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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. ToucanLoucan · 1790618009 · focus · HN ↗

         You can continue that all the way up to the President, a 37-felony convict.

         It feels like every new innovation in our society now is just a new way to diffuse responsibility.

         1. wat10000 · 1790620947 · focus · HN ↗

            In theory, the highest and last level of accountability is the voters. The system isn't perfect, but it's still democratic enough that this sort of thing couldn't happen without the approval or at least indifference of a big chunk of voters.

            1. ToucanLoucan · 1790632991 · focus · HN ↗

               I don't think you can call voters a level of accountability given how trivial it is for voters to be lied to. Like politicians lie constantly, not even in the weasely "well I said this, not this" sort of thing, I mean they just lie. They tell easily dis-proven lies, on camera, with no accountability from the media or any kind of overseeing entity.

               1. wat10000 · 1790645695 · focus · HN ↗

                  It’s easy to detect their lies. The problem is that the voters don’t want to know they’re being lied to.

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