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I personally can't wait for them to use ARGUS and persistence stare in North St. Louis, East St. Louis, Chicago, Detroit, and all the other cities with extreme violent crime problems. That's one of the biggest reasons for why so many have moved out to the suburbs far far away from the cities. Look at your cities crime-map data and notice how crime completely destroys entire neighborhoods and surrounding areas. This new technology, if put to use to combat crime could revitalize downtowns and cities for hundreds of millions of people. Reversing suburban sprawl, "white-flight", and forest destruction.

People DO want to move inward, especially America's younger generations that grew up isolated in the suburbs where everything important and all their friends were miles apart. Young people in America are leading the urban renewal philosophy, and it's sad to see their efforts, and their businesses affected by crime.

I don't like the Privacy violation, but... With everything comes good and bad. Look at cars, consumerism, religion, etc... Things that were set up with good intentions, had some bad outcomes, and in the end were accepted when people saw both the good and bad as general progress.




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