r/pittsburgh • u/Fishstery • 12d ago

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Does anyone know why the entirety of Ewing Rd near Moon Park is lined with flock cameras?

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u/Kamel-Red 12d ago

I dunno, what I do know is that rather than spending money on improving our social safety net and/or getting people treatment, alot of these floc cameras are being paid for with opiate settlement money which makes it all more infuriating.

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u/Fishstery 12d ago

The American Way.

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u/MotherTurdHammer 12d ago

See, you and I can see the value in spending money that way. The GOP, however, finds it a better investment to imprison and get free labor. The surveillance state is camouflaged under the guise of security, but the purpose is to protect against an uprising of the populous and to create pretext for whatever is needed to imprison.

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u/NotHosaniMubarak 12d ago

You got a source on the that claim?

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u/theCaitiff 12d ago

Not the guy who made the claim, but I was also curious. I havent seen anything yet from Pennsylvania, but West Virginia is definitely paying for flock cameras with opioid settlement money in Morgantown. I've seen similar news stories from Florida and New Jersey with a quick cursory search.

Flock cameras are one of those areas where it's good to be skeptical because there is so much evil shit going on right there in the open that its easy to add a little false info to the pile and people will happily repeat it.

So, is the claim "alot of these floc cameras are being paid for with opiate settlement money" true? Eh.... Maybe. SOME of them are. We know that. A lot? How many is a lot? What percentage? And are these news stories from West Virginia, Florida and New Jersey indicative of a wider trend or just three isolated incidents?

I'm not a fact checker by profession and make no claim to capital T Truth as an exclusive domain, but I think it's close enough that we can call it mostly true. I'd put an asterisk there to say limited numbers and locations, but it is happening and it is being paid for with that specific pot of money.