Its likely just a fake story, omitting key details to make the web assembler feel better about his CSS skills.
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T1000@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Sounds about right. Cops have low iqs
buzz@lemmy.world 7 months ago
DroneRights@lemm.ee 7 months ago
No, I’ve been in this situation as a victim. My bike was stolen and they said it would take hours to search the CCTV. I told them about binary search, they didn’t understand.
spark947@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Yeah, seriously. What is even the context of this? We have no idea. The cops might have been like “We need a warrant to look at that footage you idiot.”
kablammy@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
Whoever owns the camera presumably has an interest in reducing/solving crime in the area (why else have cameras?), so they would likely be happy to make the footage available to police if asked nicely, with no warrant required.
spark947@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Yeah, in general, but not necessarily in that circumstance. A lot of time talking to tech people (I’m a softwar engineer) they can can be smug about this while leaving out important context.
usernamesaredifficul@hexbear.net 7 months ago
more importantly cops don’t actually give a shit about solving crime.
In England the police primarily exist to keep noise down in middle class areas. I assume it’s even worse in America
tocopherol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
That is their primary purpose here too but it just requires more violence and subjection, Americans are extra noisey.