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

“Rogue officers” attempts to frame the discussion around a few “bad apples"instead of the mass surveillance.

FTFY:

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

or perhaps

How a Tool for Stalking is Used by the People For Whom it was Designed

As if the nationwide camera network wasn’t purpose-built exactly for this.

“Gosh, someone came in here and turned our perfectly innocent, nationwide array of facial and vehicle recognition cameras that we programmed to recognize and log everything and turned it into something nefarious while we weren’t looking! Imagine that! It’s those damn dirty no-good rogue officers that are the problem, not our panopticon no one asked for.”

If the rogue officers aren’t immediately in jail, then they aren’t rogue are they?

Cops use stalking tool for stalking

there’s a long history of cops making petty abuses of the power over others they’re granted, and of those additional powers not making their communities any safer. to me this headline reads as “most predictable thing imaginable has come to pass”

here’s my advice:

1. dismantle the surveillance state
2. abolish the institution of prison
3. abolish the police

Don’t try to pass the buck, it’s wrong to have built the network of spycams to begin with

If the officers “turned it into” a tool for stalking, that means officers were stalking people with it. Stalking people is a crime. If these are truly “rogue” officers, that means they weren’t supposed to be stalking people, so they should be charged with the crime of stalking.

But they weren’t. And they won’t be.

This is exactly what the cameras are for, this is exactly what all cops are doing with them, and they will continue to be allowed to do it.

How bold using a stalking tool for stalking

In this system it seems like a “rogue officer” would be someone with personal integrity.

It was built as a tool for stalking…. everyone.

“Rogue”

Who watches the watchmen as they watch the women they abuse?

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

Just a few rogue apples

They didn’t need to ‘turn it’ into anything; it was designed from the get go to be a nationwide tool for stalking and mass surveillance.

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

‘Rogue officers’ is doinf a LOT of heavy lifting

Who could have ever foreseen this? /s

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