VetOfTheSeas@discuss.online to THE POLICE PROBLEM@lemmy.worldEnglish · 13 days agoPolice Keep Losing Their Jobs For Using Flock Cameras To Stalk Peoplewww.motherjones.comexternal-linkmessage-square16linkfedilinkarrow-up1252cross-posted to: usa@lemmy.ca
arrow-up1252external-linkPolice Keep Losing Their Jobs For Using Flock Cameras To Stalk Peoplewww.motherjones.comVetOfTheSeas@discuss.online to THE POLICE PROBLEM@lemmy.worldEnglish · 13 days agomessage-square16linkfedilinkcross-posted to: usa@lemmy.ca
minus-squareOwOarchist@pawb.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·13 days agoNow if only they could be arrested and see prison time for it… You know, like anybody else would get for abusing public trust and misusing their employer’s equipment in order to commit the crime of stalking.
minus-squarequick_snail@feddit.nllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·12 days ago identified at least 24 similar cases nationwide of officers using automated license-plate reader (ALPR) cameras like Flock to stalk romantic interests over the past two years. Nearly all of those officers were criminally charged and lost their jobs.
minus-squareOwOarchist@pawb.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·12 days agoGot any sources on them getting criminally charged?
minus-squarequick_snail@feddit.nllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·12 days agoYeah, Mother Jones is a highly reputable source https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/07/police-losing-jobs-flock-cameras-alprs/
Now if only they could be arrested and see prison time for it…
You know, like anybody else would get for abusing public trust and misusing their employer’s equipment in order to commit the crime of stalking.
Got any sources on them getting criminally charged?
Yeah, Mother Jones is a highly reputable source
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/07/police-losing-jobs-flock-cameras-alprs/