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Our Take

Unfair AI lays out a case that should be familiar by now: police lean on a facial recognition match, treat a computer's guess as probable cause, and an innocent person ends up in handcuffs. We don't have every detail of this specific case, but the pattern is well documented across the country — algorithms trained on biased data, cops skipping the legwork of actual investigation, and courts left to sort out the mess after someone's life has already been upended.

This matters to us because facial recognition and automated license plate readers come from the same broken playbook: outsource judgment to a black-box system, then treat its output as ground truth. Flock Safety's ALPR network is built on that same logic, feeding law enforcement location data with little transparency and almost no independent audit of accuracy or misuse. When the underlying tech is wrong — or when it's right but the context is missing — real people pay the price, not the vendors selling the software.

Credit to Unfair AI for keeping these cases in public view instead of letting them get buried in police PR statements. If you want to see how this same surveillance infrastructure has spread into your own neighborhood, check our camera map, and if you're ready to push back, our take-action page has concrete next steps.