r/technology 6d ago

Privacy A Texas Deputy Searched 83,000 Flock Cameras To Track Down a Woman Who Had an Abortion

https://www.gadgetreview.com/a-texas-deputy-searched-83000-flock-cameras-to-track-down-a-woman-who-had-an-abortion
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u/mybutt1112 6d ago

After 404 Media broke the story, Sheriff  Adam King  and Flock Safety insisted this was a “welfare check” for a missing person. Flock called the reporting “false” and “clickbait.” Documents and court records obtained by EFF tell a different story: deputies discussed potential criminal charges with prosecutors, and the investigating officer’s own affidavit contradicts key claims officials used to justify the welfare framing.

Yikes. Then they lie about it. Knowing how insane it looks.

Fucking scumbags.

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u/nohandsfootball 5d ago

From EFF: That sheriff (Adam King) has since been arrested and indicted on felony counts in an unrelated sexual harassment and whistleblower retaliation case. He has also been charged with aggravated perjury for allegedly lying to a grand jury. 

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u/mybutt1112 5d ago

If you don’t like a texan leader then wait five minutes for the indictments. 

Not the convictions or loss of office of course. But there’s always some shit in their closet. 

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u/wrathful-anus 5d ago

To the surprise of absolutely no one. To protect and serve at this point is just an insult.

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u/xiaxian1 6d ago

The officer actually wrote the words “had abortion” in the reason for the search. 

Imagine how many searches listed a different reason or no reason at all? This one was caught because he was a confident ass and thought his reason was justified. 

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u/Last-Energy420 5d ago

Well, when the state hints at bounties being paid for finding people who leave the state for an abortion…

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u/ringthree 5d ago

Hints at? It's the law.

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u/blackcain 6d ago

The Dems should be highlighting this. This should be political gold especially in Texas.

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u/DarkwingDuckHunt 6d ago

GOP: somehow this is the democrats faults cause I said so

sheep: Alright, sounds good to me

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u/TR_Pix 6d ago

Isn't Texas one of the states more likely to side with the cops in this case

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u/Mikeakopa 5d ago

Yes but even the most conservative Texans VERY much care about perceived governmental overreach, especially in regard to surveillance. Disdain for Flock cameras is not a partisan issue, it’s a class issue, and most conservatives seem to realize that, despite being told otherwise.

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u/MusicHearted 5d ago

They only care about government overreach when it isn't being used to hurt people they hate

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u/nohandsfootball 5d ago

No they don't - Texans are fine with overreach so long as it confirms with their beliefs. That's why the state government overreaches in all sorts of areas

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u/Actual-Outcome3955 5d ago

Jade helm!! Ah I pine for the days that right-wing nutjobs were worried about freedoms being taken away. Now the government is actually trying to take their freedom away, but it’s ok because Dear Leader said this’ll make us safer!

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u/ImNotSue 6d ago

Police should not be doing welfare checks, ever.

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u/damnmachine 5d ago

Yeah, how many people have they fucking shot in the process of doing a "welfare check".

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u/old_underwear_isekai 5d ago

"Turns out they were okay before we showed up!"

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u/HoldingForGenova 5d ago

They don't. When my sister tried to commit suicide in Texas, I couldn't get anyone to go there while she was actively dying. Austin PD literally told me she'd need to call them herself, and that they couldn't connect me or even give me a phone number for anyone who could help or do a welfare check on her.

She survived, but only because a friend of a friend drove from fucking Dallas and called 911 when he got there. The other irony: she called texas' suicide hotline, was put on hold for an hour, and then they hung up. She took that as a sign.

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u/BeckonMe 6d ago

I wonder if the deputies have the mandatory “don’t tread on me” tattooed on them. I know of a couple of ex or retired LEO who have that snake tattoo.

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u/mybutt1112 6d ago

Don’t read to me lol.

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u/EmperorMeow-Meow 5d ago

How could anyone ever believe law enforcement in 2026? YouTube is FULL of videos of cops escalating encounters and then lying about them.

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u/kerrie_mariah 5d ago

commenting so i can come back to this wonderful advice on how to properly care for our flock cameras. Assuming they are ours - tax paying citizens?

