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I'm being surveiled for 10 years straight... for exhale, every time i go to a new place (leave my geo fence) they sick the cops on me to see what I'm doing in the new place.....p.s. did you know, police use the TPMS system to track cars?
1984 police state. All roads paved with good intentions still lead to hell. Any gov organization stating that they are doing something for your" safety" is lying and only seeks to have more power and control over you and it ALWAYS is mishandled where there is frequent abuse.
We're being biologically surveilled in our own homes right now folks. Better get ahead of this unless you're just here to make people believe there's some fighting back.
This is why the founders wrote a forgotten document called the Deck luh rashun uv En duh pen dance. It tells about what we are to do when government no longer serves our needs.
They're nice if you got your car stolen, tracking down a shooter, tracking down an amber alert vehicle, and finding a hit & run driver...but there is no oversight on these. I have seen personal use cases already, they are being abused. Flock does have transparency report portals which are optional for departments to publish, it shows reasons listed in each query. Suspicion is one of the widely used phrases in the justification note section, sometimes they just put "pd" in the box. Departmental policy can not keep this program checked & balanced. They say the FBI does not have direct access, but they do.
Please, everyone make sure to support them monetarily. Most banks today will do automatic payments, and so I have a small check going out to them every month, and don't even have to think about it.
i was skeptical at first but they've slowly been building my respect. They've done a great deal of great work I hope to see they maintain their integrity.
I think it was in Belgium prior to World War II that people had to register their religion with the government. Of course, there were objections. But, the government said that nothing would happen. Then Germany invaded Blegium and accessed those paper records and found out where all the Jews were living and rounded them up more easily. And THIS is the problem with having records of private people's information.
IBM already had the census data ready for the Nazis. The participation of IBM in the Holocaust was kept secret until the 1990s. The number on the wrist of German prisoners was their IBM punchcard number.
All it takes is one bad actor. I don’t care if their intentions are good ( to be clear, I don’t believe they are, being in the vicinity of some random crime could ruin your life with this) all it takes is one person who is acting in bad faith. One person with power can ruin so many lives.
Yesterday, the city of Cincinnati announced a new, voluntary, program for civilians and businesses to link their private security cameras to the police department. They claim that cops won't be able to just login and watch your camera feed, but you know they will.
You can bet they will if you commit a crime. They will likely say, because you agreed, signed up and gave them permission, they don't need a warrant. You would have to be insane to give the police access to any camera or recording device. Remember when they used to hood wink parents in to getting their kids finger printed at the police department "in case of kid napping" Yeah, do you think they don't use that information in every crime? Your kid never agreed to have their finger prints databased but, there they are for the rest of their lives.
Tried this in Utah as well... I think it was in conjunction with RING though, not that RING can't already share your camera footage with anyone who will pay money for it....
Basically we are the frog in boiling water. They are slowly turning up the heat by taking and breaking each constitutional right. People keep writing things off under the pretense of crime being the worst it’s been (not true) and “if you didn’t do anything then there’s nothing to worry about “ (like innocence stands in the way of a conviction or forced plea). It’s basically “back the blue til it happens to you!” In a nutshell.
This 100% is an invasion of privacy. Why does anyone need to know where everyone is? The vast, vast majority of citizens are law abiding, what gives the police the belief they can violate everyone's constitutional rights by an unlawful search?
This WILL result in police shortcutting their investigations to "the system told us you deviated from your routine today, can you prove your whereabouts?"
@@frotobaggins7169 Hopefully that changes or we may have to figure out how to secure a future for us and the younger generation with some sort of reforms and overhaul the bureaucracy. Everyone should consider guilty until proven innocent to be a problem because of the court systems eagerness to pick with completely innocent men and women. Guilty until proven beyond a reasonable doubt is the only absolution.
Already happened in town of Suffolk, VA. Someone got shot at during a road rage incident. They called the police and they did an “investigation”. Police said they did have enough evidence but, as the driver stated, there were Flock cameras on the road they were driving on. They closed their investigation later that day.
Many LEO's are terrified of citizens recording them in public, but at the same time sing the praises of unconstitutionally surveilling those very same citizens!
The scariest part is police are gonna start coming to your door to talk to you when you take a different street home than your normal route. Gotta make sure your not doing anything suspicious
we only have ring doorbell cameras at the houses around where i live i walk the streets here with a sword (entirely legal, no permit or anything needed), dont behave menacingly or anything bad i saw someone in his car looking terrified, i could hear his call bc it was on speaker, it was super loud, this was several blocks from my house, he did not follow me at all soon after, the cops showed up at my door, they knew exactly which house i entered at the end of my walk
It's easy for officials to justify this kind of garbage in the name of public safety but the reality is that you're surrendering your liberty for nothing. Thanks for taking this case, IJ!
That's exactly what Mayor Karen Bass of Los Angeles said while she was with Trump. We have to keep people safe - so she won't let the homeowners go back to their properties. Trump called her out on that B.S.
