No More Cameras In Columbus
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Categories: Civil Rights and Equality, Social Justice, Public Infrastructure / Transportation
Categories: Civil Rights and Equality, Social Justice, Public Infrastructure / Transportation
Mayor Coleman proposed a new system of cameras to watch the populace of Columbus. What does this show?
Have we failed as a society that we have to relegate our responsibility to our fellow citizen to a machine?
This is not good public policy in that we must plant the seeds to a future society where:
1. each individual is not thrown to isolation
2. where they lose perspective as to their place in our society that causes them to commit crimes of frustration and causes harm to all of us because our lack of attention.
Prevention is the best medicine.
It is better to spend this money on community support for all citizens and understanding the way to a new paradigm of social support that could set the stage for progressive community government into the next millennium.
This is generally apparent in eastern societies to some extent but even there, it needs further development and refinement.
Let's look at society as being us, we need to be healed, we need not to get bombed, we need others to bring US out of isolation.
Have we failed as a society that we have to relegate our responsibility to our fellow citizen to a machine?
This is not good public policy in that we must plant the seeds to a future society where:
1. each individual is not thrown to isolation
2. where they lose perspective as to their place in our society that causes them to commit crimes of frustration and causes harm to all of us because our lack of attention.
Prevention is the best medicine.
It is better to spend this money on community support for all citizens and understanding the way to a new paradigm of social support that could set the stage for progressive community government into the next millennium.
This is generally apparent in eastern societies to some extent but even there, it needs further development and refinement.
Let's look at society as being us, we need to be healed, we need not to get bombed, we need others to bring US out of isolation.
He did it because a. he's broke and needed the money or b. he's just a dick who likes to steal stuff.
Either way, he needs more than a good talking to at this point. And if cameras and extra police patrols and curfew enforcement are what it takes to keeps these isolated individuals from screwing up my community - then I'm all behind Coleman's safety plan.
Mayor Coleman's plan to pick up under-18 kids violating curfew and taking them to the downtown YMCA will have snafus (like what happens if no parents can be contacted), but it's worth the social experiment.