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Automated License Plate Readers (ALPRs) are AI-powered cameras that capture and analyze images of all passing vehicles, storing details like your car’s location, date, and time. They also capture your car’s make, model, color, and identifying features such as dents, roof racks, and bumper stickers, often turning these into searchable data points. These cameras collect data on millions of vehicles—regardless of whether the driver is suspected of a crime. While these systems can be useful for tracking stolen cars or wanted individuals, they are mostly used to track the movements of innocent people.

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Man arrested with truck full of Flock cameras in Albuquerque (www.kob.com)

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Crossposted from https://slrpnk.net/post/42283411

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Bernalillo County Sheriff’s deputies took a man into custody Wednesday after he showed up outside their headquarters with multiple Flock cameras in the back of his pickup truck.

Authorities arrested Jevon Martinez for damaging Flock cameras in Rio Rancho in May. Then, Wednesday, he posted video on social media appearing to show him driving around Albuquerque and taking down automated license plate readers once again.

In those videos, he comments that since the Bernalillo County Sheriff’s Office ended its contract with Flock last month, those cameras should no longer be out on the streets.

"Just for the record, I am not stealing these. I am not destroying them. I am simply returning them to the Bernalillo County Sheriff’s Department,” he said in one video.

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[–] paraphrand@lemmy.world 30 points 5 hours ago

Just returning them. Awesome. 🤣

[–] kibblebits@quokk.au 33 points 6 hours ago

No crime

[–] toiletobserver@lemmy.world 44 points 7 hours ago

Take it to a jury!

[–] MoonRaven@feddit.nl 4 points 4 hours ago

I'm pretty sure I was in the pub with him at the time...

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 8 points 5 hours ago

what cameras, hes collecting them like e-bikes and e-scooters.

[–] artyom@piefed.social 20 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

They don't belong to the Sheriff's dept...

Hopefully he gets a slap on the wrist.

[–] roguetrick@lemmy.world 15 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)

There's no intent to permanently deprive if you literally take something to the authorities for disposition which is a key plank of theft. Not criminal mischief if they're not damaged either.

[–] artyom@piefed.social 1 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Don't quit your day job.

[–] FrowingFostek@lemmy.world 3 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

I appreciate this kinda armchair lawyering. I aspire to speak this confidently about things I have an approximate knowledge of.

[–] AlecSadler@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 6 hours ago

Tax payer dollars, tax payer property.

[–] Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca 9 points 7 hours ago

A bold strategy Cotton...

[–] SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.social 5 points 6 hours ago

Oh you know me I’ll be quirky.

[–] the_wizard_of_0Z@lemmy.ca 4 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

He probably voted for trump but in this moment I love his ass. Fucking GOAT

[–] saltesc@lemmy.world 10 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Making up for past mistakes.

Voting for Trump doesn't make a person a bad person, for many it just means they were duped or pressured, or simply saw the other party as the shittier of shit options. Definitely not an America-only problem.

Giving the praise and bringing back the "Were in this together" comradery is the basis for the US healing and recovering. Like when humanity bands together in an alien invasion movie. Then y'all can go back to squabbling in a few years when times are good again.

[–] artyom@piefed.social 4 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Voting for Trump doesn't make a person a bad person

No it just means they were already a bad person. Or stupid. Really really stupid. Almost as stupid as Trump.

[–] saltesc@lemmy.world -1 points 1 hour ago

To think that way of your fellow countrymen, it's very damaging for your society. It is fuel for the social division you have all been played into.