• Buffalox@lemmy.world
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    11 days ago

    Well done. These cameras should be illegal.

    Replacing the stolen license plate readers will cost Winona roughly $24,000 total.

    Why is it up to the city to foot the bill for the losses of a private company?

    • unwarlikeExtortion@lemmy.ml
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      11 days ago

      Because the city/PD wants it. That’s why they’re paying for it, and why they’ll probably pay for the new ones.

    • CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works
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      11 days ago

      Because they want to manufacture whatever stance they can to make themselves look like the poor victim of some “unhinged” vigilante to turn the public against heroes like this. News stations have been hammering this point on stories like this. “Oh, poor children in our city are going to go hungry now because we have to use this money to replace the cameras. Also 30 murderers and 50 rapists got away because our system was down.”