@@skippylippy547 only because it happened to make him look better in the moment. You really think he wouldn’t be on board with this crap? He has already shown allegiance to tyrant cops and politicians. He openly talks about it. Mass surveillance is right up his alley. He may dance around it or deny it when asked directly but his actions and other words in the past clearly shows he is on the side of authoritarianism, fascism, and tyranny. It’s like the meaning of these words, especially tyranny, have been lost. It’s not just what you don’t like, it’s a set of governmental behaviors and polices. If a cop can pull up to a car they suspect is stolen and beat the crap out of the janitor because he had keys in his hands and didn’t want to talk to them anymore (the keys were for the company and looked nothing like a car fob. They were old fashioned keys, yet they claim they thought the huge ring of dozens of keys were for the car in question) and get away with it, their department saying they didn’t violate policy (means nothing. Their policy doesn’t reflect the law or morality) then we are already well into these things we use those words to describe. And when the sitting president supports the people who perpetuate it? It’s not good. I’ll tell you that. He’s evil, the dems are useless and we have lost this country already. We aren’t going to get it back by sucking up to the politicians that got us here (and yes, Trump is included) or the wealthy that are guiding the government in this direction. There is a class where the law protects but doesn’t bind, and a class where the law binds and doesn’t protect. All that’s happening now is what has always happened, it’s just the group that is protected is getting smaller and the group that is bound is getting larger so people who used to be in the former group find themselves in the latter these days. They act so surprised but it’s always been like this, it’s just happened to people you didn’t care about.
These cameras are nationwide...In practically every city! I just found out my city has 9 of them, Population around 30K people...And I'm betting they are abused and used for nefarious intentions by all law enforcement...That power is just too tempting for them to resist!
I work in Wichita, a few months ago a driver hit my car at a busy city intersection and ran off. I called the WPD to the scene (showed up after a half hour) who assured me that unfortunately they could do nothing to track the car, in fact when I called 911 I provided the direction of travel of the runaway car but instead they bogged me down on the phone to get my details first. This was late at night and very little traffic, it was a hit and run. Now I learn that there are cameras and at the very least at the traffic lights! Now I’m upset, I had to pay a deductible of 750 $!! No effort was made to find the perpetrator!
A few years ago my cousin was parked on the street by her apartment. Overnight an SUV rammed into her parked car and drove away. The entire thing was caught on a surveillance camera of the office next door and someone down the street got the plate. When called out, Chicago police said it "wasn't their job" to catch this person and told her to give the info to her insurance.
I've seen them everywhere here in southeast, GA. People, the cameras only look 1 direction. It surprises me why mysterious damage isn't constantly occurring to these illegal government devices. I think it should start.
You have to have a warrant signed by a judge in order to put a tracker on a car but they can do this and get around it. I don't see how that doesn't fly in the face of previous rulings. Ridiculous!
Our rural POA tried to go behind the resident's backs and put these in. Luckily we found out and put a stop to it. Now I'm running for the board to ensure this sort of nonsense doesn't happen again.
@@deadave100 we're already paying for them: The installs, maintenance/upkeep, the network that makes the footage available, etc. ... What I'm referring to is getting our moneys' worth for this thing we in no way, shape, or form asked for... 🤣😂🤷♂️
Here in Memphis, TN these exact cameras are EVERYWHERE‼️On streets, shopping center parking lots, AND in most other parking lots around the city. So many in fact that even a short trip in the city, you’ll pass by quite a few. These license plate readers are also mounted on the emergency blue light bar atop a number of the police cars! You might say, big brother is watching like never before!
This is an absolute huge issue. I used to have one of these cameras at an apartment complex that I owned, and the company would encourage me to share the information with the police department. The purpose of this was to keep my tenants, safe and secure, and if something occurred on the property, I could then report it, but taking that extra step of allowing the police department to access it whenever they wanted seemed a bridge too far and I eventually got rid of the system. And it's worse than this because these systems are intertwining with license plate readers on police cruisers and other city vehicles to the point where you can track where cars are going across state lines. There are multiple cases in Arkansas available on RUclips where they pulled a vehicle over and got a major drug bust… During the interrogation of the driver, the driver will say something to the effect of "I'm coming from Oklahoma" and the officer will say "well your vehicle was observed in New Mexico yesterday and you've driven down this road back-and-forth multiple times in the last month"… It really is not OK. privacy laws need to be made much stronger, this information needs to be dumped every x amount of days, and courts need to be involved in even accessing the system because without that, of course they're going to start tracking their wives and girlfriends… Their political opponents… Or the cute girl driving the Mustang that they just so happen to see and want to know where she goes… The list of abuse is goes on and on and on... and that doesn't even bring about the fact that it becomes at target to hack.
Camden County Missouri has made an ordinance that within county limits the LPR and flock cameras are not allowed. The state however refused to remove the last camera along the highway. One of the council members removed it himself after so long and now has charges against him and the state put the camera back almost immediately
They have recently installed flock cameras in and around my tiny town in East Tennessee. This is a ridiculous violation of our 4th amendment right against warrantless search.
Companies name their products for their customers. It is telling that municipalities are marketed and sold a product called "flock". They really do think of us as sheep.
