There have been more than a dozen cases around the country where police use Flock to obsessively and illegally stalk people.
    • PineRune@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      5 days ago

      If they don’t get arrested for premeditated murder, then I doubt they’re actually getting in any trouble for planning the murder stalking.

      • WhoIzDisIz@lemmy.todayEnglish
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        5 days ago

        This close to election time, they’re probably putting on a show — all charges will be quietly dropped after the first week of November.

        • FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          5 days ago

          Yup.

          I was more than a little proud that my city had the balls to prosecute and imprison a killer cop. Our governor pardoned this bastard shortly after taking office and now the motherfucker’s back on the street.

          It’s all 100% performative.

  • captainlezbian@lemmy.worldEnglish
    26·
    5 days ago

    I’m surprised they’re being arrested for stalking, usually they don’t face even the threat of consequences for that

  • yestalgia@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8·
    5 days ago

    Can someone post the full article in a comment? I tried workarounds to read the full article but nothing worked.

    • ITGuyLevi@programming.devEnglish
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      2 days ago

      This is all I could see in reading mode (a little more than where it faded to nothing)…

      Cops Keep Getting Arrested for Using Flock to Stalk People Jason Koebler 2 - 3 minutes

      For months during the summer of 2024, Jarmarus Brown, an Orange City, Florida police officer, ran his ex-girlfriend’s license plate through the Flock automated license plate reader (ALPR) system lookup database at least 69 times. He searched for the license plate belonging to her mom at least 24 times, and searched for the license plate belonging to her dad at least 15 times. Brown’s searches were happening so often, and were so commonplace, that even one of his colleagues noticed Brown researching his ex-girlfriend’s whereabouts while the law enforcement officers sat in their police cruisers, according to court records obtained by 404 Media.

      “While they were sitting there, Officer [Shadrich] King noticed Jarmarus was on the Flock system and a license plate reader image of [Brown’s ex-girlfriend] was on the screen,” a police affidavit about Brown’s behavior obtained by 404 Media reads. “Officer King said he mentioned to Jarmarus that he needed to stop running her vehicle in that system because he could get in trouble. Jarmarus responded saying that he knew that, and he was going to stop.” Flock’s automated license plate readers document every car that drives past them, creating a broad network of people’s movements around the country. Police can then look up license plates to learn where a specific car and, by extension, person, has traveled over time.

    • Zephorah@discuss.onlineEnglish
      26·
      5 days ago

      Those random, public space cameras with the little solar panel and the blue flashing light in parking lots and such.

      Accessing for crime data is supposedly what they’re used for, but some of these guys are accessing to stalk ex wives, girlfriends, or “love” interests.

    • appauled@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      17·
      5 days ago

      You gotta look it up but they use ai to track people and the US government installed them in almost every major city. They’re also really incredibly bad security wise, you can just walk up to them and connect and download the videos on any smart phone

      • GalacticRobot@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        5 days ago

        Oh wait until you hear about them partnering up with SignalTrace. When they capture your license plate, they then will capture any wireless signals associated with the license place (wifi, bluetooth, tracking tags, ect) and then can easily build a profile about you without needing your license plate in the future.