{"id":136306,"date":"2018-05-07T19:02:49","date_gmt":"2018-05-08T01:02:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=136306"},"modified":"2018-05-08T21:26:16","modified_gmt":"2018-05-09T03:26:16","slug":"a-monopoly-on-providing-police-body-cameras-what-can-go-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/05\/07\/a-monopoly-on-providing-police-body-cameras-what-can-go-wrong.html","title":{"rendered":"A monopoly on providing police body cameras &#8230; what can go wrong?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Monopolies are generally not good. They distort prices. They stifle innovation. They allow a single point of failure, or manipulation.<\/p>\n<p>Now graft that onto something that&#8217;s not only intimately involved in law enforcement, but in a way that&#8217;s right at the flash point of social (in)justice, violence, and oppression &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, what could possibly go wrong here?<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p><a style=\"display: inline;\" href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2018\/05\/body-cam-giant-snaps-up-its-biggest-rival-to-create-near-monopoly\/\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"max-width: 650px;\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/aSgAaR9febNwmd1N7DPeEOHU-owmojhngK_lZx2HX0Q3NY5ao4BEVRUgLIteXfDBAdGYJb9bSp1SSjftnhJIkEKqOHtSA-HbU_QPwQC54dyFbQkQn0uWsTqteOOb4yZDUzVYVYwlZmo=w506-h910\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: large;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2018\/05\/body-cam-giant-snaps-up-its-biggest-rival-to-create-near-monopoly\/\">Body-cam giant snaps up its biggest rival to create near-monopoly<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nDeal worries law prof, who notes dominant firm can have undue influence over policing.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/SyaMNnBQihg\">View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monopolies are generally not good. They distort prices. They stifle innovation. They allow a single point of failure, or manipulation. Now graft that onto something that&#8217;s not only intimately involved in law enforcement, but in a way that&#8217;s right at the flash point of social (in)justice, violence, and oppression &#8230; Yeah, what could possibly go &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/05\/07\/a-monopoly-on-providing-police-body-cameras-what-can-go-wrong.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A monopoly on providing police body cameras &#8230; what can go wrong?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":136317,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,35,17],"tags":[1568,1569,1221],"class_list":["post-136306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plusposts","category-big-business","category-homeland-security","tag-bodycam","tag-monopoly","tag-police"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/bodycam.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":28141,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/06\/05\/monopoly-american-style.html","url_meta":{"origin":136306,"position":0},"title":"Monopoly, American-style","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 5-Jun-12 1:34pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Adjusted for wealth and income distribution. \u00a0But, hey, anyone can win, right? 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