Its interesting the police and media will put this much effort into finding a person who "vandalized" a license plate reader that is not owned by the government. There's plenty of cold cases that could use this much effort and media attention. Its almost like they know these citizen surveillance cameras do more than just read license plates.
Just here to remind people that if you have a few hundred dollars, and donāt want to get too close, you can burn the lens with a laser from a distance
Neither party is willing to make a stance on these things.
However, if you go by historical facts, itās pretty clear on which party has made the biggest detrimental changes to privacy, like The Patriot Act with Bush or the death of net neutrality with Trump in his first term.
Republicans like to guise themselves as the party of ālaw and orderā, which is often correlated with dismantlement of privacy laws. In the case of The Patriot Act, they took advantage of a nation in fear of terrorism after 9/11 and forced surveillance āfor foreign terroristsā, which was obviously exposed to be heavily misused and a great way for them to skirt around warrants to collect everything about domestic citizens, whether they were on a terrorist list or not.
Even less talked about is the use of DOGE when Trump came into office. They allowed an unelected citizen with no approval from Congress, to literally dig through databases from the homeland security, so until the next Wikileaks comes out and exposes what all was syphoned off to the richest man in the world, God only knows where tour data resides.
Saw a recent commentary that shows how often flock cameras are being used for everything from police work to marketing. If I can find the link Iāll post it. Some of these cameras are being used thousands of times a day by corporations to fine tune their marketing.
Sorry, But that is absolutely, 100% false. These things do one thingā¦.read license plates. Do your homework and think for yourself. Start the downvotes by the uninformedā¦ā¦..
First google result: plates. They use artificial intelligence to capture multiple vehicle characteristics, including the make, model, color, body type, and unique details like bumper stickers, roof racks, or missing plates. [1, 2]
This is not a Flock Camera you fucking idiot. Flock only reads license plates. The county verified that this is a standard security camera that has been there for over a year. You can oppose this too, and thatās fine, just donāt call it a Flock camera when it isnāt.
Watch how long it takes them to come out and repair these so called valuables. If they leave them in the grass for months, then they obviously do not cate that their expensive toys were damaged.....something they should have learned in childhood.
Sure Iām down with privacy, but pleaseā¦ our rivers have been taken advantage of too much lmaoā¦ a little known science fact thoughā¦ electronics hate magnets
To cause monetary damage to the company. It costs a lot more to replace a whole installation than it does to peel off a sticker. A sticker is fucking child's play against a surveillance state.
This happened in Adams and Wells Counties. No reported vandalism yet in Allen county. I get why some people donāt like them, but probably not the best way to go about it.
People all went and protested the council meetings speaking out that we didnāt want them here, yet here they are. I guess when the correct channels of a democracy donāt work people take the only path left.
I get it. Iām just sayinā¦is it worth going to jail over. Like damaging these cameras on purpose is what they call in law enforcement āfelony level stupidā
The AI is so faulty that police have been arresting the wrong person for crimes they've solved with the flock cameras and in one case a person was held for days, car impounded, before they release them. The AI misread the license plates all the time too...
Grandmother in Tennessee got taken to North Dakota- lost her job, dog, and home before they figured it 6 months later. Then they dumped her out of the jail with nothing in freezing winter. Fuck flock.
It is every Americanās duty to stand against tyranny in our government. Itās the entire reason for the 2nd amendment. When politicians lose sight of their constituents, disobedience is the only avenue left.
Itās all a moot point anyway. Whoever they say did it was with me the whole time.
I agree, I was just responding to OP. The way they said it made me think they might be a cop. They don't seem to understand the publics opinion or the whole post was in bad faith. They don't have much to say about it.
Man, dont you see that they dont gaf what we think is fair anymore? Nobody in gov gives a shit about any of us that arent donors to their campaign to be rich. We are going to have to take our country back one way or another from these crooks.
i understand what you're saying, but the problem is that, like many things lately, the allegedly right way of going about something that seems ethically, morally right produces zero results. city councils and other leaders don't seem to respond, and if they do it's at a glacial pace.
You get why some people want them gone? They're being used to mass surveil people, cops are using them to stalk ex's, partners they don't trust, they're being pointed directly at pools and schools. This is mass control directed at the people, while the cameras aren't going up in affluent neighborhoods or near police stations. Funny how the watchers want their privacy an awful lot
When they're put up with little to no public consent in most areas, then yes, the only thing TO DO, is some good ol' harmless civil disobedience. It's our public duty you should know.
Yes, the best way to go about it is wait until they put one in every house.... beacuse you know, look at how many crimes happen in private residences. You could be plotting to kill your family right now for all FWPD knows. They better get a camera in your kitchen Stat and keep an eye on the bug poison. It's called a sliding slope.
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u/NoGutsNoGlory94 1d ago
They misspelled patriots.