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Bring Your Own Camera: Baltimore residents pool resources to stop thieves (city-journal.org)
6 points by Bostonian on Aug 20, 2022 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments


It's been amazing how few systems of cooperation we have evolved around digitally-enabled security. Having cooridination & enforcement below the state/police level, having civilian systems, seems like a part of better claiming the power, having a more opt-in & distributed, a-heirarchical society.

In thus case, made to sound like the means of rendezvous & coordination is one dude (a priest). Who serves as moderator & centralized trust agent. Who just gathers, chooses, & ultimately passes select data up to the state. But still, a radical intermediation on uncapped data slurping.

> Brad O’Brien, pastor of Jesus Our Redeemer Church in Federal Hill and public safety chairman for the Federal Hill Neighborhood Association (FHNA), created a form where residents can register their home security cameras. This does not grant anyone access to the footage, but it allowed O’Brien to build a map of the neighborhood’s camera footprint. After a crime occurs, he can contact residents who might have relevant footage. He passes what they send him on to the city police department.

The field is wide open to decide what we might do with our data, find how & when we might mix it. The future is exciting. Local truth & form slowly starts new abilities to gather.


Yes, and you'll get a few extra points on your social credit score when you share what your neighbour gets up to.




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