"Taser Wants to Build an Army of Smartphone Informants Axon, the world’s largest vendor of police-worn body cameras, is moving into the business of capturing video taken by the public. In a survey emailed to law enforcement officials last month, the company formerly known as Taser International solicited naming ideas for its provisionally titled Public Evidence Product. According to the survey, the product will allow citizens to submit photos or video evidence of “a crime, suspicious activity, or event” to Evidence.com, the company’s cloud-based storage platform, to help agencies “in solving a crime or gathering a fuller point of view from the public.” Civil rights advocates interviewed by The Intercept were surprised to learn about the corporation’s latest initiative, seeing it as yet another untested effort to co-opt community oversight and privatize criminal justice..." https://theintercept.com/2017/09/21/taser-wants-to-build-an-army-of-smartphone-informants/
Almost everyone I have known in my entire life have something to hide. Mostly illegal drug use. If they start such a thing as getting paid to use snartphones to snitch on people there won't be many left outside of prison!
It's more than that - a relative is a cop, and he can guarantee that out of the 12ft or something of the criminal code, there's always something that upstanding people will be guilty of. Even lawyers who spend time getting rich on it don't know it all. Which means that there are no innocent, just the ignorant. Hence the Richlieu saying.