Title: Businesses forced to pay the police to let them spy on customers Source:
FromThe Trenches/Gateway Pundit URL Source:http://fromthetrenchesworldreport.c ... olice-let-spy-customers/216541 Published:Jan 18, 2018 Author:MassPrivateI Post Date:2018-01-18 11:27:46 by Deckard Keywords:None Views:559 Comments:12
What is happening in places like Detroit and elsewhere should raise red-flags in the mass media but as you can see from the video they are embracing it.
Last year police in Detroit, Michigan asked businesses to install real-time surveillance cameras that are connected to police departments.
Which isnt all that bad, right?
Wrong.
Oh, the author did mention in the article that Detroit has the highest murder and violent crime rate of any major city in the country, according to the FBI. The FBI has released numbers show violent crime in Detroit has spiked more than 15 percent in 2016. The numbers show 13,700 violent crimes which include murder, rape, assault, and robbery. The author didnt mention that? Hmmm ...
What the author did say is that he is deciding what is not good for business owners in Detroit when he should be allowing the business owners to be the ones that decide if this is wrong. Some lone individual wishing the world to know him as MassPrivateI should not be deciding what is good and bad in Detroit when I will give odds that he doesnt even live there
The author did not say that most of these businesses want to protect their property and around 75 percent of businesses impacted by the requirements are already in compliance. The author didnt mention this? Hmmm ...
The author did mention that the idea for the cameras in all the specified stores came about after the murders of two late night party store owners were solved with the help of surveillance video. The author didnt mention this? Hmmm ...
The author left our some IMPORTANT FACTS when he said:
Businesses in the Green Light project get extra patrols from Detroit Police Department officers who stop in to sign a log book, documenting the visit. Startup costs for getting the surveillance cameras installed ranges between $1,000 and $6,000, with monthly costs for cloud storage of the video starting at around $140.
The correct information the author should have presents is:
Until now, businesses had to pay $4,000 to $6,000 to install the cameras, an up-front cost that kept many businesses from participating in the program, Mayor Mike Duggan said. Now, Comcast has a new plan in which the cable and Internet provider will install the cameras and necessary equipment for $1,000, with businesses paying about $140 a month for the service, including 30 days of storage of video from every camera at a business.
See the real difference in presenting partial information to influence opinions and sway people....and presenting completely factual information makes. It makes $3,000 to $5,000 difference here.
The author did mention that the expansion of the program is crucial because it has led to a 50% reduction in violent crime at stores, gas stations and other businesses that have installed them. The author didnt mention that? Hmmm ...
I could go on and on, but I have done enough damage to this article to destroy its creditability so I will stop here.
Move along folks, theres nothing of importance in the article here ...
It's the coercion element of forcing businesses to participate that rankles.
Not every late-night business does need such services. For instance, gas stations with cashiers seated behind bulletproof glass booths. Why should they pay?
If any businesses challenge this law in court, it will be struck down. And it should be.
Let the market sort it out. If stores want to make other arrangements or are willing to chance a few robberies over time, that is their call. Not the police's.
If Detroit is truly determined to do something like this, they should buy and install the cameras themselves for free, by raising a sales tax or business tax to pay for it.
Funny, for the moment there....you sounded just like a libertarian.
Actually, I sounded a bit like Milton Friedman or Murray Rothbard. So, yeah, pretty libertarian.
As opposed to being a statist or a fascist or a redistributionist or a socialist, for instance. We all have to be something.
You have a problem with liberty-oriented policy where businesses who want more services get to participate in a program like this and the businesses who don't want it or need it don't have to pay for it?
It surprises me a little that these businesses aren't already running their own 1080p systems. Or even 4k systems. They don't cost that much. Even here in Hooterville, with virtually no crime at all, we have full camera coverage on convenience stores. I asked the clerks once at a local convenience store and they said that they had had a few people pull in to pump gas at the outer less-lit pumps and then make a run for it. But they did more cameras and lights and the cops put an end to that problem. Armed robbery is so rare that, well, I just don't know how many years it has been since there has been an armed robbery in a store. Even a significant burglary of a business happens only every few years. Of course, small towns are just different than even minor metro areas like Detroit. And people here are pretty habitually law-abiding. It's a character defect.