How come any area that has enough homes in the data set and ALPR have Veterinarians as the most surveilled, then Hospitals, then Libraries, usually over everything else, including food and church?

The strange implication is that they're watching the vet office traffic to find people who are getting treated by vets instead of doctors?

also my parish reports 0.0% across the board, and all the parishes near me. you have to get on the coast to get above 25%.

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sodality2 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

Vets/hospitals are far less common (and the former probably suffers from less tags as hospitals are more important) so the distance one must travel increases, so higher likelihood of crossing one. Especially compared to how common everything else is.

If you check deflock.me, would you say that 0.0% aligns with what you expect?

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genewitch 3 days ago | parent [-]

i suppose that makes sense.

There's 6 cameras in the metro area per deflock.me, 3 at each Lowe's, and that's it. It's very easy to not get in range of those, at least on "my side" of the metro. How do we know that is all the ALPR in an area? Or rather, what's the confidence? I'd assume Home Depot would also have them, for example.

note: maybe i need to restart firefox, but deflock.me is the slowest "map" based site i've seen since keyhole in the late 90s

	▲	sodality2 3 days ago \| parent \| next [-]
		The best thing you can do is keep an eye out and tag them manually. The second best is a FOIA to your county government - there's some good examples on deflock.me and templates on muckrack. But private ones are not going to be FOIA-able. The quality of ALPR tagging does probably lag behind true counts - for example, Williamsburg, VA has 28 tagged on OSM, but 32 are listed in the transparency log (https://transparency.flocksafety.com/williamsburg-va-pd). Unfortunately not much can be done except spotting them out and about (or wardriving with a BLE beacon scanner: https://www.ryanohoro.com/post/spotting-flock-safety-s-falco...)
	▲	rootusrootus 2 days ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		The ones nearest me are at Home Depot, FWIW.

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renewiltord 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Perhaps there's some large chain of vets run by a PE firm where the PE firm did a blanket deal.

	▲	genewitch 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		I didn't mean to allude to this, but i heard that a lot of vet clinics are being bought by PE firms. The same way that a certain internet company is buying all the legal offices (and web medicine sites)