Flock license plate reader wrongly linked a San Diego man to a violent crime
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Flock license plate reader wrongly linked a San Diego man to a violent crime
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Re: Flock license plate reader wrongly linked a San Diego man to a violent crime
#2I'm no fan of flock, but I dislike how these articles are blaming the technology when the real issue is the police not bothering to check the information they're given
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#3I'm no fan of flock, but I dislike how these articles are blaming the technology when the real issue is the police not bothering to check the information they're given
Yeah this reads like the cops simply didn't properly identify the vehicle. If anything, the Flock camera photo proves he was miles away.
Re: Flock license plate reader wrongly linked a San Diego man to a violent crime
#4ACLU needs to take his case and sue everything in sight.
Why would they not have a human look at the hit? Flock, San Diego and the SDPD are all liable.
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#6This doesn't seem like a Flock story so much as SDPD making an arrest purely on a nexus to "red Alfa Romeo with tinted windows". From what I understand of the story, the Flock camera did in fact tag a red Alfa Romeo (there's a still frame in the article). It wasn't the right one, but ALPR cameras aren't psychic; they tell you features, make/model, and plate, not "criminal culpability".
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#7> Their tort claim notes that the path the men took to the cigar lounge passed by several other Flock cameras, which could have corroborated their story, as well as the location data on their cell phones.
It seems like if the police actually looked at the Flock data it would have exonerated them?
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#8Ironically flock is what proves innocence. What would happen here without it?
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> Meanwhile, on the other side of town, five miles away in Old Town, just 23 seconds after San Police Officers in Golden Hill tried stopping the suspected carjacker, a Flock Automated License Plate Reader captured a photo of a red Alfa Romeo driving on the 2200 block of Moore Street.
5 miles in 23 seconds is 782 mph.