There is a meaningful value in catching stolen vehicles and child abductors. Not high enough to justify capturing every single plate, but there's a value.

Bear in mind this is not meaningfully different than previous mechanisms of issuing BOLOs. Law enforcement widely distributes information about plates of interest. In my area, those plates are often on digital billboards already.

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qmr 2 hours ago | parent [-]

There's no difference between a BOLO and a panopticon dragnet of always on AI powered cameras?

	▲	ocdtrekkie 2 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		If they solely look for and record sightings of specific plates associated with active investigations? Not a lot, no. The core problem with Flock is that it tracks innocent citizens on the off chance it helps catch a criminal, when it could be designed to only track already known wanted vehicles.