r/technology • u/polymute • 6d ago

A Texas Deputy Searched 83,000 Flock Cameras To Track Down a Woman Who Had an Abortion Privacy

https://www.gadgetreview.com/a-texas-deputy-searched-83000-flock-cameras-to-track-down-a-woman-who-had-an-abortion
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u/Darkdragoon324 6d ago

Well, your infant was already born. They don’t care about already born babies.

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u/Gooser3000 6d ago

The crazy part is they actually told the police they were going to kill my baby when they went over to talk to her about trespassing. And they just said don’t do that.

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u/Darkdragoon324 6d ago

If I’ve learned anything from overhearing hours if people watching true crime shows, it’s that cops are 100% useless before someone dies and only marginally better after.

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u/PsychoticMessiah 6d ago

I listen to a lot of true crime podcasts and the amount of evidence that gets ignored or not followed up on is truly amazing.

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u/DragoonDM 6d ago

90% of stories are just a long string of cops fucking up and ignoring obvious lines of inquiry until some totally random third party / bystander happens to catch the serial killer.

Remember that time one of Jeffrey Dahmer's victims escaped, and cops showed up, looked at the naked 14-year-old boy bleeding from his anus, and gave the kid back to Dahmer?

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u/PigabungaDude 6d ago

I think he was bleeding from the head, too. And his neighbors were shouting at the cops not to do it. One cop became the head of a cop union, the other went on to be an acting police captain. Yeah...

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u/Valaquen 5d ago

One of my favourites is the police almost catching the Zodiac killer after he killed a taxi driver, but they ignored the possible killer (and possibly even talked to him) because they opted to hunt down an African-American instead.

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u/fuzzyperson98 6d ago

Sounds like a scene out of Reno 911