I could start a feed of stories about cops using Flock to stalk and terrorize current and former partners and I would never run out of material.

[emma@orbital.horse]

@evacide what's the mean time between these chuds getting caught and getting another policing job or cushy job with Flock or similar?

[itgrrl@infosec.exchange]

@evacide

such a familiar pattern…

– “investigation” details a long list of abuses, many of them crimes

– abuser gets to resign instead of being fired

– no criminal charges laid (lol, ’sif)

– abuser gets to tick the “I haven’t been fired before for misconduct” box at next job interview

rinse, repeat 🤬

#IAmSoTired  

[itgrrl@infosec.exchange]

@evacide oh, and the Institute for Justice is already maintaining a searchable database of ALPR abuses in the US, so you don’t need to

The IJ Database of #ALPR #Abuse

https://ij.org/the-ij-database-of-alpr-abuse/
 
 
 
#ALPRabuse  

[heathen_cat@furs.social]

@evacide
I think a single place to find all the news articles would be helpful for those of us fighting our city councils.

[nanowiz@wehavecookies.social]

@evacide

criminal tools

[csolisr@hub.azkware.net]

loveintisgoinggreat.com is currently unused #LOVEINT

[rtificial@defcon.social]

@evacide we need a mastodon bot that does this each time a new story breaks.

[ricardoharvin@mstdn.social]

@evacide

Not sure if I should go with "Surprise, Surprise, Surprise", or "Shocked! Shocked!"...

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[scott@carfree.city]

@evacide Here in San Francisco, we have not one, but two Flock lobbyists on the committee that controls local Democratic Party endorsements. And it's going about as you would expect:
https://missionlocal.org/2026/08/san-francisco-democratic-party-manny-yekutiel-endorsement/

[troy_frizzell@mstdn.social]

@evacide

The least shocking thing about this story is that this piece of shit was "Deputy of the Year" in Florida.

[enobacon@urbanists.social]

@scott "after two rounds of indecisive votes in a fraught meeting" sounds like using a shitty voting method.

[jimmyb@mas.to]

@evacide ‘oh but my cop partner isn’t like that’

Uh huh…

[scott@carfree.city]

@enobacon not really the chief problem here

[enobacon@urbanists.social]

@scott the people voting for this guy, are they the majority? If not, I would say yes the voting method is the problem. If so, maybe it's a participation issue that stems from the voting method. IDK the people voting for this guy, is there something that would make them not?

[enobacon@urbanists.social]

@scott or was this committee appointed / elected? If it's the whole "democratic party is a corporation" thing, yeah there's no cure for that.

[vurk@mastodon.social]

@enobacon @scott sounds like the @EUCouncil and @EUCommission when the vote doesn't go the way they want. Then they just keep redoing the process until it gives the result they want, like the scourge on democracy that was the most recent #chatControl vote. There is no shame in shameful behaviour anymore.