Thank GOD we had Flock their to PROTECT this Woman!CATCH the Stalker BEFORE this Could happen!Keep her SAFE! Find the Stalker AFTER he Murdered a Woman in Public!
I've always wondered how surveillance could prevent crimes. It'd be more akin to pre-crimes, no? Most actions are completely legal up until the moment they're not.
In theory if you know that someone is going to commit a crime, you could send police to the scene to, in the best case, frighten them off or to at least be able to react quickly and hopefully prevent harm.
I don't think that it works, or that it would be worth the intrusion into everyone's personal lives even if it did, but that's the idea.
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0ndead@infosec.pub · 14 pts · 4d
Article reads as a win for flock, but it’s a failure of police for not taking this woman’s stalking seriously enough.
Quexotic@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 1d
Not to me, though. I mean, she's dead, right? That doesn't seem like a win.
Failed copaganda
0ndead@infosec.pub · 1 pts · 1d
Yeah, but “thanks to flock they caught the guy” is the win they’re chasing
Quexotic@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 18h
Well, I'd wager it'd only be effective for those who they've already convinced, those with poor reasoning capabilities.
BigMacHole@thelemmy.club · 12 pts · 3d
Thank GOD we had Flock their to
PROTECT this Woman!CATCH the Stalker BEFORE this Could happen!Keep her SAFE!Find the Stalker AFTER he Murdered a Woman in Public!pilferjinx@piefed.social · 2 pts · 3d
I've always wondered how surveillance could prevent crimes. It'd be more akin to pre-crimes, no? Most actions are completely legal up until the moment they're not.
ahornsirup@feddit.org · 4 pts · 3d
In theory if you know that someone is going to commit a crime, you could send police to the scene to, in the best case, frighten them off or to at least be able to react quickly and hopefully prevent harm.
I don't think that it works, or that it would be worth the intrusion into everyone's personal lives even if it did, but that's the idea.