Among the recipients of the money: Cicero Town President Larry Dominick and Lake County Sheriff John Idleburg, both of whose government agencies use the technology from the Atlanta company.
Right now Flock Safety is a pariah in the US like AIPAC. Outing these transactions would benefit both rival campaigns and corruption-watch nonprofits.
Mass surveillance should be regarded as a crime agains the public, and a violation of protections by the fourth amendment to the Constitution of the United States.
Maybe such politicians should be pushed to publicly endorse making ALPR network database hits inadmissable in court. Get a public no.
Already we’re seeing police precincts warning officers to not admit they searched ALPR databases but to make another excuse. We’re already seeing the same shift to parallel reconstruction that we did with IMSI spoofer usage.
In a better world, ALPR database searches should only be allowed with a narrowly-constrained judicial warrant.
But IRL, law enforcement nationwide is notorious for abusing forensic tools to secure probable cause or even false convictions. So they shouldn’t be trusted with ALPRs at all.
They weren’t already doing that?
Flock should be designated a terrorist organization.
Who could have seen
political donationsbribery coming?It’s trickle down economics, where corruption starts at the top and find its way down to every layer of society. Prepare to give larger and larger “tips” to get anything done.
Local politicians being bought off for a couple thousand dollars. Fucking shameful. That’s not even a “oh you had to really persuade them” like a new car or something. It’s a good chunk of change but a thousand bucks will maybe get you a weekend vacation in Tuscon. But it was enough to sell our privacy down the well.
Politicians are notorious for being bought for very little: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abscam
They are cheap whores.
“Every man has his price.”
Why was yours a six pack and a roll of toilet paper?
Could you not resist such a pithy morsel from WeWillOwnYouMuahaha inc if only for your pride?Politicians with a sense of dignity haven’t been a thing for 30 years. Their social media posts don’t do it for the algorithm so no one ever hears about them.
Bribes. Just call them bribes.
Probably some extortion here and there where they find it possible, too. It definitely will turn into that as the surveillance authoritarian state advances.
“Kompromat” is the term we use in Germany for such material. Derives from the practise of eastern block autocracies and their secret services to blackmail foreign politicians into compliance by presenting them with video evidence of their pedophilia and other disgusting crime.
I mean, the ideal solution there would be electing fewer pedophiles, but Western civilization has always seemed to have an issue with ending up with the worst possible people in charge.
They’re only starting now?
“starts”
I’m pretty sure the article is written by AI…
The first contribution to the Cicero Voters Alliance (The Larry Dominick Team) was for $1,000, made in 2021, according to Illinois State Board of Elections records.
It’s started (in that specific place) five years ago.
I do not even want to read any thing on the Internet anymore, it is all just AI now
Grammatical errors are human signaling now.
Just wait until they figure out how to train on the likes of Reddit to get more human grammar in the output.
What makes it seem like that bit is written by AI?
You can tell it’s an AI article, because of the way it is…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_d8mjam7KG8
But the way the headline ignores information in the article, formatting images in the middle of a sentence, the words and tone usage.
Just a whole bunch of minor things that add up to “the way it is”.
Usually when researching my ballot I have a hard time getting enough info on the local politicians to feel like I’m making an informed decision. My sincere thanks to Flock for making it so much easier to identify who not to vote for.
Yeah it’s really easy to tell who to not vote for. You just see if they’ve ever gotten money from AIPAC or a major corporation and then you know.
Taxpayers pay for Flock cameras to be put up because our gov agencies are terrible. Flock then takes a portion of this money to bribe the gov to give them more money.
Sounds legit and totally normal. This is how the entire military industrial complex works. Nothing to see here.
/s
Well that’s not exactly helping their evil government surveillance company look at all. Sounds like they’re just leaning into it.
Track those taking the payoffs. We don’t need them representing themselves, we need them to represent their constituents. Once you know who they are, vote them out. Eventually those seeking to enter politics will have a more universally collective mindset rather then the “what’s in it for me” that is the current norm.
