I Reported on Flock's Cameras. Now I'm One of the System's Mistakes

pastemato

It should not be lost on anyone that this incident could have easily cost Joel Feder his life, all because of the officer's faith in ultimately faulty OCR results.

thot_experiment

Systems like flock cannot by their nature be good for the average person unless maybe they are democratically controlled with strict oversight and transparency. Tools to concentrate power are, and will always be used to oppress. Flock is not popular anywhere and that it's being implemented upon us rather than by us should have all of us smashing flock cameras whenever we see them. 1312

goatlover

I don't recall ever seeing a vote on this, yet somehow they are cropping up everywhere. When your representatives (local, state, federal) do things they weren't elected to do and didn't ask the public, really makes you reconsider how democratic the system is. Who are their actual constituents beyond getting votes for the next election?

Sprocklem

I mean, it seems pretty obvious to me that flock should be flagging this as a partial match in a very prominent way, so hopefully the police officers take a closer look and don't act recklessly. It is shoking to me that this wasn't included from the start.

m3047

Another journalist was picked up in a different state with another dealer plate (on a different vehicle) with the same partial match. TLDR: what's in Flock is a partial, but when Flock gives the pic they snapped to LEO they aren't giving what they alerted on they're giving what's in the pic they snapped and LEO is taking this pic with no provenance to the original report as gospel truth. https://www.thedrive.com/news/inside-the-flock-dragnet-how-s...

LocalH

Flock needs to be shut down, and their c-suite needs to be imprisoned as agents of the state for constitutional violations