Sounds like a new remit for the NRO. Park a billion dollar satellite over an area to keep an eye out for petty vandalism. Then the sheriffs office can team up with Space Force: papers will be served immediately by LEO MIRV deployment, which may also count as execution depending on visibility and aim on the day.

/s - but it wouldn't surprise me at the rate things are going.

will you stop giving these folks ideas on how to spend more tax payers money?

/s (but not really)

We've already got this and it's maybe more capable than you'd think.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARGUS-IS

I just have to say: this whole thread is great absurd comedy - I don't think I have laughed at something on HN that much before :).

We already have speed cameras Al over NYC. Often the posted speeds there are 25 leading to some absurd tickets.

That's what you get for not having rednecks with rifles

1. Shooting rifles in an urban area sounds like a great way to go to prison.

2. As of 2026, most rednecks seem to be all for the police state. Don't expect them to come save you.

In the mid-2000s the company I worked for in Glasgow fitting microwave links to buildings (broadband wasn't readily available outside cable TV aerials) had a pile of ODUs that had been shot off roofs.

Mostly from one particularly benighted area, Easterhouse. If you extensively gentrified Easterhouse back then, it would look like Detroit in the 90s. It's improved a little since then.