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From: demillo@uwmacc.UUCP (Rob DeMillo)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: Rape (A Solution)
Message-ID: <1308@uwmacc.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 20-Jul-85 01:02:27 EDT
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Posted: Sat Jul 20 01:02:27 1985
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Organization: UWisconsin-Madison Academic Comp Center
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> 
> There is no more reason for a women walking down the street to fear rape
> than a parent has to fear that their child will contract polio.
> 
> A cost effective solution to the problem of sexual attacks on women (as well
> as all forms of street crime) is putting a video camera on every street
> corner.  Each corner's camera would be able to rotate and thus observe at
> least half way down the street in four directions.  They can be mounted on
> separate towers or suspended on wire rope suspended between buildings or
> traffic lights.  The cameras would be enclosed in plexiglas to protect against
> the stones of vandals.  Using the cables for cable television, the cameras
> output would be transmitted to the police station.  
> 
> These cameras would totally eliminate street crime since it would
> be impossible to commit same without being caught.  It would be like
> having a cop at every corner at a fraction of the expense.  Any women
> walking alone would feel like they were being escorted with an escort
> that could summon the police instantaneously.  In addition the cameras
> could be connected to videotape systems to provide evidence in the
> event of a prosecution.  They could also be used to keep track of
> any person leaving the scene of a crime so the police could apprehend
> them easily.
> 
> Technology has eliminated such dangers as tuberculosis and polio to the
> point where they are no longer even talked about by the general populus.
> People were once fearful of catching these dread diseases.  Now they are no
> longer on people's minds.  In the 1980s, crime is the most feared thing on
> peoples minds.  The fear of rape has caused women to change their lifestyle,
> the jobs they take and where they live and have in one women's words,
> imposed an unwritten curfew.  Technology can eliminate this fear as well!

Uh-huh.

And what about the rapist/murderers that travel the highways? What
about our subway and freeway systems, what about a can of paint
on they ol' "big brother" eye?

Technology is fun, but there are  folks out there with problems...

To quote from "Airwolf:" 
   "...the machines keep getting smarter and smarter...people
    stay the same..."


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                           --- Rob DeMillo 
                               Madison Academic Computer Center
                               ...seismo!uwvax!uwmacc!demillo

 
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