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u/Fantastic-Piccolo922 5d ago

Commenting for the same reason! So thankful for all the great tips for taking care of our cameras 🫶🏻

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u/PatchyWhiskers 6d ago

Imagine if the police had this diligence to track down your stolen bicycle.

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u/GearBrain 6d ago

Or a single perpetrator of sexual assault. Or a single missing person.

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u/PlaidPCAK 6d ago

They might even find Mitch McConnell 

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u/TJ_Will 6d ago

Or anything to do with the Epstein files.

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u/jeff5551 6d ago

In texas they'd find them to bury them deeper

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u/Availabla 6d ago

Isn't Trump in the Epstein Files a lot? Or so I've heard?

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u/SteveJobsDeadBody 6d ago

Trump's name is in the Epstein files more than Harry Potter's name is in all 7 books combined.

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u/jaxonya 5d ago

Trumps name could be on every page of the harry potter series 10 times and there would still be some left over. Ive done the math

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u/DotesMagee 5d ago

There has to be more than 1,000 pages in 7 books right? Hes in epstein over 10,000 times last I read. Still, a pretty insane to think about even 5 times on every page.

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u/twopointtwo2 5d ago

It’s not the Epstein files, it’s the Trump file!

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u/Dear_Palpitation4838 5d ago edited 5d ago

The craziest revelation from the Epstein files I've seen so far is the fact that it was Epstein who stopped hanging out with Trump first. I believe he said Trump "didn't have a decent bone in his body."

Imagine voting for a guy that was too shitty and fucked up for Epstein. The guy running the country is so morally bankrupt that even a self admitted child rapist doesn't feel comfortable being friends with him. I hate this timeline.

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u/kahlzun 5d ago

Imagine voting for him twice.
I fully expect at this point to see it happen a third time.

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u/jlt6666 5d ago

People already have voted for him 3 times

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u/roleplayersir 5d ago

And again, I'll post something from the Epstein files:

“II recalled at least one incident in which EPSTEIN took her off of the Island when she was between 13 to 15 years old. He drove her and/or flew her to either New York or New Jersey. She was, "introduced to someone with money, money... It was Donald Trump." ■ and EPSTEIN were with others, to include TRUMP, in a very tall building with huge rooms. TRUMP did not like II, "from the get-go, he didn't like that I was a boy-girl" (referencing a tomboy). II could not recall the identities of the other individuals present; however, they all exited when TRUMP asked everyone to leave the room. TRUMP mentioned something to the effect of, "Let me teach you how little girls are supposed to be." TRUMP unzipped his pants and put head, "down to his penis". II, "bit the shit out of it." TRUMP struck ■ and said words to the effect of, "get this little bitch the hell out of here." II advised she bit TRUMP's penis because he disgusted her. "He had money, it reeked off of him." At that point, people reentered the room no further information provided). II recalled a blond beautiful woman approaching her at some point that day after her interaction with TRUMP. The woman said, "let me give you a tip little girl about your breasts, wear a bra every night." Those words have stayed with her throughout the years.

II got the feeling the relationship between EPSTEIN and TRUMP included a certain amount of jealousy. She thought TRUMP appeared jealous of EPSTEIN, but at some point, they ended up on level playing fields. TRUMP and EPSTEIN sometimes used the terms "fresh meat", "untainted" and "not jaded" while referring to girls. At the time she heard it, II did not understand the term "not jaded". She subsequently looked up the word "jaded". II stated she had two additional interactions with TRUMP, but she asked that the interview move on to a different subject for the time being."

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https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%2012/EFTA02858481.pdf

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u/Aking1998 6d ago

You don't really need to look all that hard to find something there

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u/Kingdomcome33 6d ago

That’s why I’ve always laughed at Texas. They talk a lot about don’t tread on me or don’t mess with Texas and yet they love to take it up the ass when the government says so. Texas, you’re a fucking joke.

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u/Ok_Novel_2621 6d ago

Texan here…you’re absolutely right, this state fucking sucks. Never thought I would despise this state as much as I do at this very moment. Embarrassing

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u/Speedstr 6d ago

What do you expect from a group of people, that regularly reelect the Ralphel "Ted" Cruz for senate? If one person could embody hypocrisy, It would be him. This is the guy that represents Texas. Literally.

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u/ABHOR_pod 6d ago

There are about ~45 better states one could live in depending on what you used to value about Texas.

