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A comment on Mozilla letter to Amazon Ring: stop sharing information with police.

Re:Mozilla letter to Amazon Ring: stop sharing information w... by sneak on Thursday July 09, 2020 @10:11PM (#23787450)
I support this piecemeal protest, but ultimately we really just need to defund and abolish the police in the US as they are known today and replace them with a new and different organization dedicated to public safety, that is actually legally required to help people (the police are not), and that has huge consequences for integrity failures such as lying.
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Re:Mozilla letter to Amazon Ring: stop sharing information w... by bzzzt on Friday July 10, 2020 @05:33AM (#23789692)
Yeah, because the second time everything will work as intended? Whatever you measure there are always going to be some loopholes causing unintended behaviour. Why would imposing those consequences on the current police system not give your desired outcome?
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Re:Mozilla letter to Amazon Ring: stop sharing information w... by SpicyLemonZest on Friday July 10, 2020 @11:15AM (#23792327)
The "not legally required to help" thing sounds silly in the abstract, but most people interested in police reform are going to want to keep it. A police force that's required to help people is, by definition, a police force that can be sued for not policing aggressively enough.
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Re:Mozilla letter to Amazon Ring: stop sharing information w... by sneak on Saturday July 11, 2020 @11:32AM (#23802900)
Most of the issues with police today are not that they are enforcing the law too aggressively, it is that they are closing out call tickets too aggressively.

They are entirely different things: https://sneak.berlin/20200628/the-problem-with-police-in-ame...

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