🚨WHAT ON EARTH?!!!
Over 100 Flock cameras that were set to "go dark" at the end of June after city council voted to shut them down...
...have bizarrely just REMAINED ON and the police are still using them
On June 17, the city council's safety committee voted to END the contract because when they asked police to prove these cameras actually reduce crime, the police could point to only 3 cases that led to convictions.
So the city council let the contract expire on June 29th, but then people noticed the cameras were still up...
...because Flock VOLUNTEERED to keep running them for FREE while the city "figures it out."
In fact, police confirmed they are still running them to "keep the community safe" and the company agreed to keep the system live, despite the contract expiring.
It gets worse.
When reporters asked simple questions like... is data still being collected? Do the cameras shut off or keep recording? Who can access what was already stored? It turned out that neither the city NOR Flock would answer.
So just to recap:
The contract is expired.
The elected body said no.
Nobody re-authorized it.
Flock won't say what it's doing with the data.
...but the cameras are STILL ON and being used by police
Why is no one talking about them? Oh, I forgot.
They're Palestinians. If they had been Ukrainians, they would have been mentioned during every FIFA World Cup 2026 match.
people on this website treat me like i am the biggest villain and i just want them to have healthcare, autonomy in their workplace, and for us to end our endless wars
Anne Frank cousin says as a Jew I speak out very clearly against the genocide in Palestine
“My great cousin anne If she were alive today she would speak out against the killing of Palestinians”
It really pisses me off how all this legislation is trying to use "protect the kids " as a scapegoat but when the kids exercise free speech, suddenly it's a problem. The blatant hypocrisy is disgusting.
This is wage theft! While this might seem like an isolated issue for just @DoorDash drivers, wage theft is the LARGEST form of theft in America. We shouldn’t have to worry about whether our employers are stealing from us. No wonder app drivers like those at @Uber and @lyft are demanding and winning their union!
House GOP out here cutting ads for Dems:
NEHLS: Affordability? What are you talking about? I'm gonna go there tomorrow. I'm gonna get me a couple of big lobster tails. I'm gonna get me some nice ribeyes.
MT: Do you think the 60% of Americans living paycheck to paycheck can afford lobster tails and rib eyes and all of that?
NEHLS: Maybe not. Maybe the 60% of Americans don't work as hard as I do.
They have NO IDEA what’s coming in November.
There’s a reason for Clarence Thomas’s blatant, in-your-face corruption. That piece of shit knows he’ll never be held accountable. And let’s not forget that his terrorist wife was a key organizer of January 6. Anita Hill tried to warn us all.
US Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin after Iran’s World Cup elimination:
“I’m just glad they’re done, and they’re not coming back. I was so happy when we were able to pull their visas and said they could leave U.S. soil, and I might’ve sung a song or maybe even danced a happy dance.”
What an absolutely deranged thing to say after the U.S. rigged the World Cup against Iran by making them travel back to Mexico between every game, reducing their rest, recovery, and practice time.
This only reinforces to the world that the United States is nothing more than a cruel empire that gets off on bullying and subjugating other countries.
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas was caught sneaking out of speaker Mike Johnson’s office.
A Supreme Court justice should not have a private meeting with the speaker of the house.
What were they talking about?
Extremely shameful that Kohen Wiley’s murder has not gained more attention. This baby was killed by the police, and nothing has been done, and it’s being swept under the rug.
Buying rent stabilized property with the goal of lobbying the government to jack up working people’s rent is such scumbag behavior. Guy is already worth $100 billion but he wanted to put families out on the street to grab a few more crumbs. Sociopathic economic system