"Another day in California, another fatal "accident" taking the lives of innocent Californians whose only misfortune was being in the wrong place at the wrong time. This latest incident of driver negligence occurred in Westwood, in Los Angeles, on Feb. 5. The crash is strikingly similar to the one in Burlingame last summer, where a 19-year-old motorist killed 4-year-old Ayden Fang and sent a 6-year-old girl standing beside him on the sidewalk outside a downtown restaurant to Stanford Hospital."
"I commend the Mountain View police for turning off their Flock cameras. I hope the city decides to keep them off. The constitutional rights of law-abiding residents are paramount. Maybe the AI-enabled cameras do help solve some crimes, but at what cost? If my car is stolen, I'd rather get a new car than risk my neighbors being disappeared by the Trump administration's ICE thugs."
Driver negligence can produce catastrophic, preventable crashes that often begin with collisions involving cyclists and end with vehicles plowing into storefronts, killing and injuring shoppers. Labeling these events as "accidents" obscures preventability and reduces accountability for deadly outcomes. Turning off Flock license‑plate readers protects constitutional privacy for law‑abiding residents and prevents potential misuse of AI‑enabled surveillance, even if such tools sometimes aid investigations. Fiscal policy preferences favor reinstating a robust estate tax on inheritances above $100 million rather than implementing a broad wealth tax, which is viewed as excessively extreme.
Read at The Mercury News
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