Or will I be charged for sending the information to the police? (petty i know) What if I witness a crime that makes it a crime for me to witness because I didnt do anything to stop it? Will the act of sending in the image effectively nullify any rights I might have claimed under the fifth amendment? What if this becomes so common place that somebody else takes a picture of the crime with me in the background NOT reporting the crime? Will I be held responsible for stepping forward and providing information about the crime?

I'm starting to get a bit recursive with my questions, but I hope you all agree that these are some good questions to ask yourselves. As of now, this is an awesome progressive policy for a city to adopt, but when will it go from a good idea to a required idea?

By the way, loved the batman comment. Embarassingly I chuckled out loud, drawing the curious glances of co-workers.

you would think that hostage holders would know enough to relieve their victims of their cell phones

I was once at an injury accident once in which I was the closest non-involved witness. I heard some pretty wildly differing stories about what happened and some were flatly incorrect (I was directly behind the struck vehicle and saw the accident coming before anyone else-- including both drivers).

The point is that images don't tell the whole story but neither does anything else. But by putting images together with witnesses --- with time stamps on the images and possibly GPS information from teh phone if they dig for it--- they can tell a much more complete story.

I have no words to describe my ever-growing love for this city.

Anyway, this should be implemented everywhere, its an excelent idea... I just hope you don't get charged for the kb

I live in the tri-state area, and saw this on the news. I think this is a great idea. Of course, it opens up to more complications, as a picture can lie.