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[E.M @esmacelenn]

Hakkımı helal etmiyorum. Bu sistem yüzünden adalete olan inancımı yitirdim. Merkezi atama ile çok rahat bir şekilde atanacağım puanla mülakatta elendim. Ne yazıkki benim gibi çoğu kişinin de hakkı yenildi. Yazıklar olsun. @tcailesosyal @deryayanikashb

[Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok]

MORE police threatening to ARREST Christians on public property

Fort Wayne, Indiana, Police Officer threatens to ARREST Christian for trying to enter a FREE "Arab Fest" being held in a public park.

Christian: "Am I being ordered out by threat of arrest?"

Officer: "Yes"

Cc @AAGDhillon

[End Wokeness @EndWokeness]

Redditors decided to meet up in real life

It looks exactly how you would expect

[David J Harris Jr @DavidJHarrisJr]

Apparently, Garth Brooks wants to re-engage with all the country music fans that turned their backs on him because of his anti-MAGA and woke views.

What’s your response to him?

[Celebrity-Daily @curious_media]

Here’s which Love Island USA season eight contestant earned the most Instagram followers #news #LoveIslandUSA #Season8 #RealityTV #InstagramFollowers #LoveIslandCast https://t.co/nwXvcUh8dd

[Longhorns Wire @LonghornsWire]

Minnesota Twins draft former Longhorns reliever Thomas Burns in 8th rd

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[Juan Caballero TV @Jmctv651]

*Secretary of State Marco Rubio:* 'The USA will work with our allies to dismantle the ICC.'

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[ironman2005 @ironman20054]

Rumors are flying that Trump may be resigning tonight. He has continually embarrassed his people, alienated the USA from trade partners, and illegally profited from the stock market. It is expected that he has been offered immunity if he steps down tonight. Wild and exciting news

[JUST THE TRUTH 𝕏² @JUSTTHETRUTHTV]

welcome to China... USA!
**"Welcome to China... USA!"** is a sharp, increasingly common sarcastic shorthand for the rapid rollout of automated license plate reader (ALPR) networks like **Flock Safety** combined with GPS/cell location capabilities. These create detailed, searchable records of vehicle movements—your "PHCYCO PATHS" (psycho paths)—that feel dystopian to many observers.

You're pointing to real technologies and real trends. Here's a clear, multi-angle breakdown with facts, context, documented examples, legal nuances, and implications.

### Flock Safety ALPR Cameras: What They Actually Are

Flock Safety sells AI-powered cameras (often pole-mounted with solar power) that automatically read license plates, capture images of the vehicle (including "vehicle fingerprinting" details like make, model, color, stickers, damage, or modifications), record exact time and location, and upload everything to a cloud database.

**Scale (as of mid-2026 data):** Roughly 80,000–100,000+ cameras across 5,000–6,000+ U.S. communities and law enforcement agencies. Data is typically retained ~30 days and is searchable by participating police without a warrant for historical queries in most setups. One search can pull from thousands of cameras across jurisdictions because the system is interconnected.

**West Jordan / Utah relevance:** The West Jordan Police Department has used Flock ALPR cameras (as of 2025 reporting). Local residents have noted specific installations, including one at a Home Depot entrance on 7800 South. Dozens of Utah agencies participate. This is not abstract national news—it operates in your area.

These systems do **not** do facial recognition (per company claims), but the combination of plate + vehicle details + timestamps across a dense network effectively tracks *movements* of cars (and by extension, people) over time and geography. This is how "paths" get reconstructed.

### GPS and Location Tracking Layer

Direct GPS tracking of phones or vehicles (real-time or historical) generally requires a warrant under the 4th Amendment, thanks to the landmark *Carpenter v. United States* (2018) Supreme Court decision. The Court recognized that long-term cell site location information (CSLI) reveals intimate details of a person's life and constitutes a "search."

However:
- ALPR networks like Flock create a **mosaic** of location data points that can approximate GPS tracking without directly accessing a phone or car's GPS.
- Police can still get warrants for actual GPS data from car manufacturers (OnStar, etc.), insurance telematics, or apps.
- Real-time tools (Stingrays/IMSI catchers) and data-sharing practices add more layers.
- Result: Detailed "psycho paths" of where a vehicle (and likely driver) has been, often without individualized suspicion upfront.

### China Comparison: Parallels, Differences, and the "Welcome to China" Meme

**Similarities** people notice:
- Both create persistent records of movement in public spaces.
- Both enable broad, low-friction searches across large networks.
- Tech outpaces oversight; "mission creep" happens (initially sold for stolen cars/Amber Alerts, then used for far more).
- Public comments across platforms repeatedly say variations of "Welcome to China" or "Flock wants to turn us into China" when discussing these cameras.

**Major differences**:
- **China**: State-controlled Skynet system with 200–700+ million cameras, integrated facial recognition, social credit scoring, mandatory apps (WeChat tracks nearly everything), centralized political control, and minimal legal recourse. Goal includes social control and suppressing dissent.
- **US/Flock model**: Decentralized (thousands of local agencies + private company), private-public partnerships, 4th Amendment (imperfect) backstop, active litigation, city-level pushback, and no national social credit system. Flock claims customer (police) ownership of data.

It is **not** equivalent to China's system in scale, integration, or authoritarian intent. But the vehicle surveillance infrastructure being built *does* represent a significant expansion of the state's (and contractors') ability to track movements at population scale. The gap is narrowing in capability even if not in total control.

