My City Just Banned Flock After My Wrongful Stop Made National News
Markoff
36 points
5 comments
September 29, 2026
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Discussion Highlights (3 comments)
Markoff
Here is the video of the stop from body cam https://www.instagram.com/reel/Dal4EWpx-g8/
helsinkiandrew
The original stop story seems like a data entry problem that would/could have happened without Flock - wouldn't a stolen car/plate be entered in the FBI National Crime Information Center (NCIC) database and looked up by a cop elsewhere resulting in the same stop? Perhaps not as quickly. https://www.thedrive.com/news/how-flock-cameras-wrongly-trac... > A simple data-entry error, magnified and broadcast nationwide by a growing surveillance network operated through an opaque partnership between a private company and public agencies, led police to identify me as a car thief and set up a sting to take me down.
mmmlinux
Unless they are gone, they are still operating.