How Rogue Officers Turned a Nationwide Camera Network Into a Tool for Stalking

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• gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  If it’s become a systemic problem, calling the officers “rogue” is an exercise in gaslighting.

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• Canconda@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Just a few rogue apples

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• Zedstrian@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  They didn’t need to ‘turn’ it into anything; it was designed to be a nationwide tool for stalking.

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  • ReptilianCleric@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Exactly. And the implication that this shit is otherwise benevolent just pisses me right the fuck off.

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• Dryad@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It’s a bug until it becomes a feature to target the ever shrinking circle our nascent fascism rejects.

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• The_Che_Banana@beehaw.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  ‘Rogue officers’ is doinf a LOT of heavy lifting

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• buckykat@hexbear.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  How completely normal cops used a nationwide tool for stalking as a tool for stalking

  Ftfy

  No part of this is in any way unexpected

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• treesquid@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  “a few bad apples” and “rogue officers” are the “boys will be boys” of law enforcement apologism.

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• voxthefox@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Who could have ever foreseen this? /s

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