Sunday, January 21, 2007
Deputizing the "Army of Davids"
It is at least a little surprising that Glenn Reynolds, the leading advocate of a prepared and self-reliant citizenry linked together with technology, hasn't linked to this story:
Smile, you're on 911.
Catching criminals in the act these days is sometimes as easy as pressing a button on your camera phone.
Now the city is moving to simplify your ability to share telltale evidence of subway flashers, house burglars or even a suspect pothole, Mayor Michael Bloomberg said yesterday.
"If you see a crime in progress or a dangerous building condition, you'll be able to transmit images to 911 or online to nyc.gov," Bloomberg said in his State of the City address.
A few years ago a lot of people worried about (or, I suppose, celebrated) the cops putting up cameras to surveil every public place. The marriage of digital cameras and cell phones has substantially mooted that bit of hanky-twisting. Now all the cops need is an email address, a good webmaster, and a citizenry that is more pack than herd.
All prefigured here
, of course.2 Comments:
By 
, at
Sun Jan 21, 11:39:00 PM:
Yet this idiot wants to spread gun control thought the whole nation the same ones that have made the big apple a crime capital of america what a jerk
By 
Buce, at
Mon Jan 22, 11:33:00 PM:
"A capital of crime"--
NYC has one of the lowest crime rates of any major city. See:
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000103&sid=aHWGwSJjpbOU&refer=us
