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Aw, shooting him is too easy. There's lots more to do before that.
Does he own a business on main street? Be a shame if his big plate glass window got broke. Then got broke again. And again...
His tires keep getting leaks, because nails keep showing up in his driveway. His car keeps getting keyed. Somebody turned the hose on at his house, and it ran for three days, flooding his backyard, and running his bill up a couple of hundred dollars. Somebody poured gasoline on his lawn spelling "FLOCK?" Rumors have been spreading about extramarital affairs, his AND his wife's. Online reviews for his business have cratered.
Maybe he'll feel like talking at the next county meeting.
If not, maybe things start to burn.
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The problem is that he could then use all of this to justify more surveillance, not less. Especially if any of the attackers get caught because of a Flock camera. It will just cause a feedback loop where a camera helped arrest someone, so we obviously need more cameras, which causes more anger, which causes more attacks, which causes more cameras… You get the idea.
I’m not saying that more cameras are the correct reaction, but I am saying that is likely how someone who is in Flock’s pocket would think about the situation. Especially when a Flock sales rep is whispering “this crime could have been solved if there was a camera on that street corner” into their ear like a little shoulder-devil.
The idea is that flock cameras eliminate these threats. They don't. But that's the idea.
I can imagine other politicians shaking in fear and rethinking their despotic policies because their counterpart met a miserable end of somebody keying their car. Well, I say "somebody", but they exactly know who, because of the flock cameras. But even if they catch this one, there will be MILLIONS behind them, with their keys ready to make their foes suffer through mild to severe annoyance.
I guess they will retailate with something DUMB and ineffective like killing us all in the concentration camps. Amateurs.
ironically all of these things would be used as justification for more surveillance