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Nicole Migut (FGCU):Surveillance bad or good?
Technology these days are being used more and more by law enforcement. Automated cameras are seen and used more in cities. Camera systems are set up to monitor public streets, such as on top of a street to catch runners and/or speeders. The installation of cameras will reduce crime or at least drive criminal activity elsewhere. Camera systems can promote security and safety. Although cameras are not perfectly reliable, I believe that they are more reliable and honest then a human police officer. For example, a camera tells the truth where as a police officer may not have a reliable observation on how fast I may have been driving or remembering what exactly happened? Humans make mistakes, where as camera won’t lie, of course as if that camera is properly calibrated. Yet it is easier to determine the camera’s calibration than a police officers sharp observation. Yes, a camera can not detect who is the driver when running a red light, but it is basically the same aspect as getting a parking ticket. The officer leaving the ticket does not know who the driver is, but yet they believe that we should be rightly held responsible for the actions of those who we trust to drive our cars.
With that, even though surveillance may decrease our privacy, our safety and security is more taken into place. Surveillance cameras can be successful. One fact that proves it, is during one of the Super Bowls, police were to use face recognition technology to catch fugitives.
10. February 2010 at 22:22
I completely and totally agree with this post. I believe that police officers are definitely qualified for their jobs when it comes to the textbook and classroom qualifications. If you really think about it, a police officer really is just another human being with the same urges and the same social developing that each individual goes through. Who is to say that a police officer on scene of an accident or an incident of running a red light is not going to choose favorites for an attractive young college girl who can cry her way out of a situation of getting a ticket? Do not get me wrong I have definitely played that card before trying to cry to make my way out of trouble. On the other hand I have also been on the opposite side of the spectrum where I was pulled over and given a ticket for running a red light meanwhile I insisted that I was through the light while it was entirely yellow the police officer who pulled me over said that I was challenging his authority. Long story short I ended up fighting the case in court and because of surveillance, it proved that I was in fact through the intersection completely while the light was still yellow and I did not have to pay that ticket. Technology has been advancing and surveillance is one of the fastest progressing aspects of it from cameras in stores to a camera at almost every single traffic light. There are cameras in parking lots and parking garages to prevent the ability of crime happening without justice being served. Other than cameras there are programs like mentioned in this blog about face analysis and being able to catch criminals with it which is not only helping a certain city or one area it is helping the country as a whole become a more safe and fair place to live. With the advances in surveillance and technology as a whole, I believe there is less possibilities for unlawful or unethical decisions to be made in certain situations by people in “power” such as police officers. At the same time where I agree surveillance is an excellent piece of technology that we have today, I agree that it does in fact decrease our privacy but in my response and agreement I would also like to ask a question what is privacy to us now days? What and where are the limits on privacy?