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How Rogue Officers Turned a Nationwide Camera Network Into a Tool for Stalking

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1304793/how-rogue-officers-turned-a-nationwide-camera-network-into-a-tool-for-stalking

Flock’s array of license-plate cameras was built to fight crime. But at least 50 law enforcement officers were charged with or accused of misusing it and other systems.

www.rsn.org/001/how-rogue-officers-turned-a-nationwide-camera-network-into-a-tool-for-stalking.html
www.rsn.orgHow Rogue Officers Turned a Nationwide Camera Network Into a Tool for Stalking<blockquote><br /><strong><em>Flock’s array of license-plate cameras was built to fight crime. But at least 50 law enforcement officers were charged with or accused of mi...
quill7513@quill7513@anarchist.nexus

Replying to an earlier post

there’s a long history of cops making petty abuses of the power over others they’re granted, and of those additional powers not making their communities any safer. to me this headline reads as “most predictable thing imaginable has come to pass”

here’s my advice:

  1. dismantle the surveillance state
  2. abolish the institution of prison
  3. abolish the police
en