Exactly. There is a reason things are named what they are, and there is a reason for company logos. I got blocked from my twitter account for saying the lights on the Space Needle looked a lot like what Dr Madej saw when looking at the C venom under a 400 power microscope. They have even used movies to show us what they intend to do to us.
The Yuma Sheriff and Yuma PD were gang stalking me for taking pictures in public. I could never figure out how they were always following me around town. This explains a lot.
make a photo-blog website of "scenic yuma" and "people of yuma" and "yuma life". when they ask what you're doing, show them the blog and ask them if they'd like to pose for a photo.
Ill take " things this that never happened for 2000, alex" 😂😂 one look at this guys unhinged profile tells me the "pictures" you were taking were of the "civil rights auditor" variety. The ones where you go into a public building and get in everyones face with a camera trying to get someone to snap..losers like you dont help the injustice going on in this country. You just make it worse.stop blaming the police for all our problems because some of them are out of line. Its the politicians setting the rules.
We already have telescreens on our walls and carry around location tracking listening devices all day. Naturally they think nothing of putting up a bunch of cameras to build profiles of every one of us. Big Brother has been masquerading as Uncle Sam for longer than you think.
The simple action of them doing this should be prison time. We have our rights violated all the time and we're always playing catch up because theres no repercussions for them doing such things
It is unreasonable to anyone to think that random people are recording your every move all day, everyday to use for who knows what use. It's unconstitutional.
They are all over the place here in Georgia, even rural roads in the middle of nowhere. The problem is going to be that even if these are taken down from public rights of way, they will still be voluntarily installed on private properties (companies like Lowes and HOAs pay to have them). Maybe in the future they will incentivize private individuals to have a flock camera. Then the corporations still track us.
We've got them here in Jackson county, Michigan. Never asked for them, never needed them. Police said they'll keep them, even though people don't want them.
Privacy in 2025? Yeah good luck with that. Unless you are in the middle of absolutely nowhere, you’re cooked. And even then, all it takes is a drone to find you.
Thanks for your humanitarian work. I strongly believe that; doesn't matter what the law orders: government don't care about. They'll continue doing it. As always.
While they’re following your vehicle around the city, if you are a target, they’ll be breaking into your house vandalizing it, knowing that you are not home. How do I know this? These cameras have been all around Manalapan New Jersey where I lived for 30 years as original owner as far back as 2018.
I am on social security and do not have much in disposable income. I do donate when possible to the Institute for Justice. Your organization is critical in protecting us from overly aggressive policing. George Orwell type shit
Just like the Patriot Act, that nobody had the time to read before signing upon. The myth about the Patriot Act - that every tone just thinks that it expired. Some of it has, almost all of it has not. Or expand upon it. The same *OBAMA that deported three million* also signed Presidential Order 20, to expand upon the Patriot Act
Thank you for this informative video. I live in a rural village, one of the larger towns, near by, is where I shop and get services. Yep, they have Flock Surveillance. Not happy.
Anyone can access Flocks information. It's open source and not secured system. A private investigator could access any and all information. Actually, anyone can if you know what you're doing.
They can put AI powered surveillance on the delivery trucks , but still cannot get anything anywhere in a reasonable time and intact . It's like having a magic lamp that grants you unlimited wishes , but , they come out of a woodchopper at wholly random times weeks or months later .
This is the literally the hill freedom in this country will either live or die on. If this is allowed, theres no stopping unlimited survielance and tracking and private use of that data for profit and abuse. Flock should be audited and sued for and by every person they are illegaling stalking.
Thanks to everyone who says '"This doesn't affect me because I have nothing to hide": It's exactly that kind of erroneous thinking that has brought us to this place. People paying to wear Fitbits and having surveillance devices in their own homes is pure insanity. It's no wonder the powers-that-be are ramping up the surveillance out in the open. Let's just hope IJ and Mr. Schmidt prevail in this lawsuit!
What brought us to this situation is crime that's what there for it helps with abduction and stolen cars u know bad shit it's always a complaint until that's ur car that just been stolen from ur driveway.
@@bobsmith2691 It's invading privacy when it is using AI to track innocent individuals and build profiles of all of us on a global basis, which goes far beyond snapping random photos .
Benjamin Franklin once said: "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." "Safety" like those kids in Uvalde, TX. The Supreme Court has said that the police have NO DUTY to protect the public: Castle Rock v. Gonzales, DeShaney v. Winnebago County and Warren v. DC.
Man i used to stay in Norfolk and went to ODU. This is very creepy! But think about it, if you have a smartphone or anything like that in your car, they’re doing the same thing.
Absolutely. I remember when people were worried about everyone getting a chip under their skin (or whatever)… What many people don’t realize is we all got a chip anyway and we didn’t even have to be held down. 😮
Volusia County Florida has Flock Cameras everywhere. Our Sheriff is insane and feels the need to surveil everyone who lives here. We need help to Sue the Sheriff here.
This and other stories make note of government use of this technology but you never read or hear about the extensive use of license plate readers and databases that are used by repo companies. They’ve been at this for years. I’ve seen them trolling the parking lots in and around my workplace approximately once every three months. That seems like an awful lot of people being tracked relative to the number of cars that are overdue on auto loans.
