4 comments

  • loteck 21 hours ago ago

    In my city, our police recently reported that in one year, they searched the ALPR database 240,000 times.

    Of those searches, approximately 165 of them assisted any police case, in any way.

    What is ALPR being used for the other 99.8% of the time?

    • emptybits 20 hours ago ago

      Apparently Flock's ALPR helps police to track activists, demonstrators, protesters. :-/

      https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/11/how-cops-are-using-flo...

    • tzs 20 hours ago ago

      Are you assuming that any use that fails to assist on a place case must have been a use for for some other purpose?

      • clipsy 20 hours ago ago

        There are two possibilities: One is that Flock is genuinely only being used for legitimate law enforcement purposes and proves useful in less than 0.1% of cases -- a data point the taxpayers footing the bill certainly deserve to know; the other is that there are a very large number of illegitimate uses, which any reasonable citizen should oppose.

        Why are people like you so eager to defend Flock rather than simply expecting transparency on its uses?