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[–] Guidy@lemmy.world 1 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

Agreed. I have a compromise. They can put in all the cameras they want - but absolutely cannot, upon pain of losing 50% of their total budget for a year per violation - outsource or subcontract the operations or anything akin to the operations of the system at all. Hire IT staff to run it, pay people to process the data. No you can't use AI. Do this or fuck off, Seattle.

I will never ever forget when a red light camera came to Redmond, at the turn leading to driving through Microsoft's campus. Can you guess what happens when you piss of a bunch of smart motivated people who have money and aren't necessarily the kindest people? That shit got challenged and removed after about six months. I still see the stump/the concrete it was embedded when when I go to my buddy's house, and it warms my heart literally every. single. fucking. time.