Surveillance technology in 2026 has achieved a remarkable trifecta: it can’t catch people who openly admit to crimes, it relentlessly persecutes people who’ve done nothing wrong, and — in a plot twist nobody saw coming — it’s now being outsourced to possums. Welcome to Whacky Wednesday. The Shoplifter Who Won’t…
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The Surveillance Towers Cops Call “Scarecrows” Are Multiplying — And “Minority Report” Wasn’t Supposed to Be a Manual
There’s a new fixture in American parking lots, commercial districts, and public spaces: solar-powered surveillance towers mounted on trailers, bristling with cameras and flashing lights. Police departments call them COWs — “cameras on wheels.” The rest of us might as well call them what they look like: scarecrows for the…