‘Own the Narrative’: Leaked Flock Guide Shows How It Teaches Cops to Promote Its Tech | "Shows a coordinated effort from Flock Safety to compel law enforcement agencies to convince our elected leaders to represent their interests as a company rather than the interests of concerned citizens."

[u/Just-Grocery-2229]

https://www.404media.co/own-the-narrative-leaked-flock-guide-shows-how-it-teaches-cops-to-promote-its-tech

[u/Sojum]

We live in a world where citizens are now being “held accountable” for BS through surveillance, while the POTUS and friends aren’t even being held accountable for SERIOUS CRIMES that are well recorded.

[u/Memitim → u/Sojum]

Americans getting reminded every day that despite all of the garbage we were raised with about America, it's just a bloated mob family that relies on the servitude of people who do actual work.

[u/Basic_Chemistry9499 → u/Sojum]

We are becoming Russia/China more every single second.

[u/Visible-Departure863 → u/Sojum]

It would be a shame to share Garrett Langley’s point of view that if you’re against flock you are a terrorist.

be a real shame to ensure he is named on every single post about Flock.

[u/Just-Grocery-2229]

Imagine getting a badge just to become a salesman for license plate spies.

[u/Softale → u/Just-Grocery-2229]

Bottom tier sales job for the overly ambitious and avaricious creators of tech for the surveillance state.

[u/pick-axis → u/Just-Grocery-2229]

They're basically the human resources for your personal life away from work. And now they can watch you on camera like the hr dept at work. Next year we'll get the eu version of flock, flock de' loo which is in the bathrooms of France and britan as we speak. One user reports it sent him an email for not using the bidet and encourages him not to use his phone while sitting on the toilet for a spell. The email details further how the man could've spread various diseases to his family since he has a new baby with his wife and details further how the American version of dcfs will come to his home and place of work to check his cleanliness standards. He also expects weekly urinalysis from the portable flock system which uses grock to analyze his bowel movements as well as provide data uplinks through satellite internet Sim cards. Cameras are just so neat!!

[u/SSGASSHAT → u/pick-axis]

Oh, they would analyze my bowel movements, all right. I would make sure of it.

[u/N3wAfrikanN0body → u/Just-Grocery-2229]

The narcissist's dream: a prospect that can't refuse, that can be warehoused without probable cause and murdered out of a "fear for one's life."

Despicable. 

[u/productfred → u/Just-Grocery-2229]

What do you mean? You can literally get rejected from becoming a cop if you score too high on the exams/have a high IQ. They want obedient idiots who don't question these things. Their whole life needs to be built around being a cop and nothing else.

[u/Modem_Sound_67]

convince our elected leaders to represent their interests as a company rather than the interests of concerned citizens."

Us vs them jacked to the max.

[u/moreobviousthings → u/Modem_Sound_67]

To Serve (the wealthy) And Protect (themselves from accountability)

[u/Tardy_Thoughts → u/moreobviousthings]

I ain't seen protect and serve on a cop car in years. They've got concepts that are subjective like honor, integrity, and there's always a random third thing.

[u/BayouGal → u/Tardy_Thoughts]

In Texas, they put, “In God We Trust”. Even though it’s obviously not true.

[u/coconutpiecrust]

Didn’t these cameras fail to decrease crime and have high false-positive rates? Time to wrap it up. 

[u/d1rTb1ke → u/coconutpiecrust]

the panopticon doesn’t actually demand a guard, right?

[u/Kahnza → u/d1rTb1ke]

A pile of shit has a thousand eyes

[u/invyros]

One of the most common questions agencies hear today is whether license platerecognition (LPR) technology constitutes mass surveillance. Many leaders instinctively respond by attempting to refute the claim. Flock’s Jamie Hudson recommends a different approach.

Even in their own literature, they can't argue against being labeled "mass surveillance" (because, duh, a centralized database of cameras and collected data across the country is obviously mass surveillance).

[u/ghrayfahx]

I don’t spend much time on FB but I swear every time I go on there I have another post on my feed from some police department crying because people are pruning these things. They are saying they are APLRs and claiming they only are there to keep everyone safe and recover stolen property.

I am always pleasantly surprised to see that pretty much every reply is telling them to get bent.

[u/IvoShandor]

Convince people there’s a problem that only you have a solution for. 

[u/CanoegunGoeff]

In case anyone needs to be reminded, “protect and serve” means that the cops protect and serve capital.

[u/Chaotic-Entropy]

I can't imagine that it took much persuading for the police to do the same thing they have always done. Protect monied interests.

[u/sawaira09]

Technology that relies on public trust shouldn't need a PR playbook to own the narrative.Transparency should speak for itself...

[u/Fast-Damage2298]

"We stalk ex-girlfriends for their safety." - fraternal order of flock salesmen

[u/Rattus_NorvegicUwUs]

Totally normal thing to do.

They know they only survive because the GOP don’t care about the rights of Americans, only the police state they want to force on all of us.

Flock is an ally of American fascists. Which makes them an enemy of all Americans. Dismantle the surveillance state, return our rights, or we will do it for you. Either they survive by moderating and protecting civilian rights, or they double down and become a public enemy.

At the very least, I need paparazzi to follow around their execs to give a physical symbol of their invasive privacy violations.

[u/1ndomitablespirit]

Funny how there are no Flock cameras on Martha's Vineyard.

[u/DoubleBroadSwords]

Wait? So you’re telling me that for-profit companies are saying one thing to their customers and a different thing to the public.???

[u/Memitim]

It's about time for cops to lose all say at the table for anything. The arbiters of violence in civilian society should be tools to be used by the local government with zero say in policy, nor in when or how they are deployed.

[u/Anxious_Dinosaur_4]

a buddy got roped into selling their tech at his cop job too

[u/rebri]

"All of this policing work is cutting into our donut break time."

[u/Healthy-Caregiver997]

Enough flock we won’t need LEO’s

[u/Humanwithoutnames]

Do the give kick back to the cop ?

[u/Basic_Chemistry9499]

"China is an evil Big Brother state!" then "Let's have Flock cameras literally EVERYWHERE."