Never Mind, It’s Just A System Glitch

Asshole Cops, Surveillance Society

…or, Flock Off, Part 2:

A Wisconsin woman was pulled over at gunpoint twice in one week after Milwaukee Police Department staff failed to remove a vehicle alert from the Flock license plate camera system.

Fox 6 Milwaukee reports that on Thursday, police in the Milwaukee suburb of Brookfield, Wisconsin, conducted a high-risk traffic stop on Interstate 94 after a Flock camera flagged a vehicle in connection with a Milwaukee homicide investigation. Video footage from the incident shows multiple officers with weapons drawn and a passenger extending their hands out the car window in compliance with police commands.

The vehicle’s driver, Amber Newell, and her passengers were detained during the stop. However, when Brookfield Police contacted the Milwaukee Police Department to coordinate the arrest, MPD informed them they no longer needed the vehicle or its occupants. The officers immediately released Newell and the other individuals.

And if anyone in this party of “desperadoes” had been accidentally shot, it would have resulted in an “Oops, my bad” response from the cops, no doubt.

Remember:  “If you’ve done nothing wrong, there’s nothing to worry about.”

Uh huh.

Grex delenda est.

7 comments

  1. The part of these fusterclucks that irritates me most is, when something goes sideways you get an unctuous twerp standing before the cameras assuring us that ‘all the correct procedures were followed”. I want, just ONCE, to hear that followed with “So, we’re firing the nitwit who wrote the procedures for ostentatious stupidity, and every suit that sign off on them for laziness”.

      1. They will make sure this doesn’t happen to the elite class.

        The rest of us are just disposable to the cock suckers who oversee these systems.

        # Fuck big brother

  2. Given that I’ve received maybe 20 or so tickets from toll roads and automated traffic cameras for roads I’ve never been on, sometimes in states I’ve never visited, yeah – the system sucks. And it ain’t just gonna magically get better. Someone’s gonna die just like the rash of swatting incidents from a few years back.

  3. “It’s not a glitch it’s a feature”

    This phrase / saying is so true in relation to flock.

    I bet most if not all of us have been “flocked” in some way shape or form at this point

    The govt could and likely will or already has used this to Harass people.

    # Maybe the Amish have it right?

    # FUCK big brother

    # FUCK AI

  4. Tech has simply added another layer to the universal constant of bureaucratic/institutional incompetence & apathy.

    Many moons ago my car was stolen and recovered about a month later. The cops didn’t take it off their hot sheet, and I was treated to a full felony stop:

    DRIVER! THROW YOUR KEYS OUT THE WINDOW! DRIVER! STEP OUT OF THE VEHICLE WITH YOUR HANDS UP! DRIVER! WALK BACKWARDS TOWARD THE SOUND OF MY VOICE! DRIVER! GET ON YOUR KNEES! FACE DOWN ON THE PAVEMENT, NOW!

    Good times.

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