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

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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.

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Whats the utility of blaming a system for a specific incident just because you hate it when you know it wasn’t the true cause of the issue. Plate readers, calling in plates, and getting bad or expired data on those plates from other police departments all existed before Flock and independent of Flock.

There have been errors made by cops calling in plates or manually entering in the plates that have caused similar issues. There was something like that in Frisco, Texas several years ago where a female cop used the wrong state of the plate or something like that making it look like fake plates on a stolen vehicle. Car got pulled over at gun point. Plate readers have actually helped to avoid human errors like this, but neither readers or humans entering the plates correctly can avoid bad data left in place by other cops.

Before Flock I was pulled over for bad data in the system. It just incorrectly stated that I had an expired registration, so I was only pulled over to get a ticket for expired registration not with guns drawn for being an expected murderer (wasn’t even speeding or anything else but just had plates run by a cop behind me at a stop light).

Regardless of what you selectively chose to quote from article it wasn’t a Flock camera error, but it was a police reporting error which needs to be corrected as it could have ended much worse regardless of how the plate was called in. If police are going to flag a vehicle for a homicide they better damn well remove it immediately once it’s been cleared. That is the issue here.