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1. nomilk · 1790396076 · focus · HN ↗

   Had the 'evidence' been a random dashcam rather than Flock cam, this wouldn't even be a story beyond severe police incompetence.

   Flock didn't fail to inspect the car for damage and not find any, flock didn't take 13 days to conduct a cursory review of evidence, flock didn't fail to request cell tower triangulation data and rule out her being in the location of the accident...

   I get that people feel their privacy's invaded by being filmed, but this story doesn't appear to have any more to do with Flock than what the officers had for breakfast or the brand of air freshener she had in her car at the time.

   1. wredcoll · 1790397703 · focus · HN ↗

      Except of course the entire reason the police picked her in specific is because of information flock gave them.

      Could they have, you know, double checked it? Yes, obviously. But they didn't.

      I agree that this story is more about the incredible incompetence of the police involved than flock attempting to record everyone and everything, but flock giving the police an excuse to stop looking and arrest an innocent is by no means irrelevant.

      1. [deleted] · 1790398290 · focus · HN ↗

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