A federal judge again Friday ordered agents in Chicago for immigration operations to wear and turn on their body cameras, telling them “that was not a suggestion.”
U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis issued the order Thursday, citing concerns about increasingly violent clashes between federal agents deployed in Operation Midway Blitz and the public, and their use of tear gas against protesters.
Ellis said her order requires any federal agents working under Operation Midway Blitz to wear body cameras and keep them on during all “law enforcement activities.”
If there’s any one group of people in our society I’d support having always-on cameras, (like Larry Ellison, soon to be part owner of TikTok claims all people should have) it would be law enforcement agents.
You do not get to wield that much power over people without personal sacrifice.
“It’s a violation of my privacy!”- you’re on the job and have the power to ruin or even end someone’s life. Deal with it. Privacy for the governed, not for the wielders of government power.
As with so many other ideas these assholes have, I think Larry should go first. Let’s try having him under 24/7 surveillance, along with every other billionaire, as a trial we do for a few years.
We’ll call it something cool, like A/B testing, where the billionaires are under surveillance as the test group and everyone else is treated like a free citizen in a free country.
Only after we see how it goes with billionaires for several years and have very public hearings about it, only then can we even talk about it for everyone else…
“b-b-but you don’t understand! My system wouldn’t publicize the data and would only keep it visible to a small group of… trusted employees, who could only see it with a court order! It’s only a coincidence the people in charge of that team are also being paid by me!”
I would like to see politicians have always-on cameras as well. No more backroom deal bullshit.
Welp, there goes Grindr, then. 🤷🏼♂️
That’s part of the plan. 😏