At 11:11 PM 12/11/94, Sandy Sandfort wrote:
... Yes, that's right - keep surveillance cameras going on _yourself_. If you're not doing anything illegal, you've got nothing to fear from taping everything you do.
I don't like this idea one bit. I agree with Tim that it is the first step on a very slippery slope.
... I expect that it will be difficult to convince our Nation's Finest to adopt this new technology - though I'm sure they'd be happy to apply it to parolees and those serving on probation....
It would be difficult for the cops to reject it. After all, it definitely benefits vast majority of good cops. It only hurts that teensy-tiny minority who violate people's rights. Right?
I'm not sure if you are being sarcastic here, although I don't think you are. That seems like a slippery slope all it's own, there. I don't like it when someone tells me "what do you have to worry about if you aren't breaking any laws," and I don't like it when someone says that about the cops too. That argument is awfully scary. Yeah, if the cops didn't want to accept such a thing, it might be worth calling them on their hypocrisy for applying that argument to citizens and not to police. But I don't think it would be wise to use the "what do you have to worry about if you aren't breaking any laws," argument too often.