Texas detective suspended after using Flock cameras 165 times for personal searches
Polymarket · x · 2026-09-08
A Texas police detective has been suspended after records showed he used Flock license-plate camera searches 165 times for "personal concerns," unrelated to any investigation.
The case highlights the abuse risk of mass surveillance infrastructure — individual officers can tap public monitoring networks for private purposes with little external audit.
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