Comment by MentalM

> The point is that if the flock surveillance data hadn't existed in the first place, we wouldn't be in this situation.

Yeah. After all, the police are known for never arresting people based solely on very tenuous and easily disproved evidence. This damn flock surveillance data!

> Everybody knows police will abuse this kind of surveillance technology

Only here that is literally not the case. There was a real crime and the surveillance technology provided the relevant evidence.