If you ignore the policy question of do cops even need access to the kind of capabilities Flock tech provides, this particular case becomes a pretty clear example of user error amplified by the capabilities of the tech and not the issue with the tech itself.

The cops didn't realize that the license plate they were searching was a) incomplete and therefore fuzzily matched multiple unrelated vehicles, and b) wasn't even stolen to begin with.

This is similar to running `rm -r *` in a wrong folder and then shifting blame on rm for deleting the stuff you didn't want deleted. Sure, there's maybe a conversation here about overall rm ergonomics and if the average user is even competent enough to be allowed to run it, but the it's first and foremost a user error.