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FoxtrotDeltaTango@sh.itjust.works to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 10 hours ago

Winona police want to know who stole their Flock surveillance cameras

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Winona police want to know who stole their Flock surveillance cameras

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FoxtrotDeltaTango@sh.itjust.works to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 10 hours ago
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The police say that over the weekend, officers found the poles the cameras were mounted on had been cut down and the cameras were gone. Flock cameras are stirring controversy across the country as they compile license plate and other vehicle details in a national database.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/68943011

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    I did!

  • BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world
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    Sounds like something a Flock camera could solve… upp, awwwwww. 😭

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    They actually don’t own the cameras though. They rent them for $3,500 annually.

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    It was those damn pesky KIDS. DAMN KIDS.

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    I imagine there are also some low level cops relieved to see them gone but don’t want to say so publicly. After all, AI is coming for their jobs too. Pretty soon buying a state patrolman a Honda Goldwing to patrol the highway will be an impossible sell when we could just strap a few more cameras to a pole or fly a drone. Everyone but the bootlickiest of the bootlickers will eventually hit their breaking point with this increasing public surveillance, just not until it goes poorly for them personally.

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    Yo dawg, I think you need some cameras to monitor your cameras

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      PICTURE IN PICTURE DAWG

    • 🌸𝓯𝓵𝓸𝔀𝓮𝓻🌸@sh.itjust.works
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      Yeah, aren’t these things there to prevent vandalism?

      • lIlIlIlIlIlIl@lemmy.world
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        They are to prevent freedoms. Nothing to do with vandalism

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    Flocky

    • Dryad@lemmy.world
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      They also have a decent amount of RAM inside.

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        They should have led with that.

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    It was the tooth fairy

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    If I saw someone sawing down a Flock camera, I probably didn’t see anyone.

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      I’d give a silent nod and carry on

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      If I lived in the US I’d just go around in blacked out sunglasses the whole time because there’s so many things that you better not see.

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    Must’ve been the wind

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    The irony of tracking cameras not having trackers inside them.

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      They do have GPS trackers inside, but those can be defeated by putting them in a metal container, underwater, or underground. Or they might be disabled if the camera is destroyed and unpowered.

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        I don’t immigration they are still fully assembled.

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        Even just wrapping them in tinfoil should work.

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      I imagine they are in the nearest trash bin, but who knows.

      (The broken cameras, no idea if they have trackers).

      “Sir it appears they cut it down, the next people came by and moved it off the sidewalk, the next people couldn’t mow the lawn with it in the way so they through it off to the side, and the building owner had someone move it off his property by having someone put it in the trash so it didn’t look like shit”

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        "Sir it appears they cut it down

        You mean, somebody cut it down?

        Naaah… surely it was just the wind that moved this chainsaw.

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    Hopefully the solar panels are being used for something useful now like charging some homeless person’s phone.

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      Ship them outside the US and then someone can use them as webcams

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    Sabotage is a deliberate action aimed at weakening a polity, government, effort, or organization through subversion, obstruction, demoralization, destabilization, division, disruption, or destruction. One who engages in sabotage is a saboteur. Saboteurs typically try to conceal their identities because of the consequences of their actions and to avoid invoking legal and organizational requirements for addressing sabotage.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabotage

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      Amazing song, everyone should hear it

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        I can’t stand it

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          I know you planned it

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    Sorry, guys. I was using them as dildos and got a little carried away.

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