Fantasy and Science Fiction

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.