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Local PD's asking for camera access
- Thread starter Huntfishcamp
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You should go for it!
But who else uses them? How many other departments can access your database?
I'm sure that your department doesn't download the data and keep it forever, but even Flock admits that anyone *can* download it, and then it's out of their hands.
Here's one example of how much this data is shared. This is a link to Thomasville, Georgia's transparency portal. Look at how many departments have access to their cameras, including the U.S. Postal Service.
Thomasville Flock
You can scroll to the bottom to see the number of cars scanned, and the number of "hits". As of this moment, 133,452 vehicles scanned, 21,725 "hot list" hits.
So are we to believe that almost 22,000 criminals passed through Thomasville, Georgia, in the past 30 days? 16% of the cars scanned? If you or I called the cops 22,000 times in a month to report a crime I think we'd be in big trouble.
You state they are a valuable tool, and maybe they are. If every single human had to have a tracking chip that would help police, too. Sure, that's ridiculous, but where is the limit?
"They're only used for expired tags". So, only looking for people that have wronged no one, but haven't paid the State. Seems about right.
So we should just trust the Big Data company (Flock), who is being paid by the State to do something that the Constitution prevents the State from doing. Hey, Flock pinky swears not to keep your data forever or build a database on you.
Go to a public parking lot next to the police station and start filming cars and see how quickly you get arrested; but when Flock films you and sells the info to the police, well, you have no expectation of privacy in public.
Not just no but **** no.
They can install two cameras in my house, one in the bottom of each commode looking out! 🤪
More like the Black Hole of Calcutta.
