In my neighborhood, a police chase ended in three teenagers pancaking their car into a house at 60 mph. They perished. All the houses had ring cams. Somehow astonishingly none of those cams were ever used against the police. Curious. ACAB every day. Also fuck Amazon.
What would you expect the cameras to have seen to implicate the police in a crime?
Yes, it was 3 AM. They went out of their way to say that out wasn’t their fault because it was not a high speed chase. Despite the police vehicle pursuing at the same speed but one tenth of a mile behind until about a quarter mile away. The kids plow into the house and the cop turns off the lights at that point and drove right past it. Stating they didnt see it. It was under a street light. The camera would have proven they slowed down to look at it. The cops didn’t do anything or report it. It wasn’t until people walked by and happened to see the car at 6:30 am and called 911 did anyone show up. Fuck police.
Unfortunately, most of that (lying, chasing, not reporting a crash) isn’t actually illegal (for pigs). Police have a stupid amount of leeway from the law.
Really, it should be illegal at the state level in every state to chase people. I’ve lived in a city where the PD had that: police could not chase; they’d just find them later.
I can agree upon the police having leeway, or in other words, being accountable to no one. My city has an ordinance against high speed police pursuit. At the state level, there is a high degree of police liability built into jurisprecedent for high speed chases. That said, police are not accountable to laws. In other words, fuck the police.
Same thing happened at my work place. Some kid was drunk, being chased by cops, and crashed his car into the building next to my work. Car crashed, flipped, and caught on fire, he burned alive. They claim he had gotten away from them and they saw nothing. It was reported by people driving past as in your case, but there were holes in police story and evidence of the contrary. My boss had disconnected the front cameras a bit prior and hadn’t gotten around to reconnecting them, unfortunately, so we’ll never know :(
And none of the people living on the street posted the video online, APAB
This makes me want to get one just on the off chance I can fuck over the police some day.
FOSS software on hardware you own or nothing when it comes to these kinds of things.
Some solutions don’t have FOSS counterparts, such as Arlo’s that are driven by batteries. Arlo doesn’t give footage to police, though.
In the future police warrants for phone tapping will be obsolete, since Alexa is already there listening to your every word.
The novelty of Alexa wore off so quickly. Once the “maybe I shouldn’t hook a microphone provided by a corporation in my home” thought crossed my mind I got rid of all of them.
The most adorable privacy violation yet!
to think about it, literally every tech company is going to hand over entire digital history to either the feds or whoever’s paying them
enoughanything for itI’d stomp it to death. I’d feel bad about it too, but it needs to be done.
Without consent is one thing*. Most police investigations are not consensual. Without warrant is quite another thing.
I expect my providers to respect my rights up to the maximum guaranteed by law. I certainly don’t expect anyone at any company to risk jail by defying court orders. But I sure as shit don’t expect them to roll over and lick boot at the first opportunity they get
*) this is why end to end encryption is so important
I’m not getting an astro, I watched Runaway (1984) I know what they can do:
“What if robots could fuck and Wall-E and Eva had a child?” - Some Amazon engineer.
That’s the business version. They’re moving full steam ahead on the home unit.
we’ve made the decision to wind down the Astro for Business program to focus our efforts entirely on building the best consumer robotics products for the home."
Only FOSS/fully encrypted/self-hosted is above the law, sort of.
It would be cuter if it could figure out what table legs are
This is just describing the outcome of a warrant or subpoena (depending on the circumstance).
It’s the same picture
