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Re:Leaked emails show crime app Citizen is testing on-demand... by slownews45 on Friday May 21, 2021 @03:02PM (#27238438)
Overseas the end results if the police are totally defunded or weak is that you tend to end up with really strong differences / ghettos around places where there is and is not security.

It's like gated communities on steroids, but starts to include office, mfg and other items like retail (which totally leave places with no security). Can result in shocking differences on both sides of the fence that usually separates these areas. Ironically the police then tend to follow along and provide better security to what are not better areas (if they have any capacity).

Re:Leaked emails show crime app Citizen is testing on-demand... by tpmx on Friday May 21, 2021 @03:08PM (#27238526)
Overseas where?
Re:Leaked emails show crime app Citizen is testing on-demand... by throwaway15579 on Friday May 21, 2021 @03:30PM (#27238805)
This is how life is in basically every Central and South American city, in my experience.

As soon as a family has some relatively small amount of wealth they will spend it on ultra-secure apartment buildings, tall walls around their house, razor-wire walls and fences, full coverage security cameras and intruder detection, etc.

Re:Leaked emails show crime app Citizen is testing on-demand... by tpmx on Friday May 21, 2021 @03:46PM (#27239002)
I saw jarring signs of that when I visited Mexico City in 2003 - I stayed with a business partner who lived in a walled community guarded by private guards openly carrying submachine guns. Can only imagine that the security has been dialed up a few notches by now.

(The source of my confusion: I interpreted "overseas" in a quite literal way - I'm from Europe.)

Re:Leaked emails show crime app Citizen is testing on-demand... by medium_burrito on Friday May 21, 2021 @04:12PM (#27239284)
Did you visit one of the armored car dealerships in Polanco? They are badass.
Re:Leaked emails show crime app Citizen is testing on-demand... by tpmx on Friday May 21, 2021 @04:44PM (#27239728)
I did not. I think random violent carjackings had just started happening at scale. The guy who hosted me was getting a bit worried.