It also uses AI and automated image detection algorithms. They can do searches for "fuzzy logic". "Show me all of the Red trucks who have a white bumper sticker on the right side rear bumper." Which introduces a huge issue if they use those results as PC to get a warrant.
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I'm being surveiled for 10 years straight... for exhale, every time i go to a new place (leave my geo fence) they sick the cops on me to see what I'm doing in the new place.....p.s. did you know, police use the TPMS system to track cars?
1984 police state. All roads paved with good intentions still lead to hell. Any gov organization stating that they are doing something for your" safety" is lying and only seeks to have more power and control over you and it ALWAYS is mishandled where there is frequent abuse.
Good idea. Start in the vicinity of all doughnut shops.
We're being biologically surveilled in our own homes right now folks. Better get ahead of this unless you're just here to make people believe there's some fighting back.
The bladrunners in the UK have a good approach to tackling overreaching surveillance cameras.
What's creepier than the cameras are the town officials and cops who think this is a wonderful idea.
They don’t give a crap about you! “Money, please!?!”
'Cause they're LAZY & won't have to do their job--INVESTIGATE.
"but if you're not breaking the law you have nothing to worry about". Yeah, that's bullshit.
This is why the founders wrote a forgotten document called the Deck luh rashun uv En duh pen dance. It tells about what we are to do when government no longer serves our needs.
They're nice if you got your car stolen, tracking down a shooter, tracking down an amber alert vehicle, and finding a hit & run driver...but there is no oversight on these. I have seen personal use cases already, they are being abused. Flock does have transparency report portals which are optional for departments to publish, it shows reasons listed in each query. Suspicion is one of the widely used phrases in the justification note section, sometimes they just put "pd" in the box. Departmental policy can not keep this program checked & balanced. They say the FBI does not have direct access, but they do.
Let's make it accessible to the public so we can track all the government officials and employees! Bet it'll disappear after that.
Or Healthcare ceo
it is if you're good enough
I was thinking the same thing. We should be able to track the biggest criminals in our city. The police and city council of course.
Bingo!
Exactly, good post.
*This is not only in Norfolk.*
These FLOCK cameras are _all over_ the country.
Yes- true, Neighboring city of Suffolk has them all over, even in the rural areas.
They boast 1 BILLION hits a day
This is covered in the video. Over 5000 communities use this.
We have them in central Florida
This video even shows that they aren't just in VA. Did you even watch it? 😅
Creepy is right. How about we put those cameras in public buildings and watch the watchers?
They already do. Those things (not human) don't care because they're inbred sheep.
Courts allow the public to see their affairs, oh no, ...
@@danielraypickrel4316 sheep
Know your place, peasant.
Exactly look how they freaked out about auditors@@danielraypickrel4316
I support the Institute for Justice
Please, everyone make sure to support them monetarily. Most banks today will do automatic payments, and so I have a small check going out to them every month, and don't even have to think about it.
i was skeptical at first but they've slowly been building my respect. They've done a great deal of great work I hope to see they maintain their integrity.
Said the criminal
@@김수진-z4h2z Said the bootlicker
@@김수진-z4h2z is this a response of a criminal or tyrant
I think it was in Belgium prior to World War II that people had to register their religion with the government. Of course, there were objections. But, the government said that nothing would happen. Then Germany invaded Blegium and accessed those paper records and found out where all the Jews were living and rounded them up more easily. And THIS is the problem with having records of private people's information.
This was the comment I've been looking for. Thank you.
IBM already had the census data ready for the Nazis. The participation of IBM in the Holocaust was kept secret until the 1990s. The number on the wrist of German prisoners was their IBM punchcard number.
All it takes is one bad actor. I don’t care if their intentions are good ( to be clear, I don’t believe they are, being in the vicinity of some random crime could ruin your life with this) all it takes is one person who is acting in bad faith. One person with power can ruin so many lives.
@@Marynicole830 Yes, exactly
Yes, and that was an inside job, by a follower of Hitler.
I'm so happy that IJ has taken on this case. Flock cameras are an absolute overstep of government.
Go for the “head of the snake” by taking the company to court for providing the tech to unconstitutionally provide data without court warrants.
That's currently happening.
Yesterday, the city of Cincinnati announced a new, voluntary, program for civilians and businesses to link their private security cameras to the police department. They claim that cops won't be able to just login and watch your camera feed, but you know they will.
If not the cops the feds for sure.
You can bet they will if you commit a crime. They will likely say, because you agreed, signed up and gave them permission, they don't need a warrant. You would have to be insane to give the police access to any camera or recording device. Remember when they used to hood wink parents in to getting their kids finger printed at the police department "in case of kid napping" Yeah, do you think they don't use that information in every crime? Your kid never agreed to have their finger prints databased but, there they are for the rest of their lives.
They can and do already get Ring (and others) footage from private camera systems whether you like it or not.
Tried this in Utah as well... I think it was in conjunction with RING though, not that RING can't already share your camera footage with anyone who will pay money for it....
They never create a way for the general public, at random, to keep an eye on the activity of those cameras! Too much accountability!
