Your body cam dollars just went way up dummy
Listen— I'ma say this once, and you probably won't believe it, but that body camera program for the Baltimore Police Department? The one we already payin' through the nose for? Yeah, well, get ready for that bill to *triple*. All because of AI. Yeah, artificial intelligence, the same thing makin' all those weird images online, is now gonna cost us an arm and a leg for police accountability. They say it's for processing all that footage, makin' it easier to find what they need. Sounds like a whole lotta wooder under the bridge to me, hon.
### The Real Cost of "Smart" Tech
I'm tellin' ya, my jaw dropped when I read that in the *Baltimore Banner*. We're talkin' about a program that already has folks up in arms about privacy and how effective it even is. Now, they're tellin' us AI, which is supposed to make things *more* efficient, is gonna make it *more* expensive. It ain't just about the cameras anymore, it's about the backend, the storage, the analysis – all that fancy tech that needs serious cash.
* **Current Costs:** Already significant, funded by our tax dollars. * **AI's Impact:** Expected to triple those existing costs. * **The "Why":** Primarily for processing and analyzing the vast amounts of video footage.
That's Baltimore, hon — we don't break, we just bend loud. And right now, my back is bendin' thinkin' about those taxes going up so some computer can watch our police. When you think about the potholes on North Avenue, or the folks out there tryin' to make Lexington Market work, it's like, where are our priorities? We need to be real about where our money goes and if it's actually makin' our city safer or just linein' some tech company's pockets.
You gotta hear the crew on this tomorrow morning — they'll have all the smoke, live at mornings.live.