Flock Safety’s cameras did exactly what they were built to do.
They read the plate they saw, matched it against a bad “stolen” entry from a Los Angeles dealership, and alerted Plymouth police.
Four squad cars boxed in journalist Joel Feder outside a Kohl’s, even though the VIN was clean.
The system has no ability to express doubt or flag low-confidence reads.
A 7% error rate across 20 billion monthly scans means millions of false hits, delivered with equal certainty.
This is how private camera networks generate armed stops with no warrant and no accountability.
btw politicians who say this sort of stuff are paid millions of dollars by the fossil fuel industry to do so in order to prevent us from ever moving away from coal, gas, and oil.
i took a couple environmental-based politics classes in college and in every single class they quite literally say this would happen because of our unchanged behavior towards climate change so yeah it’s crazy but lowkey what did we think was gonna happen
In Finland, charging fees for tuition is illegal, which means rich kids have to mix with normal kids. That means rich families had to make sure the schools their children attended were good, which in turn prompted the wealthy to invest in public education.
Finland, take a bow.
🚨 Florida police tackled and broke a 15-year-old Black teen’s arm while searching for a white runaway they had just seen in a photo.
Judah Everage was on his knees with his hands in the air when officers slammed him to the ground near Wickham Park in Melbourne. He wasn’t the person they were looking for, but they still fractured his elbow. Body camera footage shows he was complying the entire time.
One officer has since resigned, but the others involved are still on the job.
This is what happens when police treat Black kids as suspects first and ask questions later. Disgusting.
Sources: Body camera footage / Local reporting