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Automated License Plate Readers (ALPRs) are AI-powered cameras that capture and analyze images of all passing vehicles, storing details like your car’s location, date, and time. They also capture your car’s make, model, color, and identifying features such as dents, roof racks, and bumper stickers, often turning these into searchable data points. These cameras collect data on millions of vehicles—regardless of whether the driver is suspected of a crime. While these systems can be useful for tracking stolen cars or wanted individuals, they are mostly used to track the movements of innocent people.

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Man arrested with truck full of Flock cameras in Albuquerque (www.kob.com)

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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Bernalillo County Sheriff’s deputies took a man into custody Wednesday after he showed up outside their headquarters with multiple Flock cameras in the back of his pickup truck.

Authorities arrested Jevon Martinez for damaging Flock cameras in Rio Rancho in May. Then, Wednesday, he posted video on social media appearing to show him driving around Albuquerque and taking down automated license plate readers once again.

In those videos, he comments that since the Bernalillo County Sheriff’s Office ended its contract with Flock last month, those cameras should no longer be out on the streets.

"Just for the record, I am not stealing these. I am not destroying them. I am simply returning them to the Bernalillo County Sheriff’s Department,” he said in one video.

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[–] bold_atlas@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

PSA: Just destroy them in place and leave them. Taking them with you can easily elevate charges to a felony theft/possession. Plus it gives the police and flock contractors more shit to haul off.

[–] Headofthebored@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

After some thinking, one of those handheld propane or map gas torches strapped to a long stick would probably, be the cheapest, quietest way to get rid of probably any pole camera. Not even a bulletproof metal one would stand up to even a few minutes of a torch. I would target only the lens area though. There is a lithium battery in them and overheating it would likely cause it to explode, drawing attention, and possibly shrapnel.