CrimeRadar False Alert Exposes Speed-Accuracy Tradeoff
The Lawrence County incident shows how CrimeRadar's speed promise backfired when it misread routine dispatch shorthand as a shooting, triggering a...

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The Lawrence County incident shows how CrimeRadar's speed promise backfired when it misread routine dispatch shorthand as a shooting, triggering a...
Flock ALPR cameras misread plates in 71% of alerts for stolen or felony vehicles sent to Roseville PD over two years, producing widespread false...
Roseville's police analysis exposed Flock Safety's ALPR as fundamentally unreliable.
A growing wave of California cities and counties are terminating Flock ALPR contracts, reflecting rising public resistance to surveillance cameras....
Unstar.app released a new sentiment and rating trend analysis for Police Scanner: Crime Radar on the App Store, extracting key review themes and words.
Chico PD's internal investigation into ALPR data shared with 20 federal agencies signals rising local accountability for surveillance practices. The audit examines MOUs that appear to violate state law despite restrictions to criminal use.
Chico city leaders are reviewing whether police improperly shared ALPR data with ICE, Border Patrol and out-of-state agencies, potentially violating...
Columbus police updated its transparency portal with a new Flock section detailing camera activity, search counts, retention policies, and agency...
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Flock Safety photographs vehicles 20 billion times monthly across 49 states via 100,000+ ALPRs , feeding a searchable cloud database leased as a $300...
Federal agencies violated court limits by sharing millions of Medicaid records with Palantir, including data on legally present individuals and a...
ICE routed improperly shared Medicaid data on millions to Palantir instead of deleting it as ordered, exposing systemic risks in government data handling that threaten the privacy and integrity of upstream feeds for tools like CrimeRadar.
Flock's ALPR and surveillance data flows into AWS GovCloud servers in Virginia and Ohio that demand SCI clearance, polygraph tests, and U.S....
Oakley Police illegally shared license plate reader data with border control and another federal agency due to an incomplete 2024 audit that missed...
Enid PD is moving to full encryption specifically because of CrimeRadar, extending the pattern of police departments blocking scanner feeds that apps...
ALPR systems in Park City and Summit County feed local plate data into national networks accessible to ICE and 4,000 agencies, with no public vote or...
Waco police publicly cautioned residents about CrimeRadar after the app falsely reported an officer shooting from a routine training exercise, forcing...
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