I’m trying to keep up with what’s happening in the US and it’s kinda crazy to me that there are so many. We have security cameras in Sweden too but you really can’t just put them up anywhere.
This map shows there are 8 right at the corner of my apartment… But there aren’t? Unless it’s also tracking the cameras on the traffic lights that have been there for years before Flock even existed. 🤨
I always thought those were just part of the traffic light’s sensor system to control the flow of traffic, not ALPR cameras. Crazy.
Click on it and click view OSM. It’ll give you substantially more data about the device. Most likely those are flock cameras now and you didn’t notice when they were changed. Could just be a false positive as anyone can submit them for review. Though I think that is getting more and more rare.
If you’re in the U.S., I’d be surprised if you don’t have any. There’s a little “town” near me with literally only a Post Office. It has at least two already.
The town of 10,000 people I live in had 8 of them and there’s a town of 500 people my wife grew up in that has one. Heck the rural county I live in had one of those ex-military armored vehicles which the sheriffs looked half-tempted to try to hook up at the tractor pull when they were showing it off.
Never underestimate the questionable spends of police departments with little oversight on new toys that are of dubious ethics, efficacy and legality
I’m not exactly serious here; I don’t even think there are Flock cameras in my city. Tho now I am wondering how I might find out for sure.
Deflock?
Apparently there’s a map.
I’m trying to keep up with what’s happening in the US and it’s kinda crazy to me that there are so many. We have security cameras in Sweden too but you really can’t just put them up anywhere.
This map shows there are 8 right at the corner of my apartment… But there aren’t? Unless it’s also tracking the cameras on the traffic lights that have been there for years before Flock even existed. 🤨
I always thought those were just part of the traffic light’s sensor system to control the flow of traffic, not ALPR cameras. Crazy.
If you can find out for sure what they are, you can submit corrections to the map. It’s crowd-sourced data.
Click on it and click view OSM. It’ll give you substantially more data about the device. Most likely those are flock cameras now and you didn’t notice when they were changed. Could just be a false positive as anyone can submit them for review. Though I think that is getting more and more rare.
If you’re in the U.S., I’d be surprised if you don’t have any. There’s a little “town” near me with literally only a Post Office. It has at least two already.
The town of 10,000 people I live in had 8 of them and there’s a town of 500 people my wife grew up in that has one. Heck the rural county I live in had one of those ex-military armored vehicles which the sheriffs looked half-tempted to try to hook up at the tractor pull when they were showing it off.
Never underestimate the questionable spends of police departments with little oversight on new toys that are of dubious ethics, efficacy and legality