Comment by scottlamb
9 hours ago
> Paraphrasing the crux of the issue: "It's regular practice in Colorado to list license plates with both versions, the one with 'O's and the other with Zeros in the warrant list." Insane. Practice.
Agree.
> As always, this story has have nothing to do with the cameras or AI, but "law enforcement has an insane lazy practice" doesn't make for a very good headline anymore.
Flock allows them to execute their intent at scale. That's a regression, unless it leads to the realization their intent is harmful and stupid.
(Lots of other reasons Flock is bad too.)
The inability of governments to perfectly enforce laws and regulations shields us from their incompetence and corruption to some extent.
And they think AI will allow them to approach that perfection, when in reality it's worse than actual police investigation