We live in an increasingly authoritarian Police State.
Yes we are and I for one am tired of it!!! 😢
Basically we are the frog in boiling water. They are slowly turning up the heat by taking and breaking each constitutional right. People keep writing things off under the pretense of crime being the worst it’s been (not true) and “if you didn’t do anything then there’s nothing to worry about “ (like innocence stands in the way of a conviction or forced plea).
It’s basically “back the blue til it happens to you!” In a nutshell.
So they can work from home
We are all criminals in one way or another in the eyes of government.
Dont be DUMB...theres cams everywhere already.....your ah lame....
This 100% is an invasion of privacy. Why does anyone need to know where everyone is? The vast, vast majority of citizens are law abiding, what gives the police the belief they can violate everyone's constitutional rights by an unlawful search?
Would it be different if they put it up in high crime areas?
Because sadly and disturbing they can it's a security risk for citizens
@@funkydiscogod And who says what a "high crime area" is, the police, once you give them an inch they will drag you a mile.
"You can be tracked in public" was created in an environment where "everyone can be tracked in public" was infeasible.
And it's been proven that few employees of this company got cought tracking their exes...
This WILL result in police shortcutting their investigations to "the system told us you deviated from your routine today, can you prove your whereabouts?"
Guilty until proven innocent every time.
This is already happening with predictive policing
@@frotobaggins7169
Hopefully that changes or we may have to figure out how to secure a future for us and the younger generation with some sort of reforms and overhaul the bureaucracy.
Everyone should consider guilty until proven innocent to be a problem because of the court systems eagerness to pick with completely innocent men and women.
Guilty until proven beyond a reasonable doubt is the only absolution.
Already happened in town of Suffolk, VA. Someone got shot at during a road rage incident. They called the police and they did an “investigation”. Police said they did have enough evidence but, as the driver stated, there were Flock cameras on the road they were driving on. They closed their investigation later that day.
Thank you so much for covering this.
Americans are not the enemy. It's the government that needs to be watched and be held accountable.
Many LEO's are terrified of citizens recording them in public, but at the same time sing the praises of unconstitutionally surveilling those very same citizens!
The scariest part is police are gonna start coming to your door to talk to you when you take a different street home than your normal route. Gotta make sure your not doing anything suspicious
I try to go different routes as much as possible. I don't have a routine. But with enough cameras, they can follow you wherever you go.
we only have ring doorbell cameras at the houses around where i live
i walk the streets here with a sword (entirely legal, no permit or anything needed), dont behave menacingly or anything bad
i saw someone in his car looking terrified, i could hear his call bc it was on speaker, it was super loud, this was several blocks from my house, he did not follow me at all
soon after, the cops showed up at my door, they knew exactly which house i entered at the end of my walk
It's easy for officials to justify this kind of garbage in the name of public safety but the reality is that you're surrendering your liberty for nothing. Thanks for taking this case, IJ!
That's exactly what Mayor Karen Bass of Los Angeles said while she was with Trump.
We have to keep people safe - so she won't let the homeowners go back to their properties.
Trump called her out on that B.S.
@@skippylippy547 only because it happened to make him look better in the moment. You really think he wouldn’t be on board with this crap? He has already shown allegiance to tyrant cops and politicians. He openly talks about it. Mass surveillance is right up his alley. He may dance around it or deny it when asked directly but his actions and other words in the past clearly shows he is on the side of authoritarianism, fascism, and tyranny. It’s like the meaning of these words, especially tyranny, have been lost. It’s not just what you don’t like, it’s a set of governmental behaviors and polices.
If a cop can pull up to a car they suspect is stolen and beat the crap out of the janitor because he had keys in his hands and didn’t want to talk to them anymore (the keys were for the company and looked nothing like a car fob. They were old fashioned keys, yet they claim they thought the huge ring of dozens of keys were for the car in question) and get away with it, their department saying they didn’t violate policy (means nothing. Their policy doesn’t reflect the law or morality) then we are already well into these things we use those words to describe. And when the sitting president supports the people who perpetuate it? It’s not good. I’ll tell you that.
He’s evil, the dems are useless and we have lost this country already. We aren’t going to get it back by sucking up to the politicians that got us here (and yes, Trump is included) or the wealthy that are guiding the government in this direction. There is a class where the law protects but doesn’t bind, and a class where the law binds and doesn’t protect. All that’s happening now is what has always happened, it’s just the group that is protected is getting smaller and the group that is bound is getting larger so people who used to be in the former group find themselves in the latter these days. They act so surprised but it’s always been like this, it’s just happened to people you didn’t care about.
The world is becoming a dystopian nightmare
Maybe one day people will wake up and realize we lost our rights a long time ago.
You folks are the best!!!! Thank you IJ!!!!!!
These cameras are nationwide...In practically every city! I just found out my city has 9 of them, Population around 30K people...And I'm betting they are abused and used for nefarious intentions by all law enforcement...That power is just too tempting for them to resist!
