When you are brainstorming , ideas that are pretty wild and unrealistic can be thrown in , from some such better ideas and more practical ideas sprout.
Absolutely.......and I don't want to say I'm trying to shoot down the idea of cameras. Merely giving you my 2 cents on how potentially applicable the idea is, from my limited perspective. So don't think any critisim is designed to cease any brainstorming ideas. If anything, to possibly narrow the parameters, perhaps
Let's play with the camera idea a bit....perhaps technology can be improved upon which doesn't focus so much on facial recognition, but more on weapon identification. Let's say a camera spots someone with a gun, identifies it as such, and initiates a program that alerts all the other nearby cameras to lock on to that subject. The software would have to be able to identify a police officer from some person brandishing a gun. And most importantly, this information is made public so as the bad guys are fully aware they're going to be seen & recorded. THAT becomes the deterrent
I think it possible to develop algorythyms that can determine the caricteristic postures of criminals .
Policemen and Criminals often recognise each other , by the alertness that is developed and isn't easy to really hide.
This is pretty stubtle stuff for a dependable machine , but everything that a person can sense a machine can sense also , it just becomes a matter of refinement.
At bank doors and the walkway ramps of airports cameras could determine that you were shifty eyed and flag your person for further attention.
I think there would be a lot of false positives for policemen are often just as alert as their quarry.
But most people go about their day absent from their selves thinking about somewhere they are not, this much hay could be removed from the hay stack.
