From: spike66 (spike66@attbi.com)
Date: Sun Sep 08 2002 - 18:26:29 MDT
spike66 wrote:
> Still more obvious, if the surveillance successfully
> bags the right guy, the poor have their own neighborhoods
> cleansed of the yahoos doing the crime. This is a win-win
> for the innocent. So why aren't we doing it? spike
Ooops I realized a weakness in my own arguement.
If we develop the tech to bag any crime that can be
recognized from an external view, such as robbery,
murder, mugging, rape, etc, then poor neighborhoods
could be cleansed of these plagues. If they were, the
rents would skyrocket, displacing the poor. I had in
mind East Palo Alto, which is the last bastion of low
rents in the valley. It is so ideally located, that if we
could work out the little problem of the high risk of
getting killed by going in there, then the yuppy vermin
would swarm in. The poor lose again.
Suggestions?
spike
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