Mitch Roth: crime spike just social media hysteria

[punaticbychoice]

kalakoa @ 14:21:14-
Yup, let's go for it!
Channelling H.L. Mencken again?
Love it! Cut through the BS.
From another resident Cynic here.
Thanks.[8D]

[kalakoa]

Even more insulting: our tax dollars fund Federal agencies' collection of cellphone data, which provides fine-grained location information plus a graph of interactions between individuals.

Analyzing this data would make short work of criminal investigations, but we're "not allowed" to use any of it for domestic surveillance of "us persons". (Even though they do it anyway when the stakes are high enough, apparently theft/burglary don't rate.)

After all, a police state would be perfectly "safe", right comrade?

[randomq]

So much criticism leveled at victims and people trying to keep their families and property safe, by people fortunate enough to have not yet been robbed...

[HereOnThePrimalEdge]

After all, a police state would be perfectly "safe", right comrade?

I'm pretty sure nobody would be talking about robbery in the newly formed Soviet Socialist Republic of Puna, or the Puna Reich, depending which way the wind blows.

Four people are in a room and seven leave. How many have to enter again before it's empty?

[Durian Fiend]

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Originally posted by leilanidude

how often are totally innocent people going to have to deal with your completely unnecessary flood lights at night?
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Are motorists with eyes on the road bothered by these lights?

I don't like light pollution either, but if effective then so be it.

[terracore]

"Are motorists with eyes on the road bothered by these lights?"

Of course not. Only people stopping and craning their necks trying to look past our foliage into our property.

[PaulW]

I've seen these on streets in my neighborhood, they're actually quite nice in lighting my way if I'm walking after dark.
As far as I know people can light up their house any way they want.

[kalakoa]

people can light up their house any way they want.

Provided that such fixtures are fully shielded or have an output of less than 8100 lumens for each acre of property [14-53(d)] and are installed, permitted, and inspected in conformance with the electrical code [14-54(a)].

County graciously allows the use of such illumination after 11:00pm if bona fide business or recreational activities are taking place [14-55 table 14-A].

Fine not to exceed $500; it is a separate offense for each and every day of violation [14-55.1].

The irony of rules and regulations which apply to those seeking to prevent a burglary is left as an exercise for the reader.

[MarkP]

I can see how excessive light would be a bother to neighbors and those on the road. However it is not clear that terracore's lights rise to that level.

[TomK]

glassnumbers and leilanidude:

The solar-powered lights I have are directional, and illuminate the most vulnerable parts of my property, and only for a minute or two (or as long as they detect motion). A driver would have to be looking directly at my house and in my driveway to be blinded by the light. Secondly, given I live at the dead-end of a dirt road, it's not as if there's much fast-moving traffic or people walking on the street at night. We used to have slow moving cars, with their lights off at night, stopping on the street just outside our houses. This doesn't happen anymore.