You have to pay to read the rest of the article, which says:
>In August 2024, the town of Cedar Grove held a routine city council meeting. There, they discussed raises for their crossing guards and the purchase of a new truck for the local waterworks.
>The last item on the agenda was whether to accept a donation of new automatic license plate reader (ALPR) cameras for the town’s police department.
>“We’ve received a generous donation of new ALPR cameras … a very generous donation that the police department is receiving,” the town’s manager said. “These are very heavily used tools in the law enforcement toolkit, so it’s good to add more to our belt.”
>The total monetary value of the donation was $37,004. In the approved resolution, the town detailed its provenance: an LLC based out of Encinitas, California.
>It just so happens to be the same LLC that property records list as the owner of a $9.5 million mansion in the town.
>The address for the LLC is also used for a number of other businesses, investment ventures, and a charity. All of which have the exact same manager.
I hate crime, but I have tracking and the surveillance state even more.
My neighbor recently had her Jeep stolen. Someone has recently been in my car and glove compartment. This is awful and these people need to be caught and prosecuted.
But the fact that the government can track everywhere we go (they already can with smartphones) is the first step to punishing people for association or enforcing where we go. And these systems will be abused.
I have the same thoughts as you. So much tracking and data gathering yet prosecuting a simple theft requires months & months of “investigation” & “court process”.
Increasingly I have come to almost believe my brothers take on things that the mafia moved into politics/judicial/bureaucracy from the union days.
Yes we can already see this with ICE going after social media critics, and the potential for it with the president's NSPM-7 directive defining domestic terrorists as anything that's not "traditional values", anti-fascist or critical of capitalism.
This is a weird article. There's no evidence or proof, just the author claiming he did it.
Edit: Saw there's a pay to read more option.
Yeah, sounds like a clickbait. Did you notice the paid sign up at the bottom? I guess we will never find out...
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You have to pay to read the rest of the article, which says:
>In August 2024, the town of Cedar Grove held a routine city council meeting. There, they discussed raises for their crossing guards and the purchase of a new truck for the local waterworks.
>The last item on the agenda was whether to accept a donation of new automatic license plate reader (ALPR) cameras for the town’s police department.
>“We’ve received a generous donation of new ALPR cameras … a very generous donation that the police department is receiving,” the town’s manager said. “These are very heavily used tools in the law enforcement toolkit, so it’s good to add more to our belt.”
>The total monetary value of the donation was $37,004. In the approved resolution, the town detailed its provenance: an LLC based out of Encinitas, California.
>It just so happens to be the same LLC that property records list as the owner of a $9.5 million mansion in the town.
>The address for the LLC is also used for a number of other businesses, investment ventures, and a charity. All of which have the exact same manager.
>Aaron Rodgers.
Supporting documents:
https://cedargrovenj.org/ArchiveCenter/ViewFile/Item/1065
https://www.bizapedia.com/tx/pantheraleo-investments-llc.htm...
I hate crime, but I have tracking and the surveillance state even more.
My neighbor recently had her Jeep stolen. Someone has recently been in my car and glove compartment. This is awful and these people need to be caught and prosecuted.
But the fact that the government can track everywhere we go (they already can with smartphones) is the first step to punishing people for association or enforcing where we go. And these systems will be abused.
I have the same thoughts as you. So much tracking and data gathering yet prosecuting a simple theft requires months & months of “investigation” & “court process”.
Increasingly I have come to almost believe my brothers take on things that the mafia moved into politics/judicial/bureaucracy from the union days.
Not "will be": "are being" abused. Even a cursory search finds many cases of police abusing the information to stalk exes, for example.
Yes we can already see this with ICE going after social media critics, and the potential for it with the president's NSPM-7 directive defining domestic terrorists as anything that's not "traditional values", anti-fascist or critical of capitalism.