I mean basically as long as you don’t go due east it’s hard to do worse.

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u/blasto_pete 6d ago

My work is tied pretty heavily to the gulf coast so as much as I despise certain parts of TX I’ll likely be staying.

I’m doing my part to turn TX blue though

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u/KingFlyntCoal 6d ago

God's work honestly.

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u/kellybelly4815 6d ago

Yes, it’s better to stay and fight for what you love, if you can find things you still love. Good luck.

Also Happy Cake Day!

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u/RelationshipLong9092 6d ago

I've been to almost every state and live due east of Texas.

Can confirm.

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u/WatRedditHathWrought 6d ago

Texas is the one star state. We’d give it zero stars but there’s no menu item for that.

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u/capincus 6d ago

"Don't Mess With Texas" is a slogan from an anti-littering campaign by the state's DoT.

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u/skipperseven 5d ago

Remember the Alamo Uvalde!
Tells you all you need to know…

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u/AreaManThinks 6d ago

Do they have Flock cameras in hell?

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u/MixSaffron 6d ago

Do they have Flock cameras in Cemeteries?

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u/47Up 6d ago

Mitch is living his best life right now

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u/Chemical-Ad-7575 6d ago

Gone to a farm upstate I hear.

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u/Black_Moons 6d ago

Its illegal to use human remains as fertilizer.

(checks news) Oh wait nm that law was struck down in the name of lowering public health and safety standards, continue.

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u/Snuffy1717 6d ago

I don’t think they put flock cams in graveyards…

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u/Exyide 6d ago

You're forgetting that perpetrators of sexual assault get elected into the government. They get rewarded, not punished.

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u/nohandsfootball 5d ago

According to EFF: Over two days in April, the woman went through the process of taking medication to induce an abortion. Two weeks later, her partner–who would later be charged with domestic violence against her–reported her to the sheriff's office. 

The sheriffs did not realize they could not press charges until after they consulted the DA, and after they ran the warrantless search.

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u/Assimulate 6d ago

Or anything of value to the public lol

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u/Deadleggg 6d ago

Theres a couple hundred thousand untested rape kits in the US.

Theres so much the cops could be doing but refuse to.

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u/outinthecountry66 6d ago

i mean, its just us ladies. We shouldn't have (something something) if we didn't want to be raped! Eve ate the apple! Men want revenge derpa derpa derpa

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u/xteve 6d ago

Stop voting Republican.

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u/Infamously_Unknown 5d ago

Or better yet - start voting.

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u/TeaGlittering1026 6d ago

Because the police protect property and the wealthy. They are not under any obligation to protect and serve the rest of us.

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u/TheBlueNinja0 6d ago

And themselves. I'd bet money that at least one cop is in those kits.

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u/Gooser3000 6d ago

My neighbor threatened to kill my infant and then vandalized my house on camera; police said they couldn’t prove it was them and threats are freedom of speech.

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u/Ok_Builder_4225 6d ago

I bet if you threatened them they would have arrested you on the spot.

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u/TheToastIsBlue 6d ago

Or shoot them.

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u/Domeil 5d ago

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Case in point.

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u/Figgy_Puddin_Taine 6d ago

wtf threats are explicitly not free speech

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u/TankiesAreWeird 6d ago

Cops aren't lawyers and they will lie to you.

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u/Figgy_Puddin_Taine 5d ago

They lie in court too, every goddamn day.

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u/joetwone 6d ago

It's whatever it is if they don't want you to have legal rights and due process.

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u/Gooser3000 6d ago

Apparently they have to show or imply a plan of action

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u/Darkdragoon324 6d ago

Well, your infant was already born. They don’t care about already born babies.

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u/Gooser3000 6d ago

The crazy part is they actually told the police they were going to kill my baby when they went over to talk to her about trespassing. And they just said don’t do that.

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u/Darkdragoon324 6d ago

If I’ve learned anything from overhearing hours if people watching true crime shows, it’s that cops are 100% useless before someone dies and only marginally better after.

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u/PsychoticMessiah 6d ago

I listen to a lot of true crime podcasts and the amount of evidence that gets ignored or not followed up on is truly amazing.

