• usernamesaredifficul [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      11 months ago

      more importantly cops don’t actually give a shit about solving crime.

      In England the police primarily exist to keep noise down in middle class areas. I assume it’s even worse in America

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        11 months ago

        That is their primary purpose here too but it just requires more violence and subjection, Americans are extra noisy.

      • DroneRights [it/its]@lemm.ee
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        11 months ago

        No, I’ve been in this situation as a victim. My bike was stolen and they said it would take hours to search the CCTV. I told them about binary search, they didn’t understand.

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        11 months ago

        Yeah, seriously. What is even the context of this? We have no idea. The cops might have been like “We need a warrant to look at that footage you idiot.”

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          11 months ago

          Whoever owns the camera presumably has an interest in reducing/solving crime in the area (why else have cameras?), so they would likely be happy to make the footage available to police if asked nicely, with no warrant required.

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            11 months ago

            Yeah, in general, but not necessarily in that circumstance. A lot of time talking to tech people (I’m a softwar engineer) they can can be smug about this while leaving out important context.