Comment What's the problem (Score 0, Flamebait) 361
People complain, but what's the real problem here? Why are people so afraid of image recognition cameras if their picture is not in the database? I've never molested, assaulted, or robbed anyone. I know my picture is not in the database. Is yours?
Missing kids. You guys joke that these kids are not missing if they walk into the office, but there are lots of missing kids going to schools. A mother or father may tell them the other parent is dead and flee with the child during a custody dispute. An abductor may steal a child to raise as their own. There's nothing funny about that.
Sex offenders. Most known pedophiles have court orders barring them from approaching a school, let alone entering one, but how about when they move to another state and try to become a teacher at your kid's school? Is that funny? It happens.
Whenever the system gets a positive ID from the database, an operator compares the database picture with the camera picture. The system is designed to narrow down the people to look at. The police are not going to come barreling in every time the camera has a false positive.
Sometimes the cameras miss a known sex offender. Doesn't the fact that the offenders know these cameras exist deter them from entering our schools? What about the offenders the cameras don't miss?
There is nothing Orwellian about these cameras. They are not trying to track the movements of every American citizen. They are trying to protect our children. You can cry about civil rights all you want, but this is the real world. Bad people are out there and they will, through subterfuge, sneak into your children's schools, your financial records, and even your homes.
When they want to put the camera in my home, I'll be worried. Otherwise, I say put the cameras out if there's a chance that they can reunite a missing child with its family or prevent the molestation of another innocent child.
Missing kids. You guys joke that these kids are not missing if they walk into the office, but there are lots of missing kids going to schools. A mother or father may tell them the other parent is dead and flee with the child during a custody dispute. An abductor may steal a child to raise as their own. There's nothing funny about that.
Sex offenders. Most known pedophiles have court orders barring them from approaching a school, let alone entering one, but how about when they move to another state and try to become a teacher at your kid's school? Is that funny? It happens.
Whenever the system gets a positive ID from the database, an operator compares the database picture with the camera picture. The system is designed to narrow down the people to look at. The police are not going to come barreling in every time the camera has a false positive.
Sometimes the cameras miss a known sex offender. Doesn't the fact that the offenders know these cameras exist deter them from entering our schools? What about the offenders the cameras don't miss?
There is nothing Orwellian about these cameras. They are not trying to track the movements of every American citizen. They are trying to protect our children. You can cry about civil rights all you want, but this is the real world. Bad people are out there and they will, through subterfuge, sneak into your children's schools, your financial records, and even your homes.
When they want to put the camera in my home, I'll be worried. Otherwise, I say put the cameras out if there's a chance that they can reunite a missing child with its family or prevent the molestation of another innocent child.
