Hack the cameras and tell city council about their vehicles location throughout the week.

YUP, keep cutting them AND harass bad acting politicians, these people are not acting in good faith and have to be confronted and pressured past going to a townhall and pointing out their corrupt since they won't listen and will just have you dragged out be security.

Police can only arrest so many and if they start abusing people, or worse, 'escalate'. if your not capable of doing then then I suggest moving if you can, if your not able to do that either, then I guess your just going to have to enjoy authoritarianism like a coward.

Authoritarianism has never been defeated without at least the courcion of violence being present.

Citizens can do a little active resistance as a treat.

Yes. Twenty-five cameras is not a movement. It's a handful of pissed off vandals, maybe trying to start a movement.

This guy discovered that Flock cameras are terribly easy to hack, which might be harder to trace.

There are a lot steeper punishments for this in the US. Your entire life can get screwed if you get caught, truly takes balls to take them down.

I blame it on the lack of new punk music

It's a lot of popular talk about a movement.

If we learned anything from kalshi, it's that you can pay people for crimes as long as you go though a marketplace.
So go on ebay, go on craigslist and tell them you want to buy their exact camera model in bulk.

the irony of mentioning facebook in a post like that. if you use facebook, you are part of the problem.

I'll take the solar panel.

It's better.

Cities have to report on their budgets, and spending more taxpayer money replacing cameras the public doesn't want that are very much in the public eye is something many City Councils won't want to continue.

For cities where Council is split on the issue, this kind of expense is the kind of thing that may push that last vote over the threshold to cancel the contract.

Flock still makes its money, but their contracts aren't renewed and the cameras are covered up, so it's a win overall.

Capitalism consumes everything, even criticism of itself.

Agreed. There were several sections with turns of phrase that were almost but not quite right.

No, because any laser powerful enough to burn out the sensor is powerful enough to bounce back and blind a bystander.

No. I looked up the capability of lasers to permanently damage an image sensor. You'd have to get a powerful laser, small enough to be carried around, and keep it on your target at a distance. Such a laser would be expensive and not readily available for purchase, and trying to aim it would be nearly impossible without a tripod.

I keep hearing that 1 watt lasers will indeed damage a camera. Destroy, not sure. They are available from many online retailers or just go to any large city and buy them at dodgy vape stores.

A 1 watt laser WILL fuck your eyes. Be smart.

Also, green lasers are very visible and will attract attention. Ultraviolet lasers are not.visible by humans. Just saying.