Flock Cameras Wrongly Tracked Me for Days over 'Stolen' Plates

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• Hacker News
• What happens when it’s Judge Dredd AI robot here to sentence you based on automated systems and AI?

  To the outer colonies for this one.

  by wil421
• not justifying it but I imagine even pre-Flock there were false positives, I guess a question would be if the false positives are multiplying or if they would be better than the previous system of false positives
  by erelong
• Sounds like the actual issue is that the false positive rate is so low that cops get complacent. If in the past all you had were vague descriptions like "grey F150" then police would be far more skeptical if they saw a "match". However if they're using ANPRs and it's reliable day after day, you stop questioning the system. After all, it never makes a mistake, right?
  by gruez
• Massive violation of rights. Flock should be shut down and their c-suite sent to prison. The cops that made this massive series of blunders should also be fired and blackballed nation-wide.
  by LocalH
• The cops in this article didn't do a single thing wrong.

  Their department did, maybe. Or the city/state. But reading the article, someone entered the plate wrong 1000s of miles away, and secondarily flock reads some plates wrongly.

  However, the individual police were told "use this tool" and the tool said "spotted stolen car". They then showed up, and did their job.

  I would blame the city or department head who signed with flock. I would blame flock. I wouldn't blame the individual officers which were just doing their job.

  by b112