> How exactly does one grow up thinking that the measurement they want to optimize for in law enforcement, above all others, is "efficiency"?
Because one, it all comes from the same pot of money. What happens to training and selection budgets that weed out the racists, misogynists, bullies and the like. Those available for responding to violent crime, investigation of rapes and homicides etc when Police forces have to routinely expend their resources catching speeders and/or checking number plates?
And two, because to name a few of the more well known dictators; Hitler, Stalin, Mao and more recently the Kim's, all did, or do just fine without number plate readers. If the technology is available, how much notice of any laws preventing its use are future dictators going to take anyway?
Collectively wasting energy trying to ban number plate readers and the like will make zero difference to whether we end up living in dictatorships/police states. And in the meantime it is better to hold off society pushing in that direction by spending the money on things people care about.
>And two, because to name a few of the more well known dictators; Hitler, Stalin, Mao and more recently the Kim's, all did, or do just fine without number plate readers.
We're all doomed.
>What happens to training and selection budgets that weed out the racists, misogynists, bullies and the like.
No such mechanisms exist. They were talked about during any planning sessions, they weren't requested or required by the legislators. They weren't designed, tested, or implemented. In fact, police academies and similar systems probably select for bullies, racists, and misogynists. I don't say this lightly, the few anecdotes that come out of those places certainly support the idea, and the results don't seem to contradict it in the slightest.
Only a deliberately cultivated naivete and some serious distance from these institutions could have one believing such mechanisms exist.
Because one, it all comes from the same pot of money. What happens to training and selection budgets that weed out the racists, misogynists, bullies and the like. Those available for responding to violent crime, investigation of rapes and homicides etc when Police forces have to routinely expend their resources catching speeders and/or checking number plates?
And two, because to name a few of the more well known dictators; Hitler, Stalin, Mao and more recently the Kim's, all did, or do just fine without number plate readers. If the technology is available, how much notice of any laws preventing its use are future dictators going to take anyway?
Collectively wasting energy trying to ban number plate readers and the like will make zero difference to whether we end up living in dictatorships/police states. And in the meantime it is better to hold off society pushing in that direction by spending the money on things people care about.