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Right now Flock Safety is a pariah in the US like AIPAC. Outing these transactions would benefit both rival campaigns and corruption-watch nonprofits.

Mass surveillance should be regarded as a crime agains the public, and a violation of protections by the fourth amendment to the Constitution of the United States.

Maybe such politicians should be pushed to publicly endorse making ALPR network database hits inadmissable in court. Get a public no.

Already we're seeing police precincts warning officers to not admit they searched ALPR databases but to make another excuse. We're already seeing the same shift to parallel reconstruction that we did with IMSI spoofer usage.

In a better world, ALPR database searches should only be allowed with a narrowly-constrained judicial warrant.

But IRL, law enforcement nationwide is notorious for abusing forensic tools to secure probable cause or even false convictions. So they shouldn't be trusted with ALPRs at all.

They weren't already doing that?

Flock should be designated a terrorist organization.

Who could have seen ~~political donations~~ bribery coming?

It's trickle down economics, where corruption starts at the top and find its way down to every layer of society. Prepare to give larger and larger "tips" to get anything done.

Local politicians being bought off for a couple thousand dollars. Fucking shameful. That's not even a "oh you had to really persuade them" like a new car or something. It's a good chunk of change but a thousand bucks will maybe get you a weekend vacation in Tuscon. But it was enough to sell our privacy down the well.

They're only starting now?

Bribes. Just call them bribes.

"starts"

Usually when researching my ballot I have a hard time getting enough info on the local politicians to feel like I'm making an informed decision. My sincere thanks to Flock for making it so much easier to identify who not to vote for.

Taxpayers pay for Flock cameras to be put up because our gov agencies are terrible. Flock then takes a portion of this money to bribe the gov to give them more money.

Sounds legit and totally normal. This is how the entire military industrial complex works. Nothing to see here.

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Well that's not exactly helping their evil government surveillance company look at all. Sounds like they're just leaning into it.

Track those taking the payoffs. We don't need them representing themselves, we need them to represent their constituents. Once you know who they are, vote them out. Eventually those seeking to enter politics will have a more universally collective mindset rather then the "what's in it for me" that is the current norm.