Posted on 11/10/2025 8:04:43 AM PST by xxqqzz
When a Columbine Valley police officer showed up at Chrisanna Elser’s home in Denver, he was certain he had caught a thief.
Sgt. Jamie Milliman knocked on the door, summons in hand, and accused Elser of stealing a package from the doorstep in the neighboring town of Bow Mar, only 50 feet south.
The proof, according to Milliman: Footage from Flock surveillance cameras showing Elser’s forest green Rivian driving through the town from 11:52 a.m. to 12:09 p.m. on the day of the theft.
“You know we have cameras in that town. You can’t get a breath of fresh air in or out of that place without us knowing,” Milliman said to Elser, according to Ring doorbell footage of the Sept. 27 encounter viewed by The Colorado Sun.
“Just as an example, you’ve driven there about 20 times in the last month,” he added.
Along with the Flock footage, the sergeant told Elser he also had a video from the theft victim that allegedly showed Elser ringing the doorbell before grabbing a package and running away.
“I guess this is a shock to you, but I am telling you, this is a lock. One hundred percent. No doubt,” Milliman said.
But Elser, a financial advisor, told the sergeant she had no idea what he was talking about. She asked several times to watch the video that Milliman insisted proved her guilt, but he refused to show her. And when Elser offered up footage from her Rivian’s onboard cameras to prove her innocence, Milliman said she could bring it to court.
“It doesn’t matter. I’ll be giving this all to you. If you are going to deny it to me, I am not going to help you with any courtesy,” Milliman said.
(Excerpt) Read more at coloradosun.com ...
They had pictures of her driving through town 20 times, and claimed to have pictures of her taking packages.
Cop is jealous that he can’t buy a Rivian
And they have pictures of everyone driving through town.
How long are they kept?
“Then on Oct. 15, more than two weeks after Milliman showed up at her door, she got an email from Chief Bret Cottrell, congratulating her on her detective work and announcing that Columbine police had dismissed the charges against her.
“After reviewing the evidence you have provided (nicely done btw), we have voided the summons we issued,” Cottrell wrote to Elser in an email.”
Louis Rossmann has been bringing up this Flock nonsense for awhile now. Basically they don’t need plates anymore. The combined AI will track you from home to destination across ring cams and everything between into a dataset to ID you by your driving style and imperfections on your car.
This seriously needs to be banned just on 4th/5th amendment grounds.
That’s a very stressful ordeal for her to go through.
Even though she and her husband proved her innocence,
I guarantee you, some of her neighbors now reading this continue to have a faint, though lingering suspicion that;
“Maybe she really DID swipe that package, but cobbled up an alibi so good that she got away with it. Not that I’m ever going to bring it up to her for discussion, mind you!”
A restraining order isn’t enough- I would demand a public apology from the officer.
Ha-ha! That’s a good one.
How many ‘meeses’ is that Cat eating every day?
This is called lazy police work. Many big city police departments issue charges without attempting to speak with the suspect because they are dealing with high levels of crime. In an area like this, they should’ve went to this woman and and confront her.
WIKI
Flock’s most popular products, the Falcon and Sparrow, are cameras which monitor traffic and photograph the rear of all passing vehicles. Their software uses artificial intelligence to read the vehicles’ license plates and identify other distinguishing visual characteristics, sending that information to a central server via cellular network. Flock’s servers then log this identifying data, with the time and location of the scan, in a searchable database, and compare all results with the National Crime Information Center, as well as state and local police watchlists of cars that are reported stolen or otherwise of interest to the police, instantly alerting nearby officers upon a match.
ALPRs like Flock’s differ from traffic enforcement cameras in that they are used exclusively for surveillance and criminal investigations, and do not perform any enforcement of traffic laws.
Flock claims that its system’s ability to identify vehicles’ visual features, which it calls “vehicle fingerprint technology”, is unique among ALPR systems; they state that the system can identify vehicles’ make, model, and color, as well as other distinguishing attributes such as mismatching colors, bumper stickers, dents, and temporary license plates, allowing investigators to search for recorded vehicles based on these characteristics. Flock claims that its ALPRs can capture images of vehicles traveling at up to 100 mph, at distances of up to 75 feet, regardless of lighting.
As explained by Flock’s investors, the system is meant to become more useful as adoption grows:
“What magnifies the power of Flock Safety even more is that the digital evidence can be pooled across different law enforcement agencies for a short period of time, making it more powerful as adoption scales within a community and across the U.S. more broadly...The power of Flock Safety is in its network. The more devices deployed, the more evidence there is to solve crimes.”
Most Flock devices are powered by solar panels and rechargeable batteries, allowing them to operate in locations without access to utility power. Many are mounted on manufacturer-supplied poles, while others are affixed to existing lampposts or telephone poles. Flock’s primary competitor in the ALPR market is Motorola Solutions.
Integration with other camera systems
Flock offers software which integrates its ALPR and vehicle identification software into existing video camera systems, including Axon dashcams widely used in police vehicles.
In October 2025, Flock Safety announced a partnership with Amazon’s Ring security products, where residents with ring cameras have the option to share video data to public safety agencies in legal investigations.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flock_Safety
I’m a Muslim transvestive, your honor, these...
Sloppy as hell. And this numbskull was a Sgt. I wonder what his work was like when he was a patrolman.
“…. the sergeant told Elser he also had a video from the theft victim that allegedly showed Elser ringing the doorbell before grabbing a package and running away.”
That’s worth a couple of million right there.
“The city previously ordered Flock to shut down 19 automated license plate readers
“after Illinois Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias discovered that Flock had allowed U.S. Customs and Border Protection to access Illinois cameras in a “pilot program” against state law”
https://evanstonroundtable.com/2025/09/24/flock-safety-reinstalls-evanston-cameras/
Police are legally allowed to lie to you.
That includes lying about you.
“That’s worth a couple of million right there.”
It is my understanding police officers get to lie outside of the judicial system without consequence.
Some police officers do forget the importance of justice to the criminal justice system.
They did and she denied it. They charged her anyway.
“That includes lying about you.”
Trump is a law enforcement person, but he was sued for alleged defamation.
“They charged her anyway.”
I thought charged people had to be brought before a magistrate.
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