### Documented Benefits vs. Documented Problems

**Claimed benefits** (company and some departments):
- Faster recovery of stolen vehicles.
- Locating missing persons/fugitives.
- Solving cases (company cites thousands helped; some agencies report specific wins).

**Documented problems** (from investigations, not just theory):
- **Company conduct**: ACLU documented a pattern of Flock misleading city councils, police chiefs, and the public—e.g., falsely claiming no heat maps of vehicle movements (they do create them), denying federal data access then admitting contracts with CBP/DHS, and misrepresenting data-sharing with ICE.
- **Abuses exposed by EFF**: Analysis of millions of searches showed use for tracking protesters (specific demonstrations named), discriminatory targeting of Romani/Traveler communities (including slurs), and searches tied to abortion/reproductive healthcare (one query explicitly noted "had an abortion, search for female" and accessed 83,000+ cameras nationwide).
- **Recent actions**: LAPD let its Flock contract expire in July 2026 over privacy and data-control concerns. Other cities have ended or paused contracts. Vandalism of cameras has occurred in multiple places as protest.
- **Technical/privacy risks**: Reported vulnerabilities, potential for insider abuse (stalking cases documented), and the reality that one vague search term can sweep enormous networks.

**"Psycho paths" angle**: The core issue many raise is not one camera, but the *network effect*. A single query can reconstruct detailed travel histories across wide areas and time periods for people who are not suspects. This chills anonymity in public movement and creates rich datasets vulnerable to abuse, error, or mission creep.

### Legal and Practical Landscape + Pushback

- **4th Amendment evolution**: *Carpenter* protects against warrantless long-term digital location tracking. ALPR networks are testing the edges—some argue pervasive ALPR creates an analogous "search."
- **State/local variation**: Policies differ. Some states and cities are adding restrictions or ending contracts.
- **DeFlock project**: An open-source effort mapping tens of thousands of ALPR locations (including Flock) across the US. Flock's CEO reportedly called the project a "terroristic organization." The map exists precisely so people can see the density and, if desired, route around known cameras.

### Implications and Edge Cases

- **For individuals**: Your movements on public roads are increasingly logged in searchable databases. False positives happen (similar plates, errors). Data can flow between agencies. In contexts of local disputes with government (code enforcement, etc.), awareness of these tools matters.
- **For society**: Powerful tool against certain crimes, but dragnet collection on everyone shifts the default from "innocent until suspicion" toward constant logging. "If you have nothing to hide" ignores that *everyone* has private movements, associations, medical visits, etc., worth protecting from casual or abusive scrutiny.
- **Edge cases**: Use against political protesters or specific communities; data retention creating long "heat maps"; future integration with other tech (facial rec, voice, etc.); private entities (HOAs, retailers like Home Depot/Lowe's in some reports) feeding into police networks.
- **Counter-trend**: Real pushback is happening—cities dropping contracts, lawsuits, mapping projects, state privacy laws. Tech doesn't have to win by default.

**Bottom line**: The sarcastic "welcome to China" framing highlights a legitimate concern about the direction of vehicle surveillance infrastructure in the US. Flock-style ALPR + GPS capabilities *do* enable detailed "psycho paths" of movement that were impractical before. The systems have documented crime-fighting uses *and* documented abuses, misleading vendor behavior, and expanding scope.

It is not yet China's integrated authoritarian surveillance state, but the technological substrate for far more comprehensive tracking is being laid quickly through public-private partnerships with limited consistent oversight. Truth-seeking means recognizing both the utility for serious crime and the real civil liberties risks—especially when evidence shows overreach and weak guardrails in practice.

If you're asking because of local West Jordan/Utah context or general privacy strategy, the DeFlock map is one concrete tool people are using to understand exposure. Policy changes at the city/county level have stopped or limited these programs elsewhere. The technology is real; so is the debate over whether the "paths" it creates are worth the trade-offs.

[Alex Boykowich @ABCommunist]

CTV news anchor and a film critic (i.e. a pop culture fan) discuss Sam Neill. They show footage from and discuss the now-obscure TV miniseries Amerika, about a Soviet-ruled USA. Neill played a Soviet colonel in it. It was the news anchor who wanted it brought up.

[USA NEWS 🇺🇸 @usanewshq]

Bird helps police solve murder mystery by screaming her last words over and over

Watch the moment the cop finally realized what he was saying

[USA NEWS 🇺🇸 @usanewshq]

Kamala Harris “crazy eyes” show after she hugs her

We dodged such a massive bullet

[USA NEWS 🇺🇸 @usanewshq]

White girls are taking over the WNBA

[The Figen @TheFigen_]

This Mr. & Mrs. Smith scene where they realize they’re both spies is absolute cinema.

[Modern History @modernhistory]

Anne Hathaway in 2004 & 2026

[AstroScroll @astroscroll]

🚨 Alleged leaked NASA footage of the mysterious Black Knight satellite... 👀
A legendary object said to have orbited Earth for 13,000 years.

[Sufiyan @SufiyanGreentaj]

Spirit Airlines DESPISE this backpack carry-on

[jello @angelojello74]

Don’t get pissed at me for what I’m about to say. But sometimes I think my son might be dumb as shit. Who cuts a lawn and goes up and down a hill. I’ve told him for years that you go side to side. Just proves my point that none of my kids will ever listen to me.

[End Wokeness @EndWokeness]

"Teen" with a suspended license tried to pull the race card on the police. It didn't work:

[American AF 🇺🇸 @iAnonPatriot]

The next Crusade is going to be lit.