I work in Wichita, a few months ago a driver hit my car at a busy city intersection and ran off. I called the WPD to the scene (showed up after a half hour) who assured me that unfortunately they could do nothing to track the car, in fact when I called 911 I provided the direction of travel of the runaway car but instead they bogged me down on the phone to get my details first. This was late at night and very little traffic, it was a hit and run. Now I learn that there are cameras and at the very least at the traffic lights! Now I’m upset, I had to pay a deductible of 750 $!! No effort was made to find the perpetrator!
A few years ago my cousin was parked on the street by her apartment. Overnight an SUV rammed into her parked car and drove away. The entire thing was caught on a surveillance camera of the office next door and someone down the street got the plate. When called out, Chicago police said it "wasn't their job" to catch this person and told her to give the info to her insurance.
@@HariSeldon913 amazing
I guess this means the cameras are not to assist citizens but to spy on them .
Because these cameras aren't there to HELP you. They are there to persecute you.
@@HariSeldon913 They have no duty to act. So why do we need them.
Thank you Lee and the Institute for Justice. This surveillance is unconstitutional, I certainly hope that the justice system supports us.
If a judge ruled them illegal then the citizen's need to start pulling them down
Good luck with that. I hope you like prison clothes.
Why wait for a a judge ?
@kaboom4679
Uhmm .... cuz .... jail maybe?
Just announce how much copper is in one, and the street bums will do it for us. 👍👍
Blade Runners like in the UK. 😃
I've seen them everywhere here in southeast, GA. People, the cameras only look 1 direction. It surprises me why mysterious damage isn't constantly occurring to these illegal government devices. I think it should start.
Carrollton Georgia has them
Oh look a chainsaw cut the pole that Flock eyeball was impaled on! Oh my 😮
This comment got you put on a list somewhere...........😉
We're"on a list" as soon as we're born my friend.@@MXstar189
You have to have a warrant signed by a judge in order to put a tracker on a car but they can do this and get around it. I don't see how that doesn't fly in the face of previous rulings. Ridiculous!
Countermeasures: spray paint, paint balls, trash bags, sticky mouse traps, accidentally ran over, accidentally of course 😂
Yep. Cut the wires
@longsleevethong1457 I think they are wireless.
none of that actually destroys the camera though. I wonder how much power a laser needs to damage the sensor?
Our rural POA tried to go behind the resident's backs and put these in. Luckily we found out and put a stop to it. Now I'm running for the board to ensure this sort of nonsense doesn't happen again.
It would be a real shame if something happened to those cameras.
That's what I'm saying lol Europeans have been showing us exactly how to deal with this for at least the last 5 years now.
Sad, but it would only cost the taxpayer money. Then the City woud replace them...more cost.
@@deadave100 we're already paying for them: The installs, maintenance/upkeep, the network that makes the footage available, etc. ... What I'm referring to is getting our moneys' worth for this thing we in no way, shape, or form asked for... 🤣😂🤷♂️
@@deadave100
The ULEZ contract makes ULEZ pay for repairs and replacements.
God bless those angels of freedom.
A magnetron will burnout the camera
Here in Memphis, TN these exact cameras are EVERYWHERE‼️On streets, shopping center parking lots, AND in most other parking lots around the city. So many in fact that even a short trip in the city, you’ll pass by quite a few. These license plate readers are also mounted on the emergency blue light bar atop a number of the police cars!
You might say, big brother is watching like never before!
This is an absolute huge issue. I used to have one of these cameras at an apartment complex that I owned, and the company would encourage me to share the information with the police department. The purpose of this was to keep my tenants, safe and secure, and if something occurred on the property, I could then report it, but taking that extra step of allowing the police department to access it whenever they wanted seemed a bridge too far and I eventually got rid of the system. And it's worse than this because these systems are intertwining with license plate readers on police cruisers and other city vehicles to the point where you can track where cars are going across state lines. There are multiple cases in Arkansas available on RUclips where they pulled a vehicle over and got a major drug bust… During the interrogation of the driver, the driver will say something to the effect of "I'm coming from Oklahoma" and the officer will say "well your vehicle was observed in New Mexico yesterday and you've driven down this road back-and-forth multiple times in the last month"… It really is not OK. privacy laws need to be made much stronger, this information needs to be dumped every x amount of days, and courts need to be involved in even accessing the system because without that, of course they're going to start tracking their wives and girlfriends… Their political opponents… Or the cute girl driving the Mustang that they just so happen to see and want to know where she goes… The list of abuse is goes on and on and on... and that doesn't even bring about the fact that it becomes at target to hack.
Camden County Missouri has made an ordinance that within county limits the LPR and flock cameras are not allowed. The state however refused to remove the last camera along the highway. One of the council members removed it himself after so long and now has charges against him and the state put the camera back almost immediately
County sheriff is highest law of the land. Not state police. Elected sheriff can end it if he chooses too.
So glad I quit visiting that area regularly a decade ago.
Let's not ignore the 4,000 FedEx trucks being equipped with this same cameras and sharing their data as well!
That's what I was thinking.
Home Depot is also installing them at their parking lot entrances to capture every vehicle entering.
Same with Lowe’s.
They have recently installed flock cameras in and around my tiny town in East Tennessee. This is a ridiculous violation of our 4th amendment right against warrantless search.
