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[–] Whostosay@sh.itjust.works 35 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

It costs less than 10 dollars to disable them.

It also costs about negative 1200 to steal them.

It costs infinitely more to do nothing.

[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 12 points 1 day ago (2 children)

What even are these? I'm not American, we don't torture (or have) crackheads here. I mean we do have bums, but hard drugs are too expensive and hard to find for then I think. Booze is easy.

Anyway, in case anyone here is thinking of their local community's wellbeing, idk what it's like in the US with tariffs and all, but I know that in general it's like 30 bucks off Aliexpress to get a cordless angle grinder that works with Makita batteries. Maybe 50 with a battery and charger included. Yes, they work.

[–] Saurok@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's like portable CCTV. Police cameras. They can move them to wherever the crime is basically.

[–] MunkysUnkEnz0@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

With built-in AI facial recognition and license plate reader

[–] Saurok@lemmy.ml 1 points 17 hours ago

Thanks I hate that additional knowledge

[–] ExtremeUnicorn@feddit.org 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I would like to know as well, if only since if it’s done in the US, it won’t be too long until we get it over here.

I mean, this obviously looks like some kind of mobile general suspicion surveillance system, but what’s the official story?

[–] ricecake@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 day ago

The official story is that it's mobile general surveillance to deter crime.

They're very open that it's a surveillance system that watches everyone and records everything.

https://www.lvt.com/

They're a little less open about how open they are with police or exactly how much they can correlate everything with other data. Most people don't have an intuitive feel for how easy it is to piece together a lot about their lives from some small measurements when tied to everyone else's, so they just stop at being annoyed by the lights and sometimes fucking commercials.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 3 points 1 day ago

take off the whole pole, i think someone did it recently, it probably cost them more to reinstall it.