The IDEA
I beleive there is one solution to simple crime but it would require the population to accept one fact:
IF YOU ARE DOING NOTHING WRONG (LEGALLY) THEN THE FACT THAT A GOVERNING BODY KNOWS YOUR EXACT LOCATION MEANS NOTHING.
By simply installing/inserting some type of transmitter(RFIDs?) on all citizens and installing the receivers in many, many locations no one could be somewhere without someone else knowing. I know there are many things that could go wrong with this theory but as a whole I think it could work.
Say you have a receiver in your house that collects data on who has been in the vicinity and some punk spray paints "PWNED" on your garage door. (I don't have a garage, nor has this happened to me.) You call the police and they come by, install their thumb drive in the unit and it extracts the data required, they go to said punks residence and slap some cuffs on him/her.
A simple scenario but the effect would simplify everything. Or would it? What proof is there that as a techie geek I didn't tamper with the receiver? I don't have that answer but I'm sure there is one. What about people that don't/refuse to have such a device worn/inserted into them. My assumption is that they are doing something or planning to do something that isn't LEGAL. The information gathered by these devices would not be public knowledge and privacy acts would enforce this. Make the distribution of information not intended for the use be a criminal offense.
So where did this idea come from, read the opinion page from the London Free press of Jan 11, 2007
Put technology to work protecting city cabbies
Regarding the article, Cab driver beaten, tossed (Jan. 9).
Another London cab driver has been injured badly enough for us as the public to read it in the news. For each of these occurrences, I can only imagine the number of times a driver has been threatened, robbed or assaulted.
With the taxi industry having so many people in such vulnerable situations, the question becomes not, "Should security cameras be installed in taxis?" but, "Why has this not been taken as a minimal security measure long before now?"
Cab drivers have nothing much more than hope and luck to keep them safe. Unfortunately, hope and luck won't do this. We need to use the technology available to do it. In addition to cameras, there must be other effective ideas. If things stay the same, we will continue to read (and not read) about these stories.
A tracking device as I suggest would have registered the ids of the gentlemen that were in the cab at the time this event happened. I know they were men as one was charged with the incident.
I would like to hear from pro and con.
IF YOU ARE DOING NOTHING WRONG (LEGALLY) THEN THE FACT THAT A GOVERNING BODY KNOWS YOUR EXACT LOCATION MEANS NOTHING.
By simply installing/inserting some type of transmitter(RFIDs?) on all citizens and installing the receivers in many, many locations no one could be somewhere without someone else knowing. I know there are many things that could go wrong with this theory but as a whole I think it could work.
Say you have a receiver in your house that collects data on who has been in the vicinity and some punk spray paints "PWNED" on your garage door. (I don't have a garage, nor has this happened to me.) You call the police and they come by, install their thumb drive in the unit and it extracts the data required, they go to said punks residence and slap some cuffs on him/her.
A simple scenario but the effect would simplify everything. Or would it? What proof is there that as a techie geek I didn't tamper with the receiver? I don't have that answer but I'm sure there is one. What about people that don't/refuse to have such a device worn/inserted into them. My assumption is that they are doing something or planning to do something that isn't LEGAL. The information gathered by these devices would not be public knowledge and privacy acts would enforce this. Make the distribution of information not intended for the use be a criminal offense.
So where did this idea come from, read the opinion page from the London Free press of Jan 11, 2007
Put technology to work protecting city cabbies
Regarding the article, Cab driver beaten, tossed (Jan. 9).
Another London cab driver has been injured badly enough for us as the public to read it in the news. For each of these occurrences, I can only imagine the number of times a driver has been threatened, robbed or assaulted.
With the taxi industry having so many people in such vulnerable situations, the question becomes not, "Should security cameras be installed in taxis?" but, "Why has this not been taken as a minimal security measure long before now?"
Cab drivers have nothing much more than hope and luck to keep them safe. Unfortunately, hope and luck won't do this. We need to use the technology available to do it. In addition to cameras, there must be other effective ideas. If things stay the same, we will continue to read (and not read) about these stories.
A tracking device as I suggest would have registered the ids of the gentlemen that were in the cab at the time this event happened. I know they were men as one was charged with the incident.
I would like to hear from pro and con.
posted by Steve at 7:34 AM
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