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Automated License Plate Readers (ALPRs) are AI-powered cameras that capture and analyze images of all passing vehicles, storing details like your car’s location, date, and time. They also capture your car’s make, model, color, and identifying features such as dents, roof racks, and bumper stickers, often turning these into searchable data points. These cameras collect data on millions of vehicles—regardless of whether the driver is suspected of a crime. While these systems can be useful for tracking stolen cars or wanted individuals, they are mostly used to track the movements of innocent people.

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Man arrested with truck full of Flock cameras in Albuquerque (www.kob.com)

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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Bernalillo County Sheriff’s deputies took a man into custody Wednesday after he showed up outside their headquarters with multiple Flock cameras in the back of his pickup truck.

Authorities arrested Jevon Martinez for damaging Flock cameras in Rio Rancho in May. Then, Wednesday, he posted video on social media appearing to show him driving around Albuquerque and taking down automated license plate readers once again.

In those videos, he comments that since the Bernalillo County Sheriff’s Office ended its contract with Flock last month, those cameras should no longer be out on the streets.

"Just for the record, I am not stealing these. I am not destroying them. I am simply returning them to the Bernalillo County Sheriff’s Department,” he said in one video.

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[–] LilB0kChoy@reddthat.com 11 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Do you think the current situation is what they wanted?

I agree with you about division but the answer to this question is yes. Unfortunately there is a not insignificant number of Americans who would be completely happy with the current situation if it was only affecting the “others” they were told it would.

It’s important to understand there is a difference between those people who are upset because of what’s happening, full stop, and those people who are upset because it’s happening to them.

[–] saltesc@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Yep. I think the point is, all hands should be shaking and starting action, not pointing fingers. The time for that is long gone and it's something the wolves are really depending on people to keep doing. It's a passive, non-threatening, waste of energy. It just It's divide and conquer 101.

Those participating in it are fuel to their own fire. They are not helping themselves or their fellow Americans in anyway. Accountability can come later if it really is needed, but there's bigger problems than a random Joe Smith that "voted for this" and socially ridiculing them is the perfect shot in one's own foot. Gotta be really gullable to fall for that.

[–] artyom@piefed.social 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Never will I ever shake hands with people who think it's okay to let pregnant women die, shove "others" into concentration camps, weaponize the government against dissidents and political opponents in bad faith, and rig elections, or be complicit in the rigging of elections, among other issues. Sorry not sorry.

[–] saltesc@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Enjoy, then.

[–] mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

yup, many are accelerationists' promoting a new civil war. and the rest are simply racist fucks who thought trump would be racist, but not drive the bus off the cliff.

fuck both of those crowds.