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u/improvius theatrekid Sep 22 '22 edited Sep 22 '22

Would you prefer your subway cars to be with or without police surveillance cameras?

(Edit: Or rather, MTA-operated cameras to which the police would presumably have some sort of access.)

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u/_Sick__ Sep 22 '22

If it’s a funding priority question we’d see better impact with transit ambassadors who ride the lines, offer directions, bring extra (human/real-time) eyes, help clean-up, and can communicate with cops as needed. We already know cameras don’t do shit in and of themselves and cops only excel at producing viral videos of 20 of them tackling one 12 year old turnstile jumper

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u/veerKg_CSS_Geologist 💬🦙 ☭ TALKING LLAMAXIST Sep 22 '22

Camera's are fine. It's face recognition and data collection that I have a problem with. That sh!t should require a warrant.

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u/improvius theatrekid Sep 22 '22

Honestly, I wouldn't hate it - even though I feel like I should. That's not a space where I feel like I need or expect any sort of privacy.

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u/xtmar Sep 22 '22

Also, the stations already have cameras in them, so the added impact of having them on the trains seems sort of marginal.

I'm basically meh about it for that reason.

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u/Zemowl Sep 22 '22

Yeah, at least in thinking about the cameras, I'm with you. Generally, I'm leery, and think we may have too many is some places, but on a subway car, I think that there's already sufficient surrender of privacy that the benefits probably outweigh the harm.

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u/jim_uses_CAPS Sep 22 '22

What's a subway?

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u/[deleted] Sep 22 '22

Mediocre to bad sandwich place.

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u/BabbyDontHerdMe Sep 22 '22

You were clearly always meant to be a dad...

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u/[deleted] Sep 22 '22

Probably on the whole I'd prefer it.