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It might be fair, but is it a good idea? What you are doing is justifying something you wouldn't agree with because it targets people belonging to an organization doing the thing you don't agree with. That is can be problematic because

1. They now can say 'well it is done to us why can't we do it to others' instead of engaging with real arguments about using ALPR flock cameras to track people

2. You assume that a person working for an organization is automatically complicit in the decisions of that organization and is therefore fair to be targeted by systems you don't want targeted at yourself -- this is fine when in war or other struggles deemed worthy of placing aside normal human morality temporarily, but is this one of those?

3. This type of thing can turn into a race to the bottom where each side escalates compromises of their basic value systems



The police as an organization do not care about engaging with you in good faith and are far past a race to the bottom regarding surveillance.


A race is composed of more than one party.


Don't worry, urban police departments will find the bottom as fast as possible without anyone else's help. You're not "racing" by joining them.




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