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December 07, 2008

An Army of Mrs. Kravitzes

As a kid coming of age in the late 50's through 60's, I knew as I played outside with my friends there wasn't much I could get away with because at any time one mom or another might be watching.

The speed of light is not the universe's speed limit - mom networks defy that speed limit at will.

And without search warrants.

Now, in place of the ever dwindling All Seeing Mom, steps a computer geek with a plan

[Adam] Jackson, 22, moved to the city in June from a small beach town in Florida and quickly discovered the realities of San Francisco real estate. Prices were so high that he said he "jumped on the first place I found."

It turned out to be on Taylor Street, just across from Glide Memorial Church. It's an ideal location - for watching crack deals, late-night violence and random crazy behavior.

"By the third night I was basically fed up with the crime and noise," Jackson said. "I didn't really have a plan. I just put the Webcam up, my girlfriend made a little Web page to display it, and here we are."

If you haven't checked out adamsblock.com, you are missing one of the greatest at-work time-killers ever to pop up on your monitor. There are two cameras, both on 24 hours a day, and a real-time chat room that crackles with activity. And no wonder - there is always something to talk about.

Jackson's camera has caught a man throwing himself into the side of a bus, apparently hoping to work an injury scam. It didn't work. The bus didn't stop. Viewers have also watched fights, car chases and break-ins. [...]

The results have been pretty dramatic. In three days, adamsblock.com has had 80,000 views and 25,000 visitors, a remarkable 40 percent of whom live outside the United States. On Friday, a woman from the United Kingdom joined the regulars in competing to see who could be first to identify the number stamped on the trunk of taxis that drive by. [...]

Last week Jackson stopped by a neighborhood bar a few blocks away and noticed something interesting.

"I saw a lot of the old regulars who used to be on my block," he said. "They'd moved since I put the camera up."

That's not unexpected, said police Capt. Gary Jimenez from the Tenderloin Station. Take the vicious, gang-related shooting on Turk Street in August. As soon as it happened, his officers went to local businesses and found "four cameras, all of them positively identifying the guy and his accomplices. We caught him two blocks away."

There is no expectation of privacy on a public street and while city cameras are tied up in red tape from the usual "civil rights" crowd, then it will take private citizens like Jackson to step in with the next technical jump ahead of Neighborhood Watch.

Moms will approve.

(h/t Eric Scheie)

Posted by Darleen at December 7, 2008 06:43 PM

Comments

Hat tip to Darleen’s Place

http://www.darleenclick.com/weblog/

Posted by: ML at December 7, 2008 10:12 PM

Damn Cut and paste ran amuck.

Interesting web site, kinda strange if you are to see a crime happing in real time a few hundred miles away.

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ML, first, you need to learn about the difference between "degree" and "kind." Accusing you of being a fundamentalist, evangelical and then listing the sins of such people is NOT accusing you of being a "domestic terrorist." ~ Posted by: timb at November 24, 2008 08:35 AM

Really now?

Build your hospitals, reform your criminals, save the drunks from drinking, build your suburban palaces to "God," but stop suicide bombing or bombing the Olympics or shooting people at Mosques (I don't suppose you need links to suicide bombing or Eric Rudolph or Baruch Goldstein do you?)~Posted by: timb at November 21, 2008 08:46 AM

First of all the "but stop suicide bombing" makes it a direct accusation that I partake of such things or condone such actions, just another of your too numerous to mention straw-man arguments.

Now in reality a place you have never been, I wonder what the number of Islamic suicide bombings last week compared to Christian suicide bombers really are? Care to guess?

So, as for you and Dar and Eric Rudolph: Opposition to homosexuality -- check
Belief abortion is murder -- check
Fundamentalist beliefs -- check

That is very weakest of analogy. First of all only timb himself defines Eric as a Christian in spite of any evidence and only because his pigeonhole argument doesn't work without it and hasty generalizations. To call you an imbecile would a complement.

It's when people of faith start believing their beliefs mean they are better or morally superior to others that I begin to have problems.

Just another assumption to setup more straw-men, I never once said I was superior to others.
My lack of bible knowledge teaches me that all people are created in the image of God, thus we are all equal no one group or race is inherently less than others.

Morality is a different issue, I consider jihadist to be morally reprehensible, killing unarmed non-combatants is the height of cowardliness and injustice and Sharia with a woman being 1/3 of a man in court beside the many other things, I think that is morally inferior. If that is wrong then our laws themselfs are wrong and the ten commandments are wrong and America itself is wrong.

You, my friend, are the one seeking to keep fellow citizens from exercising their personal choice in whom they marry

More illogic straw-man BS, as I have repeated ad nauseam, domestic partnerships in California have the same exact rights as heterosexual marriage, no one is being denied any "rights".

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