I see Flock being very useful if and only if every one who accesses it has to log in personally and state the reason for the access. No anonymous access to just anyone in the department.
Also needs to be a regular audit of usage by a civilian board.
And I don't think the "save the children" logic is a trivial thing.
Maybe if the information is only accessible with a legal warrant issued by a judge for a specific crime but even then it could still be abused by the private company that owns flock cameras
“Save the children” logic is not trivial it is typically intentional manipulation via emotions in an attempt to avoid presenting an actual supportable reasoned position.
People using it are more often not trying to support their point logically or rationally; they are trying to shut down such reasoning in an attempt to get their way through emotional bullying.
I agree, the Cops need to log in with a personally assigned account, at which point they become 100% PERSONNALY ACCOUNTABLE for ALL misuse of data they collect.
NO LONGER should TAX PAYERS be on the hook for these incidents.
How do those boots taste?