• Grimy@lemmy.world
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    17 hours ago

    It will be easier to ban them if they are shown to be ineffective because of constant vandalism. There’s much less incentive to keep them and it becomes an easy win for politicians.

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      16 hours ago

      Yup. “We don’t have the funds to replace them this year.” Next year, “We’re not going to buy new ones because they’ll just get destroyed and we’ll have to replace them again.”

    • who@feddit.orgOP
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      16 hours ago

      Is there precedent on record for that scenario playing out as you describe, or is it just wishful thinking?

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        14 hours ago

        I don’t have any firsthand experience with the cameras, but I knew a guy that lived in a trailer park where they put in these particularly obnoxious speed bumps. They were always all vandalized in under a week, after which they would be replaced after increasingly long periods until they eventually stopped.

        Companies and governments have budgets that can get overrun and force their decisions regardless of their desires.