In 2023 and 2024, Flock sent 1,427 alerts to the Roseville [CA] Police Department.
Roseville police found that Flock misread license plates in 71% of those alerts.
Max Isaacs, director of technology law and policy with the Policing Project at New York University’s School of Law, described Roseville’s misread data as “stunning.”
“A 71% misread rate is really beyond the pale,” he told Business Insider, referring to Roseville’s reported error rate for stolen and felony vehicle alerts. He added that “in the absence of concrete rules that directly address the problem of misreads, this technology is not safe to be deployed in communities.”
On one hand that’s a good thing.
But on the other its not, as it can cause someone else with a similar plate number to be accused of a crime or infraction, etc that another committed.
Dozens of times so far. And the perpetrators point at each other, or simply refuse to acknowledge wrongdoing.
Yep, I knew it was happening. Wasn’t aware this frequently already. Of course they point the finger at each other and refuse any wrongdoing, their lives aren’t the ones at stake when shit like that happens. And guarantee the ones falsely accused still face the penalties.
Yup, just read an article about that the other day. They even acknowledged it was going to keep happening to the person whose vehicle was mistakenly flagged because of a partial ID match, and just advised him to keep the car at home until they figured out how to fix it. In his case it wasn’t as big a deal since it was a rental, but can you imagine being told to not drive your own fucking car or the cops will be automatically called to come pull you over as a carjacker??
Wow, that is absolutely insane. I hate this current timeline so much.
No. Its like drug dogs. Its just an excuse to do whatever they want. Infinite monkeys writing up probable cause forms.