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@TCP31943702 @andrewwimer Yes.

And it isn’t the most powerful surveillance network. If a officer was using just Flock they would not be able to find you since there is no personal identifiable information in it. They can’t just type in Joe smith and find that person.

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@serrano_alej @a_y_denrunnels Catalytic converter theft is down 74% since 2022 another crime that LPr has significantly curtailed. This was a great investment by the state of Texas. Framing this as some sort of backroom deal is so disingenuous. This is a story of government identifying then solving problems

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@Kinger_DC With no lpr. Crime happens and police get a vehicle description. Black ford truck. Police are pulling over all Ford trucks to get the criminal. With LPr they can identify the correct black truck then only look for that specific one. Less every day citizens get caught up.

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@MassieNation19 https://t.co/Lpqqw390gx

[Michael Foster @realmfoster]

Flock just helped track down the alleged perpetrator of a hit-and-run that badly injured a 15-year-old girl.

I thought the cams weren’t used to solve serious crimes?

Can someone explain?

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@ee6ae37e0d124d0 @CharlesFLehman You can not watch video on a Flock LPR. That is a fact. You are misinformed.

[Ned Donovan @Ned_Donovan]

Flock has joined data centers, Covid vaccines, 5G towers, pasteurized milk and fracking in the pantheon of American moral panics. Its opponents believe it's abused by police with impunity, that it can track individuals as well as cars, and that it violates constitutional protections. None of that is true.

https://t.co/S4rvxvB7NM

What Flock actually does is allow police officers to be more precise, which means faster crime-solving and less intrusion on law-abiding citizens. Before Flock, finding a criminal in a car depended on a diligent officer watching the right road at the right moment, copying down a plate number at speed, and remembering it from the morning briefing's stolen-car hot sheet. It also meant hundreds of mistaken traffic stops.

Think of a Flock camera as a roadside barcode scanner. I've used it myself to locate a vehicle involved in a hit and run when all we had was a model and color. With that and an approximate time window, I found images of the car entering and leaving my jurisdiction—the second with a significant new dent. As British Chief Superintendent Geoff Dodd put it, ALPR cameras are "the best investigative tool we have had since the introduction of DNA analysis."

Flock's critics get one important thing right: police should intrude on law-abiding citizens' lives as little as possible. But they're mistaken about what Flock does. It lets officers be surgical, avoiding pulling over innocent people with all the risks that involves. More than anything, Flock allows the police to leave you alone.

New from me for @WorksInProgMag: a cop's case for Flock.

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@canuckmilkbags @aaron_renn Crime is way down nationwide since Flock and LPR has proliferated across the country. Police routinely call it the most important tool they use. What information are you looking at to say Crime has not been reduced.

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@wearethemedia17 @peterjhasson But there are dozens of not hundreds of examples every day.

If enforcement is not allowed to use a license plates to link vehicles to crimes then to find where a vehicle is at at a moment in time how do you expect them to find this person? Like provide the steps they can take

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@Bhess @peterjhasson So a women was questioned, but not arrested after her vehicle was in the area of a crime. That honestly sounds like a detective conducting an investigation. Not every lead is going to lead a detective to the criminal. Also Flock cameras specifically can not be used for ticketing

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@CharlesFLehman I’m a supporter of Flock but if you think the final number of cops identified for misusing the system with their tool that identifies misuse going back into the audits is going to be less then 500 your crazy.

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@andreTRwi @guy_that_C @JasonBassler1 It’s a time and resources thing. Do we want to be paying detectives who make over 100k a year spend days trying to connect third party gas station videos together, or pull the lpr data in seconds to solve a hit and run.

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@JustElexMaps @JMilesColeman What’s in Forest county?

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@lyfling83 @OrwellDay The PD released that in the Foia not flock.

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@kuug40k Because Gun Stores are a frequent targets of crime so the gun store owners bought the most effective technology to deter crime at a retail establishment, LPR cameras. It really is that simple.

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@JeremiahDJohns This is the exactly how I feel when I see something on Flock. A long list crimes solved and stats showing major crimes categories are dropping but then a handful of police abusing the database, and then hypotheticals about some made up future problems so Flock evil

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@MoundLore Since Flock has been deployed at scale auto theft is down 50 percent. Homicides are down 41% police clearance rates which are harder to track but are clearly up and law enforcement call lpr the most important crime fighting tool since DNA.

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@drewharwell @davidu Yes but all of these individual databases are separate. Have been flocked brings them together into one central database. Plus flock deletes the plate reads after 30 days. Have I been flocked database is forever.

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@OrwellDay But he wasn’t arrested for marijuana he was arrested on outstanding warrant. While searching Flock for the vehicle the officer identified travel patterns that the criminal in question had travel patterns that could have been marijuna related. Your framing is very disingenuous