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1. schainks · 1790617396 · focus · HN ↗

   This is infuriating.

   A modern police department should actively discipline officers that are too lazy to run the necessary checks to prove the human's paperwork is legit, especially when they have a computer that can do it for them right in front of them!

   Cities adding ALPRs should also be holding the ALPR company financially liable for _every single mistake_ these systems make.

   1. wat10000 · 1790617710 · focus · HN ↗

      There a frightening lack of accountability all the way up the chain. The officer doesn’t care because their bosses don’t hold them accountable. The chief doesn’t hold the bosses accountable for that. The local government doesn’t hold the chief accountable. And ultimately the voters don’t hold the local government accountable.

      1. brg · 1790618842 · focus · HN ↗

         It’s worse than that. In every jurisdiction, the police department is a revenue generating organization. Overtime, beats, and promotions are rewarded to the officers who pull in the most revenue from tickets and citations. You can check this for yourself. Officer of the year in many jurisdictions are those who have the highest parking tickets written, the most DUI arrests and impounds, or the most traffic citations. In general are not those with the most convictions, public service records, or positive feedback from the community. The accountability the organization and their reporting chain has is to revenue, not to the law.

         1. Gibbon1 · 1790627507 · focus · HN ↗

            My belief is we should require all fines and fees be turned over to the social security administration.

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