Throughout human history, people have been getting away with crimes
because of lack of evidence. We are now on the verge of eliminating
this problem, but we need a simple tool, a cellphone app, to make it
work. We have the technology, we just need some creativity and talent.
I don't know how to create the app we need, so I'm asking everyone to re-post this and pass it on to everyone else until it
reaches someone to knows how to make it. I hope that it'll be free and
open source, but if good-heartedness isn't enough to motivate someone
to create it, there is a large potential profit to the product.
Almost everyone has a cell phone now, even in the poorest parts of the
world, and most of those phones can take pictures or video. We need a
program that activates with one touch of an icon or button, that starts
the camera taking the best pictures it can as fast as it can or taking
the best vid it can, and inputting audio from the microphone, and sends
the audio and the pics or vid over the internet or phone to secure
online storage, and brings up an icon that dials 911 and puts the phone
into speaker-phone mode, so the user can keep shooting vid while talking
to 911. If the phone has GPS and compass functions, the program should
automatically upload the camera's location and direction to both the
online storage and 911. The online storage would not be accessible from
the phone. Requiring the use of a pre-designated hard-wired desktop
computer to alter or erase the recordings prevents a perpetrator at the
scene from coercing the holder of the phone into erasing the files.
Then when anyone sees a crime or feels threatened, they can immediately
create evidence that cannot be taken away by taking the phone, and that
cannot be destroyed by destroying the phone. Anyone who sees a crime,
accident, police misconduct, or disaster can capture it with one click,
then call 911 if they think it's advisable. When everyone has this, and
they get so used to having it that they use it at the first sign of
trouble without thinking about it, it will become very difficult to get
away with any violent crime.
Once the program is extremely
popular and well-known, it will have a powerful deterrent effect on it's
own. I'd call it Auto-Evidence. Once everyone knows about it, if you
think you're going to be mugged or raped or whatever, you can point your
phone at the suspect and yell; "I have Auto-Evidence on! If you come
any closer I'm calling 911!" At that point the intending perpetrator
knows that there is zero chance that they'll get away with a crime, and
they'll desist. Even if you don't have the program in the phone, the
threat will still be effective as long as the perp has heard of the
program, because he doesn't know that you don't have it.
Please, pass this on until it reaches someone who can make this dream a reality.
Wayne Edward Clarke.
