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Robin Gilmartin's avatar

Such an important and timely post! For anyone interested, we built a website for our ALPR campaign http://www.flockoff.io

And lawn signs:

Robin Gilmartin's avatar

Also dropping my post this week on the topic

https://rgilmartin.substack.com/p/our-streets

Jeff Purdon's avatar

Excellent!!

Jan Kubiac's avatar

Is this technology something we could use to catch speeders and tailgaters. Could wayward drivers get a ticket in the mail? We need the money to combat the climate crisis. Speedsters are creating more of an emissions crisis because that's the nature of aerodynamics. Cars become highly inefficient at fifty mph and above. Insurance companies can benefit with the surcharge for speeding for three years! Making America White through Flock stinks! It's unAmerican. Defies the UN and basic civility to other human beings. It's small and so harmful to people who are already threatened and hurt by their homelands. Where supposed to be the people who honor the Statue of Liberty and all she stands for.🕊️💚

Ani Sweitzer's avatar

Yes, but these same cities are replacing them with contracts with Axon, a company that is benefiting the Trump Crime Family directly. They apparently bought shares of this company, and right-wing social media influencers have been paid to talk smack about Flock cameras. I wish all of this type of surveillance goes away because they are all treating us like criminals for "future crimes" and monitoring us before we even commit a crime. Policing pre-crime is a 1984 kind of thing, and should not be happening IRL.

Jay Kubesch's avatar

Amazon sells an extension arm for aerosol cans. Spray adhesive would be diabolical.#EachOneTeachOne

Daniel Allen's avatar

I actually celebrated when the intersection near my home got an automated license plate reader (not Flock, another brand). I live in a progressive city in a progressive state, where the police don't do much traffic enforcement. This makes me feel better about letting my kids play outside and cross the street.

Curt Jopling's avatar

I could live with them short term if our city would use them to see how ridiculous the street lights configurations are.

Jan Kubiac's avatar

is there a way that a camera could be used to identify drivers who are speeding and just send them a ticket in the mail?

Sandra Shebongsalot's avatar

That's what cops are for. Don't need cameras for that.

Daniel Allen's avatar

Unless your town defunded the police... Cops in my New England city aren't allowed to pursue speeders anymore. There are tradeoffs.