A push to put body cameras on all ICE agents has Democrats running headlong into a new problem: fear that the technology will provide another avenue for mass surveillance of protesters.
Congressional Democratic leaders have made universal use of body cameras one of their prime demands for imposing accountability on Immigration and Customs Enforcement, especially after federal agents fatally shot two American citizens in Minneapolis. But after an outcry from privacy advocates that surveillance tools will allow ICE agents to identify and track protesters, Democrats are also calling for restrictions on how the body cameras can be used.
Lawmakers and legal observers have accused ICE of leveraging a variety of cameras to surveil protesters, feeding pictures into license plate readers and facial recognition systems. Democrats now worry that the body cameras they’re demanding could be used for similar purposes.
It could not be because bodycams have repeatedly showed police responding appropriately to really messed up people, could it?
You are "correct." they've had second thoughts because somebody read Bre'r Rabbit and think that this use is somehow akin to "Don't throw me in the Briar Patch."
ReplyDeleteIt's not only that the cameras show the police acting appropriately and following training when dealing with such troublemakers, but that the non-police citizenry do not lie and exaggerate about what the police did or said, because they know the encounter will be filmed for all to see if he (mostly he) exaggerates or makes up from his sick mind things that the media will run with as if it were the truth.