Winona police want to know who stole their Flock surveillance cameras

2 months ago by FoxtrotDeltaTango to c/technology

The police say that over the weekend, officers found the poles the cameras were mounted on had been cut down and the cameras were gone. Flock cameras are stirring controversy across the country as they compile license plate and other vehicle details in a national database.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/68943011

floquant 75 points 2 months ago

Must've been the wind

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hbro 59 points 2 months ago

The irony of tracking cameras not having trackers inside them.

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LifeInMultipleChoice 20 points 2 months ago

I imagine they are in the nearest trash bin, but who knows.

(The broken cameras, no idea if they have trackers).

"Sir it appears they cut it down, the next people came by and moved it off the sidewalk, the next people couldn't mow the lawn with it in the way so they through it off to the side, and the building owner had someone move it off his property by having someone put it in the trash so it didn't look like shit"

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Zwuzelmaus 5 points 2 months ago

"Sir it appears they cut it down

You mean, somebody cut it down?

Naaah... surely it was just the wind that moved this chainsaw.

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Salvo 1 point 2 months ago

IIRC they are common SBCs and components. They can be broken down and components resold.

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OwOarchist 12 points 2 months ago

They do have GPS trackers inside, but those can be defeated by putting them in a metal container, underwater, or underground. Or they might be disabled if the camera is destroyed and unpowered.

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RobotToaster 11 points 2 months ago

Even just wrapping them in tinfoil should work.

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echodot -1 points 2 months ago

I don't immigration they are still fully assembled.

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drahardja 44 points 2 months ago

If I saw someone sawing down a Flock camera, I probably didn’t see anyone.

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echodot 8 points 2 months ago

If I lived in the US I'd just go around in blacked out sunglasses the whole time because there's so many things that you better not see.

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cyberpunk007 4 points 2 months ago

I'd give a silent nod and carry on

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ouRKaoS 35 points 2 months ago

Flocky

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Dryad 25 points 2 months ago

They also have a decent amount of RAM inside.

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harrys_balzac 15 points 2 months ago

They should have led with that.

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village604 1 point 2 months ago

2gb of ddr3 is decent?

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Sxan 2 points 2 months ago

Well, it's 16GB total, which would be pretty good for a Pi or two.

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Dryad 32 points 2 months ago

They actually don’t own the cameras though. They rent them for $3,500 annually.

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cmnybo 29 points 2 months ago

Hopefully the solar panels are being used for something useful now like charging some homeless person's phone.

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echodot 2 points 2 months ago

Ship them outside the US and then someone can use them as webcams

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Nfamwap 20 points 2 months ago

Yo dawg, I think you need some cameras to monitor your cameras

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Flower 4 points 2 months ago

Yeah, aren't these things there to prevent vandalism?

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lIlIlIlIlIlIl 9 points 2 months ago

They are to prevent freedoms. Nothing to do with vandalism

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jaybone 4 points 2 months ago

PICTURE IN PICTURE DAWG

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boobookittyfrick 20 points 2 months ago

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njordomir 14 points 2 months ago

I imagine there are also some low level cops relieved to see them gone but don't want to say so publicly. After all, AI is coming for their jobs too. Pretty soon buying a state patrolman a Honda Goldwing to patrol the highway will be an impossible sell when we could just strap a few more cameras to a pole or fly a drone. Everyone but the bootlickiest of the bootlickers will eventually hit their breaking point with this increasing public surveillance, just not until it goes poorly for them personally.

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ayyy 6 points 2 months ago

If they were capable of thinking that holistically and with foresight, they would not be allowed to be hired as cops.

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CADmonkey 5 points 2 months ago

I waa trying and probably failing to explain to someone that no matter who you are or what you believe, one day the fascists will demand of you something you don't want to do.

Even if you're a cop.

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impairedimperator 2 points 2 months ago

Nah, those cameras aren't coming for their jobs at all. Ultimately, the cops will always need bodies holding riot shields and shooting civilians.

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Zwuzelmaus 14 points 2 months ago

Sabotage is a deliberate action aimed at weakening a polity, government, effort, or organization through subversion, obstruction, demoralization, destabilization, division, disruption, or destruction. One who engages in sabotage is a saboteur. Saboteurs typically try to conceal their identities because of the consequences of their actions and to avoid invoking legal and organizational requirements for addressing sabotage.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabotage

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HumanOnEarth 14 points 2 months ago

Amazing song, everyone should hear it

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HangingFruit 11 points 2 months ago

I can’t stand it

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humancrayon 7 points 2 months ago

I know you planned it

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BrianTheeBiscuiteer 13 points 2 months ago

Sounds like something a Flock camera could solve... upp, awwwwww. 😭

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GreenKnight23 11 points 2 months ago

it was ICE. now go arrest them.

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muusemuuse 9 points 2 months ago

Wait, the cameras couldn’t tell you that?

Must not have been very effective.

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chode_tode 8 points 2 months ago

It was those damn pesky KIDS. DAMN KIDS.

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DudleyMason 8 points 2 months ago

Look for someone in a cape. Bcs whoever it was is a hero.

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abbadon420 7 points 2 months ago

They're basically traffic cams, right? So it's probably a Winona Ryder

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AnalogAllamma 7 points 2 months ago

It was the tooth fairy

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lemmyng 5 points 2 months ago

I...am FARTICUS!

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smaximov 4 points 2 months ago

It was me.

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call_me_xale 4 points 2 months ago

Nuh-uh, it was me!

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banause 4 points 2 months ago

yo mama

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RobotToaster 3 points 2 months ago

Are they just cable tied to the pole?

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CADmonkey 1 point 2 months ago

Theyre held on with band clamps/hose clamps.

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OwOarchist 3 points 2 months ago

Sorry, guys. I was using them as dildos and got a little carried away.

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kokesh 2 points 2 months ago

I did!

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Fives 2 points 2 months ago

Good trouble.

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