alt Hacker News> Hundreds of people have been tracked down and killed with flock cameras unnecessarily.
This is not a real datapoint. We quite a few cases of wrongful stops or arrests, but there is only one case where it escalated to physical damage (Brandon Upchurch).
Only about 10% of officer involved shootings come from traffic stops, which is what we're talking about when we're talking about Flock license plate readers.
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wahnfrieden • yesterday at 10:31 PM
Flock cameras are deployed in locations that cannot monitor traffic, too.
Your numbers aren’t far off - it was about 1200 police killings last year, 112 during traffic stops.
That is shockingly bad. Where police officers can be identified, about 10% have shot someone before.
https://policeviolencereport.org/