SF’s crime collapsed. So did its resistance to surveillance
sfstandard.com
San Francisco has 98 police drones, 400 AI license plate readers, and a billionaire-funded real-time crime center. Crime is down 44%. Nobody seems to mind — yet. But experts say the city is running an experiment with no control group and no plan to slow down.
  • PierceTheBubble@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    (1) defund the police, (2) act surprised when crime rises, (3) respond with surveillance tech: the good ol’ problem-reaction-solution paradigm