Wrong-way driver charged with DUI
The short version: NBC 10 WJAR covers a DUI wrong-way crash where police credit a Flock camera, reigniting the same one-win-justifies-everything debate we see nationwide.
Our Take
Credit to NBC 10 WJAR for actually airing both halves of this story: a DUI arrest and the inevitable "see, Flock works" argument from local police. This is the standard playbook we track constantly on DeFlock — a single case where a camera network allegedly helped, used to wave away every question about how many plates get scanned, stored, and cross-referenced for people who were never suspected of anything.
One successful catch doesn't tell you what happens to the other 99.9% of drivers swept into the same database, who gets access to it, how long it's retained, or whether it's shared with agencies outside Rhode Island. Flock's own transparency portals rarely answer those questions, and local councils approving these contracts almost never ask them before voting yes.
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This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of NBC 10 WJAR, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.