Posted on 12/02/2025 11:56:33 AM PST by yesthatjallen
Hours before the sun rose on Dallas police Chief Daniel Comeaux’s first day on the job, an elderly man in a wheelchair was shot dead near Fair Park.
Two days later, the new chief stood among a cluster of officers outside the suspected gunman’s home in west Oak Cliff. He was impressed by one tool the investigators had used to arrive there: the network of license plate-reading cameras scattered across the city.
“I was like, ‘Alright,’” Comeaux recalled saying, referencing the April case months later in an episode of Bridging the Divide, the Assist the Officer Foundation’s podcast, “‘explain this whole Flock camera.’”
Investigators tied the suspect to a second fatal shooting earlier the same month. The story, Comeaux said, was one of his favorites to tell. The chief described how the clarity of the vehicle images surprised him and how officers, with those photos in hand, were able to build a case for the arrest.
The license plate-reading cameras, usually mounted on 12-foot poles, have quickly become standard in police departments across the country, including the Dallas Police Department. Documents recently obtained by The Dallas Morning News through open-record requests indicate Dallas police utilize hundreds of the cameras across the city.
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The company markets what it calls its “vehicle fingerprint technology,” a system that doesn’t just read license plates but analyzes a vehicle’s make, model, color and other cosmetics — like bumper stickers or decals — to flag it across a network of cameras.
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A Public Safety Technology Ecosystem.
Cities are being sued over these cameras.
Isn’t it wonderful?
Cameras all over town monitoring everything, every move....Just to keep us safe! And many towns are now using taxpaid cash for drones so the cops are able to make sure your backyards are safe too!
Drive a plain white Chevy or Ford pickup, with New Mexico plates (no front plate).
Make sure to get the inset bumper that blocks side views.
Put spacers on the top bolts of plate, so it tilts down. Up to a 20% tilt is legal. This blocks most camera views from the top.
Paint the plate with flat clear paint, two cans worth. Then tape it off in the “Dazzle” pattern of WWI battleships. Spray on two coats of high gloss. This is invisible but stops many daytime readings unless they are right behind you.
Get a lighted backup license plate frame. Don’t worry about the camera, but wire so the infrared LEDs are “on” at all times. This also helps defeat cameras, especially at night or dusk/dawn. Two are even better.
Studies have shown that the above combo defeats the FLOK system over 95% of the time.
If you are really motivated, have big magnetic signs on the truck that you remove when desired.
All of this is legal, excepting perhaps the paint and that’s not for sure.
This is how it started in the UK. Cameras everywhere.
“I am perpetual, I keep the country clean!”
Anyone giving any stock of this as to think the Government gives two $hits about you thinks waaaayyy to highly of themselves. Truly…
And, if you believe they don’t know everything about you already should they choose to deep dive into your life….again, you think too highly of yourself to believe that or are living in a bubble of alternative reality.
I read where Portland(?) shut off these cameras because they thought that ICE might use them to track illegals.
There is a distinction between License Plate Readers (LPRs) and Traffic Cameras (TCs). The LPRs read and store license plates but have no ability to catch speeders or red light runners. The LPRs are used when law enforcement has a known license plate they are looking for (stolen vehicle, kidnapping vehicle, etc) and the system will alert law enforcement when the vehicle passes a LPR location. Used properly within a strict legal framework LPRs are a good tool for law enforcement. Traffic Cameras are another matter entirely - I hate them wholeheartedly.
Please don’t shoot the messenger but a missing license plate rebellion is overdue.
Social media in our city was reporting a few catalytic convertor thefts, a week. City installed those about a year ago. Don’t recall the last time I have heard of a cat being stolen. Not really a fan of the cameras, but . . .
Big Brother is here, and has been for some time now.
22 states don't require a front license plate, including all the states bordering Texas. Fortunately, Alaska also doesn't require a front license plate. It makes the front of my vehicles look so much cleaner.
They do that in Denver. I live well over 200 miles away and never get near a toll road (Loop 225) but started getting tickets in the mail for not paying tolls. I would call in and explain, they canceled 3 tickets. Finally a clerk looked up the photo and said, “It’s the same kind of truck and “they’ve got plate holder makes the “U” look like an “O”. I’ll add a note to your file and you shouldn’t get any more tickets.” So far so good for almost a year. Machines require oversight, just like humans.
All of those are good.
NM has a yellow plate with burnt orange lettering. It’s the lowest contrast plate and hardest for the cameras to read.
If ever approved but hopefully not.......
A device/pin/or what ever it could be called
is not that far away from having a human ID
no matter were you are. Then comes the heart
pump that keeps pumping for ever...
Just went to a Christian Men’s Group meeting last night. The topic of the evening was: Cybersecurity.
“Flock” came up. It is total scummery. It is a private company that collects plate numbers (or identifies the same car due to things like bumper-sticker patterns on previously identified cars that have since hid their plates by legal means) and SELLS this data to government agencies at ALL levels and is simply a revenue stream for them. That’s all.
Local, state, and federal operations buy the data to surveil without having to go through that pesky warrant “thing” and they aren’t included in any FOIA requests that are made.
Sound fishy?
Remember when the Biden administration was trying to partner with private firms to acquire geolocation data “to take the burden off of government agencies”?
This is exactly what they were talking about doing. It was billions of dollars to bypass warrants and hide information from FOIA requests.
You can also request that your information be removed. And they will remove it, no questions asked.
But next time you drive by one of those Flock cameras, you will be back in their database.
And if you conceal your plate from cameras by putting a cover on them which is visually clear to the human eye but confuses the cameras.
But they use AI to identify cars based upon the bumperstickers and their location on your car.
Scum.
Further-they are integrated with facial recognition technology. Which is pretty powerful nowadays.
See my post above-these are being used to bypass legal protections.
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