Flock Cameras Won’t Save Us

My thoughts on Flock Safety cameras:

1. I live in a rural area in Alabama where we don’t have Flock cameras.

2. My experience with Flock cameras and other similar types of devices that read license plates is reducible to the four or five automated traffic tickets that I received in the mail over the past few years when traveling in nearby cities like Montgomery, Auburn, Dothan and Columbus, GA.

3. There are over 5,000 Flock cameras in Atlanta and 1,500 in Birmingham. There are over 28,000 Flock Safety and Ring cameras and other types of surveillance cameras in Atlanta where Flock Safety is based. Flock cameras haven’t meaningfully increased the crime clearance rate in Atlanta.

4. Times Square in New York City has always been lit up with surveillance cameras. These cameras didn’t stop that Bank of America executive from getting slaughtered there in broad daylight by a mentally ill Hispanic woman. The viral videos of Daniel Penny on the New York City subway, Iryna Zarutska’s murder in Charlotte and Ryan Carson’s murder in Brooklyn didn’t change anything.

5. Is it safe to ride MARTA trains in Atlanta? Do you want your community to be as safe as Fulton County, GA? If Flock cameras and Ring cameras create safer communities, then Atlanta would be the poster child of why we need the AI surveillance state. I’m unconvinced.

6. In my experience, surveillance cameras which have long been ubiquitous in public schools and on public transit and buses just give us a window to look upon social dysfunction. I’ve seen thousands of viral videos of black-on-White assaults in public schools and on school buses.

7. Finally, we need Flock cameras and AI data centers to create parody video mix ups of these gruesome murders because nothing ever changes. There are more of these disturbed people on the streets.

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