Things and Stuff

Hmmm. 👆”sort of”. But you have to look at the details. And who’s making money along the way…as always.

You really have to look into Flock and the funding. First off it started live in 2017 and is supported by a variety of federal funding.

Here we are some NINE years later screaming BS. NINE YEARS LATER!!! And you might say ok it took a while to figure out how insane it is but understand someone, somewhere thought the entire concept was a great idea. MANY had to agree to it. A fantastic idea. Your rights be damned let’s do this…and make some money. AND get the taxpayers to pay for it. And people in the government said “okey dokey…but I need my kickback too”. Same as every last corrupt thing. Everyone along the way was wrong. Think how many people that involved at the local, state, federal levels. Thousands.

A 2017 start means it went exponential during Trump’s first term. Why? How? Argument could be made he largely or entirely didn’t know because swamp gonna swamp. And he made some bad personnel hires too. The entire process could have been concealed from him and those most trusted. I feel that’s a very valid argument. But yet here we are.

Biden admin took the exponential growth and made it go thermonuclear. Naturally.

“We won against the LAPD…keep it up”.

Not exactly:

Oh…it’s paused not canceled. Ok but maybe that’s semantics.

Cameras still in place. LAPD can’t access the data PREVIOUSLY paid for via taxpayers money. (That is an ironic good thing BTW but the return on financial investment is poor of course)

And the convo centers around data privacy and use. Which should have been the very first thing talked about in 2017…but it wasn’t. At all.

Talks going forward center around a new contract. Not getting rid of the cameras. And LAPD owning the data…

Sounds good or at least “better” until you put it together…it’s the exact same thing just word games. When operational, there was no difference who actually owned the data. It didn’t matter. Flock just got pissed they werent gonna have their contract renewed so they took their toys (the data) and went home. But they still have the data. And the cameras are still there. And when funding returns for a different brand name they will do the same thing.

“Oh but it will be different because the LAPD will own the data”

You think the LAPD isn’t going to share the data with the state and Feds? This is by very nature a police surveillance state.

Bottom line there was some optics and theater…but it didn’t go away. It’s just gonna get rebranded. As always happens. The program is itself unconstitutional and needs to just go away. Entirely in public places.