Police Mannequins

[vdeane]

But one change always leads to another.  Look at how the NYC cameras went.  The legislature authorized a pilot program, limited to 140 locations and during school hours.  The city acted like it was a permanent program is is now claiming the sky is falling because it didn't get reauthorized (thanks to political infighting, leading to Cuomo to somehow turn the law into an executive order), and before the reauthorization failed, the city was pushing to have it expanded in such a way that they could theoretically be posted nearly everywhere in the city, along with no restrictions on what hours tickets can be issues in (this is in effect what happened when it switched to executive order... if it's REALLY about school safety, why issue tickets when there won't be kids walking to/from school?).  Seeing each issue in isolation as a one-time thing may be how engineers think, but it is not how advocates think.  To them, each action is a stepping stone.  They don't see the camera issue as "that's great, we got what we wanted, time to go home".  They see it as "that's a first step, time to fight for the second".