How is it a violation? It’s on public property and is reading your license plate which case law supports.
Our county gave up on cameras when their first dozen were shot to pieces or taken to use as trail cams. A country boy can survive.
I always spoke out against store loyalty programs back in 1992. Don't say "Nobody spoke out" I spoke out!
Flat out unconstitutional
According to the internet they're easily disabled one wire between the solar panel and camera.
Flock out unconstitutional
Not when you are using a public roadway..... may not like it but it's not illegal.
@@BUCKETJON flock out unconstitutional
@@alm4132 we’ll see Kamela Xi
Companies name their products for their customers. It is telling that municipalities are marketed and sold a product called "flock". They really do think of us as sheep.
Exactly. There is a reason things are named what they are, and there is a reason for company logos. I got blocked from my twitter account for saying the lights on the Space Needle looked a lot like what Dr Madej saw when looking at the C venom under a 400 power microscope. They have even used movies to show us what they intend to do to us.
Anyone living in a city with these should be filing a law suit to end the unconstitutional surveillance. How this legal is beyond me.
Thank you for bringing this to our attention !
Seems like this is a good time for someone to pull a cool hand Luke on the cameras
IIRC, that does not end well.
Just wait till they figure out how to use it for civil forfeitures and turn a profit on it!
Judges, please deal with these surveillance violations.
The Yuma Sheriff and Yuma PD were gang stalking me for taking pictures in public. I could never figure out how they were always following me around town.
This explains a lot.
make a photo-blog website of "scenic yuma" and "people of yuma" and "yuma life".
when they ask what you're doing, show them the blog and ask them if they'd like to pose for a photo.
@bashisobsolete.pythonismyn6321 cop pose for a photo!!!🤣
@bashisobsolete.pythonismyn6321 I don’t think you quite grasp the barren hellscape that is Yuma Arizona.
Even if the city doesn’t have cameras, they could very well be tracking through GPS or phone tracking.
Ill take " things this that never happened for 2000, alex" 😂😂 one look at this guys unhinged profile tells me the "pictures" you were taking were of the "civil rights auditor" variety. The ones where you go into a public building and get in everyones face with a camera trying to get someone to snap..losers like you dont help the injustice going on in this country. You just make it worse.stop blaming the police for all our problems because some of them are out of line. Its the politicians setting the rules.
Just looked it up and Richmond and Chesterfield County VA also have this system. I’m appalled.
We already have telescreens on our walls and carry around location tracking listening devices all day. Naturally they think nothing of putting up a bunch of cameras to build profiles of every one of us. Big Brother has been masquerading as Uncle Sam for longer than you think.
The simple action of them doing this should be prison time. We have our rights violated all the time and we're always playing catch up because theres no repercussions for them doing such things
It is unreasonable to anyone to think that random people are recording your every move all day, everyday to use for who knows what use. It's unconstitutional.
PRIVACY is the vital issue of this age. THANK YOU for filing this lawsuit. Please keep us posted on its status.
They are all over the place here in Georgia, even rural roads in the middle of nowhere. The problem is going to be that even if these are taken down from public rights of way, they will still be voluntarily installed on private properties (companies like Lowes and HOAs pay to have them). Maybe in the future they will incentivize private individuals to have a flock camera. Then the corporations still track us.
We've got them here in Jackson county, Michigan. Never asked for them, never needed them. Police said they'll keep them, even though people don't want them.
Surveillance
Monitoring
Analysis
Reporting
Tracking
Good reminder
A.C.R.O.N.Y.M
You forgot selling ; ultimately someone will start selling that data..
Unwarranted search leads to unwarranted seizure.
Privacy in 2025? Yeah good luck with that. Unless you are in the middle of absolutely nowhere, you’re cooked. And even then, all it takes is a drone to find you.
Satellites.
There is now satellite technology that can see into your home, underground, and through dense jungles.
Thanks for your humanitarian work.
I strongly believe that; doesn't matter what the law orders: government don't care about. They'll continue doing it. As always.
While they’re following your vehicle around the city, if you are a target, they’ll be breaking into your house vandalizing it, knowing that you are not home. How do I know this? These cameras have been all around Manalapan New Jersey where I lived for 30 years as original owner as far back as 2018.
Thank you , Sir!!! I will check to see if any localities in my city use this.
Cant tell you where the drones come from but we can track people going to work. You know just incase the people rebel
They WONT tell you where the drones come from .
Huge difference .
It pisses me off even more that they are taking your money to watch you. Who asked for that?
I am on social security and do not have much in disposable income. I do donate when possible to the Institute for Justice. Your organization is critical in protecting us from overly aggressive policing. George Orwell type shit
Damn strait!~ keep up the good work IJ
Under the guise of safety, most will give up their Constitutional rights.
Just like the Patriot Act, that nobody had the time to read before signing upon. The myth about the Patriot Act - that every tone just thinks that it expired. Some of it has, almost all of it has not.
