San Francisco has 98 police drones, 400 AI license plate readers, and a billionaire-funded real-time crime center. Crime is down 44%. Nobody seems to mind — yet. But experts say the city is running an experiment with no control group and no plan to slow down.
(1) defund the police, (2) act surprised when crime rises, (3) respond with surveillance tech: the good ol’ problem-reaction-solution paradigm