This is a normalizing of the flock cameras type of article:
They call them Flock Safety cameras. I don’t care if that’s the name. We should know them by Flock
This: “The system is widely used because it allows departments to extend their reach without putting more officers on the street.”
This: “Flock cameras do not make errors in the traditional sense. They do exactly what they are programmed to do. The errors happen upstream, in the human process of entering information into databases, and the cameras simply amplify and repeat those errors at scale.”
This is a normalizing of the flock cameras type of article:
Wow that last point. The 1980s wants their “computers don’t make mistakes” myth back.
Bugs aren’t actually errors. The program is doing exactly what it is programmed to do!
The worst thing is people probably believe that because they don’t know any better.