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		stickfigure on Oct 30, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Epstein's injuries look more like murder than suic... What makes you think the cameras were working beforehand? They could have been this way for months or years. What percentage of cameras on BART trains are working at any given time? When was the last time you tested your backups?

magduf on Oct 30, 2019 | [–]

If they had been broken for a long time before this, why would they put the highest-profile prisoner in the entire country in there without fixing them first, or moving him to a cell where the cameras do work?

stickfigure on Oct 31, 2019 | [–]

The simple answer is that's just not how bureaucracies work.

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