PIT maneuver a few random civilians into a sidewall for no reason. Arrest the occupants as they crawl out of the burning wreckage of their over-turned vehicle for non-compliance. Stub your toe getting back into your cruiser and issue an all-persons APB requesting medical assistance from the EMT techs for an officer down that then gets SMS serviced to every cellular customer within a 300 mile radius so they know how heroic you are. While you're waiting you whine to them over the radio demanding an estimated ETA because your toe really hurts and you need an ouchy-strip and you're hungry. Then drive over to the ATM machine to deposit your paycheck. The simple life of a Department of DHS worm just doing ICE enforcement.
Holy fuck you've had a bad lot. If you ever want to just vent or even chat, HMU. I know you're not trusting of people, but even if you just want to rage at someone, I'm more than happy to listen. I know, shit sucks, but there are people that care. Few and far between, but we do exist.
You're overestimating the abilities of CCTV and you're also overestimating the piggies. Case in point: a long time ago I had my vehicle broken into and all my tools stolen when I went to dinner with the family. Vehicle was in full view of a CCTV system and there was a "security guard" patrolling the parking lot. Dinner was maybe 90 minutes at most. Security guy "didn't see or hear anything". Cops couldn't be bothered to show up.
When the oink patrol finally got around to reviewing the footage they couldn't resolve any discerning information. Nothing ever came of it. Nobody was ever investigated. My tools, including all the unique, hand-made, forged tools I made myself were never recovered. Just gone.
Outting myself a bit, but it takes maybe 30 seconds to break a side window and steal everything inside a vehicle. If you're wearing non-descriptive clothing and any kind of mask you're probably never going to be identified. You give way to much credit to the powers that be. They do not give a fuck about you. CCTV is just another weapon they use against you. It will never be used to help you. It will only ever be used to ensure you don't organize. Your phone getting stolen? They don't have the personnel to review that footage. Organizing a union? They have people on overtime to review that footage.
Like Awoo said, it does not deter petty, irrational crime. Irrational actors are not thinking about whether or not there are CCTV cameras. It also doesn't deter coordinated, rational crime. Rational actors are aware of the surveillance and act accordingly. In either case, the CCTV system is irrelevant. Which leads to...
why would states ... invest in such extensive networks?
Like I said: because it is a weapon. It is not for your benefit. It is not to deter crime. You and I are the targets. Anyone that gets uppity about the state is the target.
If you're worried about crime, ensure that people have their needs met so they don't have to do crimes to survive, not whether or not they are properly surveilled.
"I think it's worth it. I think it's worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights."
Charles James Kirk, April 5, 2023
He goes on to say:
"How did we stop shootings at baseball games? Because we have armed guards outside of baseball games. That's why. How did we stop all the shootings at airports? We have armed guards outside of airports. How do we stop all the shootings at banks? We have armed guards outside of banks. How did we stop all the shootings at gun shows? Notice there's not a lot of mass shootings at gun shows, there's all these guns. Because everyone's armed. If our money and our sporting events and our airplanes have armed guards, why don't our children?"
I have to ask: What shootings at baseball games, airports, banks, and gun shows? Which ones were those that got "stopped" exactly? Dates and detes, please.
Charlie, Charles, Char-boi, dumb-bitch, the thing is, we don't have "armed guards" outside of our baseball games. We don't have "armed guards" outside our airports. We don't have "armed guards" outside our banks. We don't even have "armed guards" outside our ripoff gun shows. That's not a thing. That's a fantasy that you have (had).
"Teleports" behind you by clumsily and slowly walking behind you while coughing constantly because they smoke two packs of Reds a day.
Nothing personnel, kid
Even pronounces it wrong.
You turn around and give them a light shove.
They trip over their trench-gown, which drags several feet behind them, as they drop their over-sized katana and dramatically fall over screaming and crying, clearly faking serious injury.
They tell you their dad works for Nintendo and is also a lawyer (actually believable) and is going to sue you for a trillion dollars and majority control of Tesla(?).
They get up and run away, over-sized trench-gown dragging behind them.
You think to yourself: "Well, that was fucking weird."
he's currently shilling for a company trying to bring AI into schools
Fucking wut? I'm going back to school to finish out my engineering degree and every single class has a giant multi-paragraph disclaimer about use of AI as scholastic dishonesty that will not be treated lightly. I mean, good, but wtf does he mean? Like elementary and high schools? What happens when these kiddos get to college after they're completely dependent on some LLM to even think for them and the professor is like: "nah dawg"? They just flunk the fuck out because they can't generate a single coherent thought independently? What the fuck is the end-game of this whole "AI" crap?
Even viewing it from a capitalist lens, I don't understand what the goal is. So "AI" becomes so smart and self-recursive that human labor is arbitrary. OK. Then what? You live in capitalism. People have to buy your widgets. If nobody has any money to buy your widgets because "AI" put everyone out of work, then all you have is a warehouse full of "AI"-generated widgets that nobody can buy. So now what? I'm not being facetious. Seriously, now what? How does this work out in your favor? How does this work out in anyone's favor?
Is AI selling AI-generated goods to other AI? WTF is the end-goal of this exercise?
The "old" tradition. I feel attacked. I may have, possibly, perhaps, spliced a few telephone lines to make long distance modem calls to BBSs on whoevever-the-fuck's dime when I was a teenager, but that doesn't mean you get to call me "old." I'm only as old as I feel, damnit, and my back hurts, I need to sit down for a bit.
I have been working MEP engineering jobs for over a decade. If we ever got a job called "Bussy Lake" you would never hear the fucking end of it in your entire life. You would quit that company and move on and 20 years later one of your old work homies would call you up to go get some beers and I guarantee the Bussy Lake would come up. Get that bussy! You only have to refrain when you talk to the client. In-house, anything goes.
PIT maneuver a few random civilians into a sidewall for no reason. Arrest the occupants as they crawl out of the burning wreckage of their over-turned vehicle for non-compliance. Stub your toe getting back into your cruiser and issue an all-persons APB requesting medical assistance from the EMT techs for an officer down that then gets SMS serviced to every cellular customer within a 300 mile radius so they know how heroic you are. While you're waiting you whine to them over the radio demanding an estimated ETA because your toe really hurts and you need an ouchy-strip and you're hungry. Then drive over to the ATM machine to deposit your paycheck. The simple life of a Department of DHS worm just doing ICE enforcement.
Bunch of ACAB bastards if you ask me.