premises whenever one walks in. You never know if he just got chewed out by his wife, or his boss, or someone else, and he’s looking for someone to take it out on.
Nothing good can come out of being in the presence of a cop.
“This. This attitude right here. Stop it.”
Yeah, so long as the police system in the US is corrupt as hell and intent on militarization and spying on the population: lol no.
Fuck the police
Wait, stop the attitude of thinking can’t help, or stop the attitude of thinking cops can?
No cop wants to help anyone but himself.
I was ready to be like nah that’s just a traffic obs camera or someshit, but I looked it up and it really is a total shitheadomatic-5000
Yeah we’ve got a bunch of these in our neighborhood. It’s a rundown area but this just makes it worse. I’d love nothing more than to mask up and smash this shit
*Mask up and disassemble that shit for parts on the spot. Make it serve the people, rather than spy on them.
It does have some very nice solar panels on it, though.
Oroville, California’s police department pays $45,000 per year for one LVT trailer
That is what’s really insane.
Wtf are these things
Mobile surveillance stations. Typically solar powered with a backup battery, and the inevitably monstrous result of surveillance capitalism.
Half the derelict RVs in Seattle have a power system out of one of these bad boys
They aren’t common in the places I typically shop, at least not yet.
So, around here, when you see these, you know you’re in an unsafe part of town, so they’re essentially a huge advertisement to go shop some place safer and nicer. The privacy invasion aspect of it isn’t even really the biggest factor in regards to where I spend my money.
I’m not saying anyone should do it but in the photo it appears there’s a drainage ditch nearby. It would be real shame if someone with a ski mask and a plateless truck were to relocate it there.
Why not both?
What if I told you most crackheads nowadays are working for the Trump administration?
I can believe most people working for trump are crackheads, but maybe not the other way around.
Lol, for sure. I was being silly.
I’m crashing out daily yall.
Joke’s on you, I get to see both.
What do they do anyway?
Non-consensual colonoscopies
Metaphorically speaking
(They check you all the way up your ass)
I’m my experience you still see crackheads with the cameras.
Technology like this always brings up the balance between safety and privacy. It’s important that communities keep having open conversations about where that line should be.
It isn’t necessarily a linear correlation where you can pick the cutoff that best suits your personality and politics.
The technology and the act of surveillance don’t just slide you up the safety/privacy slope. They carry their own risks that can REDUCE safety while still paying the privacy trade off. And it is not predictable.
And that (plus caring about people) is why I don’t support the Leopards Eating Faces coalition even though I’m an old white educated native-born male USian.
when has it ever helped safety?
this comment sounds like ai
These are on basically every corner of my city
sooo… you just gotta pull 3 cotter pins and it’s rolling down the road on its own?
I wouldn’t recommend it since the thing is covered in cameras
paintballs and slingshots. or well-aimed crackheads.
Or just wear a hoodie and mechanics gloves and don’t drive up to it.
…Or maybe don’t go around vandalizing things
Don’t vandalise the privatised mass surveillance state devices that municipal gov, cops and ICE pay to use and expand the Peter Theil (he knooows about the anti christ btw) MAGA network in order to track everyone they can in the nazi country building up to death camps. Message recieved, copy that fellow citizen.
