best lesson we learn from the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing; cameras deter crime

[Archimedes Plutonium]

Actually the London Marathon is going to be far safer than the Boston
Marathon was in 2013 for the simple reason that almost everyone knows
that London has cameras almost everywhere. And it was cameras that
tracked down the Boston bombers. I suspect those two bombers never
realized how many cameras would track them.

And the police chief of New York City said recently that NYC would
increase the cameras for the New York City Marathon.

It is a fact of life now a days that cameras increase security and
deter crime.

Now here is a improvement on School shootings like the Connecticut
recent massacre of 20 children and 6 adults. What if schools across
the USA had surveillance cameras for which all citizens of the USA can
easily click on and watch the outside and inside the schools. It could
have saved Newtown of that massacre for someone may have seen the
deranged teenager in the parking lot and busting into the school and
called 911 or pressed the emergency switch on that elementary school.

Now, if the price of those cameras came down and we could afford to
fit every major intersection of the USA and allowed private citizens
to monitor those cameras, we probably would see a reduction in crime
nationwide.

Archimedes Plutonium

[arminius]

Archimedes Plutonium wrote on Fri, 19 Apr 2013 14:59:40 -0700:

> cameras increase security and deter crime.

While I don't doubt this lesson, if I were a bad guy, I'd simply
spend energy on the simple act of obfuscated my appearance and
my illicit activities.

The biggest lesson "I" learned from the bombing is that the police
are so very comfortable with "putting the gun in the dead burgler's
hand", that they insisted for days that the gunmen shot first,
and that they exchanged fire with the gunman in the boat for an hour
and that the gunmen had a formidable arsenal that the police were
up against, etc.

What's worse, the NY Times reported all these coverup lies, even
though they were known to be false within 5 minutes of each suspect's
capture.

The lesson learned is that the biggest danger when you put a
bunch of scared trigger-happy revenge seeking money grubbing (they
have 43 cops on paid administrative leave at this very moment simply
because they pulled the trigger and the trauma is too much for them
that they holed a boat in a gunbattle where the gunman, who fired
first, didn't even have a weapon - and - worse yet - he tried to
commit suicide with that weapon that he didn't even have and that
the police knew this within minutes of his capture - yet- Commissioner
Davis went on National TV proclaimin for DAYS (yes, DAYS!) that
the gunman shot first!

The lesson is that the police are a larger danger than the gunmen.

Ask these two questions:
Q1: How many bullets were fired by the police versus the gunmen?
Q2: How many police (traffic cops, FBI, State, Boston, & Watertown) fired?
Q3: Who hit the transit cop?

That's where the lessons are to be learned.

[edward koch]

arminius wrote:

> That's where the lessons are to be learned.

Lesson?

American cops are so used to manipulating the system to cover
up their mistakes that they'll always claim "he shot first!".

They'll do it for days on end, and hope nobody notices the
clarification that comes later, after the dust settled.

The Boston Police commissioner can only either be wholly
incompetent, or, a downright liar.

We all know the answer to that question though.