More proof that progressives are pro-crime – Latest News
It’s a story out of Austin, Texas, with clear implications for each city the place the left dominates.
Austin officers final yr celebrated their elimination of license-plate-reading cameras; they’ve gone quiet since an insane crime spree — three teenagers on a 30-hour tear involving 12 shootings and 5 stolen vehicles — ended solely once they strayed into neighboring city, whose plate-readers allowed its police to nab the perps.
In different phrases, killing the cameras merely allowed criminals to elude the cops in exactly the best way that this sort of surveillance tech is designed to defeat.
Anything that helps crimefighting annoys the left, which all the time whines that it’s not “data-driven” or doesn’t help “real public safety” — excuses the Austin City Council seized upon because it ditched the cameras.
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Of course, robotically studying license plates to instantly find stolen vehicles is a prime instance of “data-driven” policing.
The actual problem? Well, Austin City Councilwoman Natasha Harper-Madison fretted, “I don’t want to be part of a system that inadvertently harms.”
Harms who?
Yes, civil liberties obsessives level to how an overreaching authorities might abuse such tech, however any software might be abused: The reply is to impose the proper restrictions on its use, to not ban it fully.
No, the true drawback is that this tech works too properly, decreasing car theft and serving to to nab criminals.
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Cue the bogus “racist” charge: The New York Civil Liberties Union whines, “The New York City Police Department’s surveillance machinery disproportionally threatens the rights of non-white New Yorkers” — although none of this tech focuses on perps’ race.
Thing is, criminals are disproportionately black and Hispanic, so as the “equity”-focused left sees law enforcement as racist — despite the fact that crime victims as each bit as disproportionately minority.
It’s true that libertarian-leaning conservatives, akin to Rep. Scott Perry (R-Pa.), additionally wish to ban license-plate-readers; they’re prepared to simply accept increased crime within the title of privateness rights.
But interfering with crimefighting is overwhelming a leftist preoccupation, particularly when it’s masked by spurious “racism” claims.
Keeping people secure from being shot or robbed simply isn’t a precedence for contemporary progressives.
