re: Flock cameras lead to another innocent motorist pulled over at gunpoint

This isn’t a Flock failure, it’s a failure on behalf of the agency who didn’t remove the plate off the hot list. The cameras did what they were programmed to do

The problem was not the camera.
The problem was with humans failing to update their data entry responsibility.

This sucks but it happened before Flock cameras.

It’s like the era of the 90s when people were blaming SUVs for car accidents.

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You have no privacy when you're out in public.

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Privacy and farming your information for profit or tracking are entirely different.

Those who love government disagree though.

Is it just me or does anyone else think Flock Cameras are 2026s version of Murder Hornets.

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But when Brookfield Police called Milwaukee Police Department, MPD said they no longer needed the car or the people inside, so officers let them go.

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If they had to call the other police department directly is this a 100% a flock issue or flock flagging car because the police’s system still incorrectly had the reported car as an active issue?

Meaning whether it was Flock, some existing license plate scanner attached to a cop’s car, the cop entering in the tag into a terminal, or the cop calling it into to dispatch would the car have still been flagged in their system?

Seems like it was the police’s network caused the other department leaving it active, and it would have been flagged even if plates just run the old fashion way.

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MPD said staff failed to remove a wanted vehicle alert from the system.

But when Brookfield Police called the Milwaukee Police Department, MPD said they no longer needed the car or the people inside, so officers let them go.

FOX6 News reached out to MPD to learn why that car was still active in the Flock system. The department said it was not a Flock issue, but a personnel issue – staff failed to remove a wanted vehicle alert from the system.

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What’s next? Suing a restaurant because someone misused their hot coffee?

Suing Glock because someone used it to murder?

Suing a pencil company because someone was stabbed with it?

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Dumb

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Meaning whether it was Flock, some existing license plate scanner attached to a cop’s car, the cop entering in the tag into a terminal, or the cop calling it into to dispatch would the car have still been flagged in their system?

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What's the utility of using a system that's far more invasive (flock cameras) than previous technology, but is functionally only as good as the previous system, but with far more downsides? I am struggling to see the justification for this system in a functional sense, and that's ignoring the legal and constitutional issues.

How many of you are going to take down the cameras outside your house?

This is obviously true. This stuff is new. There are always kinks that need to be ironed out.

Do you hate your boss or ex spouse?

Steal a random car tag. Wait 30-60 days for the stolen tag # to get in the flock system. Put stolen tag on your targets car. That's going to be tough to explain when they get pulled over.