The financial amount in Amber Newell’s lawsuit for violating her civil rights should be some number following by a lot of zeros!!
It is routine, business as usual, for the police to pick up the wrong person as a suspect. The duration of time before the police admit their mistake varies from instantly to never.
This is true with and without Flock, with and without other modern technology.
The risk is that the police/the government will mis-use this reality in a biased way to serve their agenda.
When I was in IL I was stopped by the police many times as a “suspect”. In most cases I was only inconvenienced for 10 or 20 minutes. In a few cases, or hours.
The most extreme case was intentional abuse by the Gang Crimes Unit which put me in Cook County Jail for 5 days. I was lucky. Both R and D County Prosecutors and political judges put innocent guys on death row for years for murders of which they had absolutely no connection and the prosecutors knew it. Both the R and D prosecutors did it as part of their ambition for higher office... Richie Daley for Chicago mayor, Jim Ryan for governor.