Or expand upon it. The same *OBAMA that deported three million* also signed Presidential Order 20, to expand upon the Patriot Act
I don’t trust this at all way to easy for abuse 😊
They are everywhere in Colorado springs, just started seeing them a couple years ago. Very few areas you can go without seeing them
Thank you for this informative video. I live in a rural village, one of the larger towns, near by, is where I shop and get services. Yep, they have Flock Surveillance. Not happy.
Anyone can access Flocks information. It's open source and not secured system. A private investigator could access any and all information. Actually, anyone can if you know what you're doing.
I can only donate $5 a month to the IFJ. I wish I could give more, but i know it is put to fantastic use with causes like this.
What about all those satellites above us? The eyes in the sky.
What The Flock ?!?!
They are on every FedEx truck too
That's even worse. My neighbor gets FedEx deliveries almost daily. Thanks for the heads up.
They can put AI powered surveillance on the delivery trucks , but still cannot get anything anywhere in a reasonable time and intact .
It's like having a magic lamp that grants you unlimited wishes , but , they come out of a woodchopper at wholly random times weeks or months later .
This is the literally the hill freedom in this country will either live or die on. If this is allowed, theres no stopping unlimited survielance and tracking and private use of that data for profit and abuse.
Flock should be audited and sued for and by every person they are illegaling stalking.
Thanks to everyone who says '"This doesn't affect me because I have nothing to hide": It's exactly that kind of erroneous thinking that has brought us to this place. People paying to wear Fitbits and having surveillance devices in their own homes is pure insanity. It's no wonder the powers-that-be are ramping up the surveillance out in the open. Let's just hope IJ and Mr. Schmidt prevail in this lawsuit!
What brought us to this situation is crime that's what there for it helps with abduction and stolen cars u know bad shit it's always a complaint until that's ur car that just been stolen from ur driveway.
The cameras are in public spaces. I’m no fan but I don’t see how it is invading privacy. There’s no assumption of privacy in public spaces.
@@bobsmith2691 It's invading privacy when it is using AI to track innocent individuals and build profiles of all of us on a global basis, which goes far beyond snapping random photos .
Benjamin Franklin once said: "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."
"Safety" like those kids in Uvalde, TX. The Supreme Court has said that the police have NO DUTY to protect the public: Castle Rock v. Gonzales, DeShaney v. Winnebago County and Warren v. DC.
These are already in place throughput Kentuckiana (Indiana/Kentucky)
I love how Flock has positive sounding reassuring names for things like "Safety Falcon". Dystopia.
Thank you for your for fight against the government!
Great video!
This is the most Orwellian surveillance of the citizens yet.
Man i used to stay in Norfolk and went to ODU. This is very creepy! But think about it, if you have a smartphone or anything like that in your car, they’re doing the same thing.
I put my phone in a RF puch that block radio signals. The phone power usage shoots up as it tries desperately to find a signal.
Absolutely. I remember when people were worried about everyone getting a chip under their skin (or whatever)… What many people don’t realize is we all got a chip anyway and we didn’t even have to be held down. 😮
Cell phones are run by the government?
@@vincei4252 If you're taking that kind of measure shut your phone off.
You have to be pretty stupid to think having a cellphone is anything at all like having cameras tracking you across the city.
Fun fact: even if your phone is off and you carry it with you, you are still being tracked anyway.
Cops have been caught using this system to track ex girlfriends, its much easier to abuse this system than getting a data warrant for tracking phones.
Faraday bags
SIM card!!
If they are actually off, they cannot track the phone.
@@stevenmiller6725 they can. As long as a cell tower is in the vicinity.
Totally unacceptable.
Probably a clause in the patriot act allows this? I don't think it will be reversed.
I appreciate you guys bringing attention to this and I am donating right now !
15 minute city
Volusia County Florida has Flock Cameras everywhere. Our Sheriff is insane and feels the need to surveil everyone who lives here.
We need help to Sue the Sheriff here.
Is it the same county that runs people out that *may* be a problem?
How did sueing King George work out for the founders? What advice did they leave us?
It's been here for decades. It's probably in your pocket right now.
thank you for taking up this fight.
Go get em I.J.
They put those DEI people who apparently never heard of civil rights as head of departments
Thank you guys for you protection of our constitutional rights
They are everywhere in my city. Overnight they just started showing up absolutely everywhere
That's Evil inc. working in the dark to better serve the "Masters".
make it stop
Keep up the good work love it
A local town near me recently rolled out Flock Cameras, safe to say I'm avoiding that town at all costs now.
All over Central Florida too.
This and other stories make note of government use of this technology but you never read or hear about the extensive use of license plate readers and databases that are used by repo companies. They’ve been at this for years. I’ve seen them trolling the parking lots in and around my workplace approximately once every three months. That seems like an awful lot of people being tracked relative to the number of cars that are overdue on auto loans.
*1st Ammendment 🇺🇸 if you are in public everyone has a right to know*
We should all be able to track all of the government vehicles (excuse me vehicles owned by us the taxpayers).
It also uses AI and automated image detection algorithms.
They can do searches for "fuzzy logic". "Show me all of the Red trucks who have a white bumper sticker on the right side rear bumper."
Which introduces a huge issue if they use those results as PC to get a warrant.