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    AI license plate cameras tore this town apart and led to a state of emergency

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    1. Steap-Edit on

      “AI license plate cameras” … okay, that doesn’t sound like a reliable use of AI with a healthy low false positive rate

      **Correction**: Automated License Plate Readers (ALPRs) have been in use for several decades. The actual issue here is privacy concerns, not accuracy.

    3. Jesufication on

      It’s coming to 911 call centers with AI triggered drone responses, it’s already used for writing police reports, for translation, for identifying people and objects in surveillance footage…

    5. johnjohn4011 on

      It’s always unimaginably cruel at first, when techno fascism is being brutally forced upon society.

      It’s unimaginably cruel later too, but also at first.

    7. imaginary_num6er on

      >Mayor Carmella Mantello, flanked by officers in blue, accused the city council of “defunding” the police and declared a state of emergency to keep the cameras running, a designation usually reserved for floods and blizzards.

      Sounds like the city is now under an autocracy

    8. Eric848448 on

      Just a friendly reminder that you don’t need AI to read license plates from an image with a computer. The technology has been around for a very long time.

    9. Rok-SFG on

      Y’all need to be like montana an make red light / speed trap / etc cameras illegal.

    10. dlampach on

      “I will not put this city in jeopardy..” and take away these cameras we have had for last two years. For time immemorial before these cameras were installed we lived in fear and we will not go back. /s

    13. ToolTimeT on

      So typical of a republican… I don’t care what the citizens want, I am doing this for your “security”.

    14. ToolTimeT on

      Flock Safety camera errors and misread license plates have led to police detaining, wrongly citing, and arresting innocent individuals.

      The automated license plate readers (ALPR) can misread characters on a plate, matching innocent drivers with vehicles involved in crimes or felony warrants. When officers fail to verify the camera’s read against the physical vehicle or the driver’s details, it can result in wrongful stops, jail time, and even police dog attacks.

      Notable incidents highlighting these system flaws include:

      * **Wrongful Detention in Washington:** A father in Redmond was handcuffed in his driveway after a Flock camera misread his license plate and incorrectly linked his vehicle to his son’s felony warrant.
      * **Incorrect Suspect in Colorado:** A woman in Columbine Valley, CO, was accused of porch theft and issued a summons after police relied solely on Flock camera data that incorrectly flagged her car. She had to provide her own Google Maps and dashcam evidence to prove her innocence and get the charges dropped.
      * **Systemic Misreads:** Reviews of police records and lawsuits by outlets like *Business Insider* have identified over a dozen instances where automated misreads or a lack of human verification resulted in the wrong individuals being targeted by law enforcement. [[1](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlHL7bhMb1M), [2](https://www.cbsnews.com/colorado/news/flock-cameras-lead-colorado-police-wrong-suspect/), [3](https://myfox8.com/news/police-use-flock-cameras-to-wrongfully-accuse-woman-of-theft/), [4](https://www.foxnews.com/tech/how-surveillance-tech-led-police-accuse-wrong-person), [5](https://www.businessinsider.com/flock-safety-alpr-cameras-misreads-2026-3)]

    15. ToolTimeT on

      “Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.”