There are people who comment on this site that Flock cameras are simply filming you in a public place, and they don’t have a problem with it. OK, so then why do cops have a problem with you filming them in a public place, to the point where they will approach you with a threat of arrest while off duty?
If cameras aren’t a threat, then why are these cops taking action?
Again, cameras aren’t the issue. A person filming me isn’t a threat to me, as long as he is doing it in public. What’s the issue is what is being done with that footage. Are government officials building a database? That’s an issue.
Is the guy filming the cops just posting the videos online? Not an issue.
Is the guy filming using that footage to threaten or harm cops or anyone else? Then it is an issue, but you have to have more evidence to arrest or even detain than “guy is filming.” That’s why the standard is “reasonable articulable suspicion.”
Discuss
6 Comments
Barefoot Pexkerwood · July 19, 2026 at 3:57 pm
Straight, personal filming, not an issue. But these various typws.of.”ALPR” cameras, aren’t just cameras. They are a info vacuum. They track/link any.wifi, bluetooth device.
These platforms store this info.and it gets abused. If uou see one in the wild, cut.it down
Delta3Two · July 20, 2026 at 4:28 am
Agreed.
ghostsniper · July 19, 2026 at 4:38 pm
The most dangerous person on the planet is the jackboot on the street for s/he has the capacity to immediately cage or kill you with impunity. gov’t thugs
Steve S6 · July 19, 2026 at 6:18 pm
Everything you need to know in the word “abuse”. Google said they didn’t look at the pictures you stored on their cloud taken with their Android phones. Then suddenly you could see all your pictures with a specific person in them. Same story.
oldvet50 · July 19, 2026 at 7:19 pm
From what I could understand on the video, the guy filming was in the police parking lot. With the level of hatred of police nowadays, I don’t blame them for wanting to know who the guy is. But then again, its NY, so I don’t really care.
Joe Blow · July 20, 2026 at 5:52 am
“Are government officials building a database?”
Brother, I’ll assume that’s a rhetorical question, because I think you’re pretty smart and can grok the answer to that one.