re: Update:Flock cameras lead to innocent motorist pulled over at gunpoint- twice

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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 or other authorities.

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.

Hopefully they get paid.

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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

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Lol wtf kind of point is this

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I'd rather have some crime with more freedom than vice versa, but that's just me.

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Until facial recognition technology works on crime people and doesn’t identify them as a large mammal that doesn’t live on this continent then flock cameras are just another tax on productive citizens

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

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I'm not, but im not logging license plates and storing descriptions of cars and people walking down the street when they do pick up someone. And selling that info.

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 If the system is only as good as what it's supposed to replace, with far more downsides

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You are starting with opinions, not facts.

Can you answer this question?

If the system has more capabilities than the one it replaces, with far more upside, along with some downside ...

I am not claiming that either is true.

Having guns drawn on you twice in a week? Damn. Should have danced the second time and gone viral.

These type cameras will be sending you tickets in the mail in no time, probably for illegal lane violation.

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The way government handles this situation is taking away the offending product from citizens that can handle the responsibility.

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You do realize that if the dept didn’t remove the bolo, a beat cop could have seen the vehicle with the same outcome ???

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If we didnt have the cameras this wouldn't have happened

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again, this was a human failure, can you cite how many instances this has happened vs all the violent crime it solved?