The Shaky Evidence That Flock Cameras Reduce Crime Rates

The Shaky Evidence That Flock Cameras Reduce Crime Rates reason.com

Flock has been promoting a recent study of its cameras' impacts on car theft. But the paper didn't demonstrate a causal effect.

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FireBeyond10 days ago

The other issue is that for Flock's marketing purpose, if a Flock query was made in relation to a crime, and that crime was later resolved, Flock considers themselves to have "helped solve the crime", regardless of the relevance or lack thereof of the query itself.

AngryData10 days ago

Surveillance cameras never did shit for stopping crime, don't know why anybody thought Flock would be different.

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