Global Neighborhood Watch by Neal Stephenson

Author:Neal Stephenson [Stephenson, Neal]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Unknown
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

I would hope that it would work in projects. As always, there are economic

barriers. Middle class people will get over those barriers before project

dwellers. But certainly crime is more of an issue in projects than in

middle-class 'hoods and so they would have more to gain by reducing it.

rossum asks: This is a very high-resouce plan- What about those who can't afford

a half-dozen cameras on their house?

I'm really concerned about the cost issue, and so I'm trying to do it with a

minimum of expense. A QuickCam costs US$100. You can get a used computer for a

few hundred and set it up to run a free OS like Linux. Bandwidth is still

expensive but ought to start getting cheaper soon. Basically, this is not a very

interesting project if it costs a hundred thousand bucks to set it up. If it can

be done for a few thousand (or for a figure that is comparable to the cost of

crime in the 'hood) then it becomes economically feasible.

scrow asks: I've got 2 HUGE problems with things you (Neal) just said- #1. You

assume that criminals are identified from the get go and that #2 Not near

answering these questions?!?!?! Why not? They're integral concerns!

#1: The purpose of having the thing neighborhood-based is to prevent

misidentification. There is a black family next door to us that includes a

teenaged kid who likes to work on cars. The cops are always hassling him because

when they see a teenage black kid with his head under a dashboard, they assume

he's stealing the car. They don't know the neighborhood. But we who live here do

know it and so we recognize this kid and we don't react in an inappropriate way.

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