• d-RLY?@lemmy.ml
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    11 hours ago

    If it does get far enough to be introduced and to actual vote. I am guessing there will be a massive push by Flock to flood news outlets and lobbyists to how “successfully bad guys were caught” or otherwise “prevented.” Probably lock-in on any instance(s) involving children being protected/found. With any and all misleading stats downplaying the actual levels of spying on literally everyone not doing anything illegal (or that children are being scanned and added to those growing databases). And the fucked up cases of false positives that drag those people into court, job losses from being accused/arrested, and financial losses from the first two.

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    15 hours ago

    Aren’t most of them funded by local governments anyway?

    (And then when the city councils or residents vote to stop it, the cops leave them up anyway?)

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      12 hours ago

      My local government had funds offered by a federal grant they didn’t apply for. A neighboring county had applied for the federal grant, received a ton of money, and was dishing it out to police across the region.

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        12 hours ago

        Between this and local police working with ICE, it feels like a federal government takeover of everything. The sheriff of a neighboring county has his salary paid by ICE/DHS, and that isn’t right. Federalized police departments.

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      14 hours ago

      federal bill to withhold federal money from municipalities and police departments that deploy Flock-style automated license plate reader cameras

      This is so such local governments have other funding withdrawn until they get rid of the cameras, presumably