Yeah..and I only have so many hands, and seconds, to work with.

There are a few kinks to be worked out. What about those of us who choose to have stupid phones. Armed is good.

so, if a crime is committed right in front of your face, you don't report it?

Many things that are regulated as crimes aren't crimes against people or property. NSA can already turn your phone's camera and audio on without your knowledge, the cops will soon do the same. Now you're just asking the citizens to do the same against other citizens. You don't need an automatic transmitting system to record this kind of stuff as is evidenced by all the police abuse videos.

Meanwhile you walk around with everyone around you being a fink for the government. <br />

it is not. already phones have been successfully used to point out police brutality among other misuses of authority. what would be 1984 is the police exercising some "right"to know what phones were in the area around the time a crime was committed and contacting the owners either to check for evidence or locate a suspect.

OMG.... 1984. <br /><br />Crime prevention is evil. <br />

A panic button on the phone might work. I tried to hit 911 without the gunman noticing, and it didn't work.

Yes!

I totally agree. If I'm on a public street I don't have an expectation of privacy. I have mixed feelings on this type of tech. I'd like to have had a cops there faster when I needed one, although they were quick and I had no idea that I could leap stairs 3 or 4 at a time, and maybe they could have caught him. If I had won the tug of war over his gun I'd have blown his assets away and that would also have been a good result.

Video might be good for capturing a criminal in action to prove they were the perpetrator, but if I'm the victim of his crime is my phone the first thing I should go for? Am I missing something?