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These cameras aren’t racist enough!

\s or something like that

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Don’t worry, the cameras that have facial recognition are racist plenty

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This can be explained by where the cops go versus where the cameras go. Cameras are all over the city and are placed, honestly, to collect as much revenue as possible. Cops tend to concentrate in minority neighborhoods due to a real or perceived need for more cops there.

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Any crime that’s punished by a fine is only a punishment for the poor.

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Depends on how the fines work. Check out Finland day-fine system. It’s a bit complicated, but essentially the gov’t knows how much money you make/what kind of wealth you have, and scales fines according to that. So a person that’s in the lowest 10th percentile may only pay a few dollars for a traffic fine, while someone that’s in the 99th percentile for income/wealth can end up with a speeding ticket that costs over €100,000.

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Have seen this and do agree with the execution. My frame of reference was the US

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Can we please have neither?

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