[HN Gopher] NYPD blues: Cops ignored 93 percent of surveillance ... ___________________________________________________________________ NYPD blues: Cops ignored 93 percent of surveillance law rules Author : rntn Score : 66 points Date : 2023-03-31 21:58 UTC (1 hours ago) (HTM) web link (www.theregister.com) (TXT) w3m dump (www.theregister.com) | EngManagerIsMe wrote: | Anyone who has been watching cops over the past few decades | shouldn't find this at all surprising. Cops consistently believe | themselves to be above the law and above oversight -- especially | the NYPD, but the problem is in every precinct around the | country. | | It's all cops. | jMyles wrote: | Right. | | So, next steps: we need the resumption of an informed, | responsible, caring abolitionist movement, with careful and | clear advocacy around how we envision public safety and the | rule of law happening once we end this disastrous experiment of | professional policing. | | We need to celebrate that the information age brings with it | difficult-to-refute witness in every pocket in the form of a | camera, and an easy-to-activate alarm in the form of a phone. | | Seriously - it's a great time to complete the half-measure that | concluded the American Civil War and finally end what we once | called slave-patrols-and-plantations and which we now call | police-and-prisons. There is an obvious better way, especially | now. | dmix wrote: | It always amazes me there isn't a publicly accountable oversight | committee that comes with every major privacy violating power. | The courts alone aren't sufficent. And secret courts like FISA | that are only selectively required are doubly insufficient. | yieldcrv wrote: | various municipalities enact oversight committees as a "gotcha" | to rogue police departments | | all that happens is that the oversight committee doesn't get | information shared to them | | there are other solutions | greenyoda wrote: | Previous discussion: | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35387000 ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2023-03-31 23:00 UTC)