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Met officer sacked after BBC racism probe
A BBC undercover film keeps shaking the Met, with another officer dismissed and more cases still under investigation.
the Guardian · 1m
A Seattle barber says he can't wait any longer
A shop owner describes calling 911 for open drug use and watching no one come.
Fox News · 2m
A license plate hit put her in jail
Florida police leaned on a Flock camera match, then jailed an innocent woman for nearly two weeks despite glaring evidence gaps.
Futurism · 1m
Carrollton votes on 82 Flock cameras
A Texas suburb decides tonight whether to keep 82 license plate readers watching its streets.
FOX 4 News Dallas-Fort Worth · 1m
A Flock camera hit sent troopers to the wrong door
A license plate camera put Lindsey Isaacs in jail for a fatal crash her black Durango was never in.
Valleynewslive · 3m
Loaded gun found in a Staten Island backpack
A fight between two students at Curtis High School led safety agents to a loaded handgun in a bookbag.
ABC7 New York · 1m
Texas shuts down a whole police department
A tiny East Texas force lost its licenses after the state found no vests, no evidence room, and two dozen missing policies.
Dallas Express · 2m
Trump backs Flock cameras as public trust wobbles
The president is behind America's license plate reader network, but nearly half the country is not.
TechRadar · 1m
What happens after a town de-Flocks
Cities are canceling their license plate camera contracts, but the data and the surveillance do not simply disappear.
The Verge · 2m
Trump backs the camera company nobody likes
Flock Safety's reputation is at rock bottom, and the president just gave it a thumbs up.
Futurism · 1m
Portsmouth beach protest: six faces police want named
Hampshire police released images of six men after a night of disorder on Eastney beach turned violent.
Dailymail · 3m
An arrest upends the Mississippi hanging story
A Black mother of four was found hanging from a tree in Jackson, and the arrest that followed looked nothing like the story people expected.
Fox News · 1m
The Palace officer who took his Andrew file to the FBI
A former royal protection officer says British detectives never replied, so he handed his Buckingham Palace evidence to American investigators instead.
Dailymail · 3m
Six men wanted over Portsmouth anti-migrant disorder
Hampshire police sifted hundreds of hours of CCTV after a night at Eastney Marina left seven officers hurt.
the Guardian · 1m
A dawn raid, then a flight out of Britain
A US embassy worker was pulled out of the UK during a child abuse images investigation, and nobody will say if that was legal.
Newsweek · 1m
Flock's installer called 911 on a reporter filming in public
A technician putting up a license plate camera dialed police over being recorded, and three squad cars stopped the reporter holding the camera.
Investigatetv · 3m
Waymo pulled over and called the cops
Two teens with a ghost gun learned that a robotaxi is also a witness.
The Verge · 1m
A cop ran 4,000 illegal plate searches
An Albany County investigator allegedly used Flock's camera network to track her ex 3,000 times.
Futurism · 1m
Texas cities split over Flock cameras
23 Texas governments have pulled back from license plate readers, but Conroe just funded 51 more cameras without a separate vote.
Dallas Express · 2m
Two attempts to find him, then a killing
Sacramento deputies had cause to arrest Rohit Rohit before he killed Shalini Thakur. They just never found him.
California Post · 1m
How Sweden turned the tide on gang violence
Shootings and bombings once hit Sweden almost daily. Police in a Stockholm suburb say the trend has finally broken.
Malay Mail · 2m
He filmed himself pulling down the cameras
A New Mexico man livestreamed himself hauling 10 Flock camera systems into his truck, then drove past the sheriff's office three times.
Fox News · 3m
ICE staged at a Chicago police lot, and nobody will explain
Videos show federal agents transferring detainees in an Albany Park police parking lot, in plain violation of a city order.
Chicago Sun-Times · 2m
Border Patrol is reading your bank activity
A secret Border Patrol unit mines Americans' financial data, then hands tips to local cops who invent a reason to pull you over.
Futurism · 1m
The Enfield shoe salesman in a global drug-rape network
A quiet father of two from north London became the first Briton convicted in a worldwide network of men who drugged and filmed sleeping women.
Dailymail · 3m
NSW police are crushing illegal ebikes
A 14-year-old's ebike hit 90km/h, and NSW now has the power to destroy bikes like it.
the Guardian · 1m
A forklift, a funeral home, and a stolen cash machine
Thieves drove a digger into an Essex funeral director's building at 1.50am to rip out the town's ATM, and the boss's first thought was the bodies inside.
Dailymail · 3m