This is your periodic reminder that Flock Safety is only the tip of the problem.
Some districts are de-Flocking only to install an Axon ALPR network service. Keep fighting until your community outlaws all ALPRs and ALPR lookups are inadmissable in court.
There are other technologies that are already in use and widely abused by law enforcement such as IMSI catchers, geofence warrants and Drones as First Responder. Learn what your district allows and be a civil nuisance untill that shit is blocked.
Judges have long ceased tightly constraining judicial warrants, and most courts accept the good faith exception, so US and state courts cannot be trusted with any overreaching surveillance technology or forensic tools. This includes chromatic field drug tests and detection dogs.
Let’s be clear here, “solving crime” is just “violating your rights” with “because presumably a Judge allowed it” sauce on top.
can we also aim this at ring cameras?
If Flock was really useful it should be pretty easy for them to produce statistics showing as much.
The fact that they can’t or won’t says a lot.
An estimated 460,000 children go missing in the US every year. Flock cameras have not helped to solve this problem one iota.
Flock cameras are being used to stalk ex-girlfriends, surveil recreational pot users, harass women who get abortions, and creep on children.
They were never meant to solve crimes.
Also what percentage of those missing children are part of estranged parents or relatives.
A thing the flock cameras will never really be able to help with (even if they were reliable and intelligent).
this is what I came here to say. Flock/mass surveillance will never be used to our benefit.
Seems like this picture could be applied to most new tech.
The crime of being a dissident or simply not wanting to be advertised to constantly
FBI: It’s the same picture.
