Flock license plate reader wrongly linked a San Diego man to a violent crime
2026-06-08 01:50 UTC
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@Maeve@kbin.earth 2026-06-08 03:30
The problem, says attorney Alex Coolman, was that Parra was five miles away from Golden Hill at the time of the crime, and the so-called hit from the license plate reader was captured before any police pursuit began. “This Flock hit was obviously the wrong car, as it could not have been in both places simultaneously,” said Coolman, who represents Parra and the driver, 23-year-old Ariel Beltran. Despite the signs pointing to it being a different Alfa Romeo, police arrested Beltran and Parra.
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@BonsaiBoo@lemmy.world 2026-06-08 04:10
But it made some already rich people even more rich, and that’s what’s important here
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@ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works 2026-06-08 04:17
This sounds like police carelessness rather than a problem with the technology - they just decided to arrest the closest person the system could find who had the same rare car.
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@errer@lemmy.world 2026-06-08 05:43
Those license plate reader cameras would be upset if they could read
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@Treczoks@lemmy.world 2026-06-08 05:52
I hope he will make a fortune from any lawsuit against them.
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@lyralycan@sh.itjust.works 2026-06-08 12:05
Yay, the future is AI powered pre-crime and humanoid police bots killing suspects
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@Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz 2026-06-08 09:08
Makes me wonder how many false positives and negatives this system has. If it were a diagnostic test, people would be talking about sensitivity and specificity. Same calculations apply here as well.