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Posted on 07/03/2026 12:50:46 PM PDT by CFW
An innocent driver is stopped by a gun-waving police officer who sics a dog on him and he ends up in jail for hours, or even days.
It’s happening more and more in America, a new study confirms, and it’s all because the technology for machines to read license plate numbers, and report them, fails.
The results are from a study by the Institute for Justice, which confirmed such cases coming up over and over.
The list, large already, is growing:
A Colorado driver was repeatedly pulled over after officers mistakenly put his license plate number on a Flock hotlist. (The cameras were developed by Flock Safety.)
Based on a Flock capture, officers mistook an innocent driver’s car for one that was at the scene of a deadly accident. The driver was jailed for 13 days.
A Flock camera misread a digit on an innocent couple’s vehicle, prompting officers to pull them over and order them out of the car at gunpoint.
Another Colorado driver was repeatedly pulled over after officers mistakenly put her license plate number on a Flock hotlist.
Based on a Flock capture, officers mistook an innocent driver’s car for one that was at the scene of an attempted carjacking. The driver was jailed for nearly one month.
An officer misinterpreted Flock captures to blame an innocent woman for a series of thefts.
Yet another Colorado driver was repeatedly pulled over after officers mistakenly put her license plate number on a Flock hotlist.
After data in the Flock system incorrectly linked a suspect’s vehicle to his innocent father, officers detained the wrong man.
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But I agree they should not be allowed.
This is edging way to close to a 24/7 surveillance state for comfort.
Just wait till they use AI to monitor people. It will be a thousand times worse.
You put me in jail for 13 days on an error, I will own that department and EVERYONE involved. Their asses will be in court until I’m satisfied!
One would think lawsuits would make then uneconomical from the get go.
I have a Flock camera on the street about 200 yards from my driveway. I drive to avoid it. It usually causes me to take the long way to where I am going.
Because "qualified immunity" will be claimed.
You have to often go all the way to the SCOTUS just to have the right to sue in the first place.
The system is rigged so that the government is always right even when the government is very wrong.
Yup, they are indemnified from being stupid and making “mistakes”. They will also be indemnified when they accidentally kill you.
Wonderful isn’t it?
For those cases where the plate is “misread” what does it take for someone to go actually read the plate? 13 days? Idiots.
This article does not list failures of the flock system. It lists failures of lazy, incompetent, or corrupt agents of the state who should be impoverished and imprisoned for their behavior.
This is why you still have a long range gun with a scope that is properly sighted in? You do have one don’t you?
Flocck Safety, what a racket. We have been down a path like this before haven’t we, with the speed cameras? Back for round two.
An entry on American Thinker's blog today mirror's that statement: The most dangerous surveillance company you've never heard of (Axon Enterprise).
Innocent guy walking down the sidewalk when a couple of guys come up to him, demand to know who he is and snatch his wallet. This was followed by a beating that had people calling 911 to report a mugging.
Qualified Immunity.
There is no doubt in this case that the guy was innocent or what happen as it was recorded by any number of people.
But he does not even get to sue them.
I hardly need to be convinced how bad it is. Cops have become more like a goon squad. They treat everyone as a hardened criminal. I guess that is what hardened criminals do to them and we all suffer.
I stopped down by the creek one day to thank one of our county mounties for trying to do something about speeders on our little state highway. I’lll never approach one of them again for any purpose. Simply not worth the risk.
my pickup license plate was repeatedly misread by colorado’s toll road cameras ... i didn’t realize that until i got a bill for some OTHER car ... i called their operations center and they entered my plate in their database, indicating it was being misread and waved the charges ...
“This article does not list failures of the flock system. It lists failures of lazy, incompetent, or corrupt agents of the state who should be impoverished and imprisoned for their behavior.”
I call that a failure of the “system”.
Flock is owned by a guy outside the US. There really is no way to appeal the data collected unlike some more local plate readers that are reviewed by local authorities. Often at the local level there is no action taken until a determination is made. Not so with Flock. Flock does the whole thing and sends a cut to the police.
A 7% misread rate is 1.4 billion miss per month. It doesn’t take a lot of imagination to see the nightmare this is becoming.
While I don’t live in Louisville I do go there regularly. And the state attorney general has confirmed that Louisville police have the prerogative of not revealing the location of any of their cameras. The problem is that they are now so pervasive knowing where they are doesn’t really help you in any practical manner unless you’re gonna do something vigilante like and start taking the damn things out.
The plate readers for toll roads are another nightmare for drivers. For evidence just ask the poor souls who have to cross the bridge from Louisville to Indiana.
There’s a Flock camera at the entrance to my subdivision right now to acquire a profile of vehicles that normally go in and out. I’m all for it and hope they leave it up permanently. It’s a tool and like all tools, can be dangerous if not used properly.
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