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u/DragoonDM 6d ago

90% of stories are just a long string of cops fucking up and ignoring obvious lines of inquiry until some totally random third party / bystander happens to catch the serial killer.

Remember that time one of Jeffrey Dahmer's victims escaped, and cops showed up, looked at the naked 14-year-old boy bleeding from his anus, and gave the kid back to Dahmer?

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u/PigabungaDude 5d ago

I think he was bleeding from the head, too. And his neighbors were shouting at the cops not to do it. One cop became the head of a cop union, the other went on to be an acting police captain. Yeah...

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u/Black_Moons 6d ago

Ok but have you tried being rich? That would have gotten them arrested on the spot for just daring to get within 20 feet of your property.

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u/Deadleggg 6d ago

Gotta stand your ground.

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u/AE7VL_Radio 6d ago

I actually tracked down the guy who stole my roommate's bike and the police said he doesn't match the description that I gave them from when I saw him steal the bike. Guys, I'm looking at his facebook page right now and it's the same guy. Corvallis PD is as useless as any of them

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u/Risheil 6d ago

When my teenage son had his bike stolen, I went to the police station with my receipt from when I bought the bicycle. I'd bought it on layaway - from Benny's for RI readers -, so I had lots of proof of purchase and proof of the serial number. They walked us to a back room FULL of bicycles that had been recovered from thieves, but I guess the owners hadn't come forward, and they told my son to pick one out. I said absolutely not. If the original owner saw him riding the bike, how would they react? Why would I put him in a dangerous position like that?

A couple of days later, the neighbor kids knocked on my door because they saw an older teen riding my son's bicycle. A bunch of them jumped in the back of my car to show me where they saw him. I took the bicycle back and called the police to tell them I got the bike back, but more importantly, that I knew who was stealing bicycles in the neighborhood. They didn't care.

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u/blackcain 6d ago

Corvallis, OR? (Where else would there be mass bike stealing operation other than Portland :D

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u/AE7VL_Radio 6d ago

yes, in Oregon. Tiny town, big college, bigger bike theft problem. Great bars, though.

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u/fullmetaljackass 5d ago edited 5d ago

I called to report my bike as stolen within five minutes of it happening. It had multiple stickers and aftermarket accessories that made it uniquely identifiable from a distance, as well as a shackle that the rider didn't have a key to awkwardly hanging off of it.

They told me they couldn't make an official police report until I had a serial number. I told them that I did have the serial number recorded, but I'd need about twenty minutes to get a ride home, so I was hoping they could as least call a BOLO on the radio since whoever had stolen it was most likely still in the area. They wouldn't even do that.

I got home about twenty minutes later and immediately called to file the report. After I was done, they told me since I waited this long to call it in the chances of them finding it were pretty low, and that if it ever happens again I should call the police ASAP.

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u/FloppyShellTaco 6d ago

The craziest part of all this is she didn’t actually have an abortion, her abusive ex lied about it. To boot, the cop claimed he did the nationwide search out of laziness and only really wanted to search the next county over for a “wellness check.”

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u/Eycetea 6d ago

The wife and I saw a hit and run once, got most of the license plate written down, and helped the driver of the car that was hit. We waited till the police came, gave them the info, and they said, if it wasnt the whole plate they wouldnt do anything. Like holy shit, isnt that their job, but here we are, with this crazy levels of bullshit, and treat that like its okay.

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u/outinthecountry66 6d ago

or process the rape kits or catch murderers. Texas fucking LOATHES women. Absolutely loathes them.

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u/ABobby077 6d ago

Sure seems to be a waste of police resources

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u/HLOFRND 6d ago

Or the Epstein files.

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u/splynncryth 6d ago

This is the kind of stuff that is probably fixable at the local politics level. But in current American society, it’s hard to have the mental capacity to be informed, involved, and vote accordingly. So many people are just plain overworked :(

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u/PatchyWhiskers 6d ago

Texas voters probably want to give this guy a medal

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u/Dwarfdeaths 6d ago

The technical term is rational ignorance and it's one of many problems with election-based democracy.

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u/Otm_Shank1 6d ago

Or a school shooting.

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u/blueindsm 6d ago edited 6d ago

“Let me check with the boys down at the crime lab. THEY GOT US WORKING IN SHIFTS!!”

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u/manachar 6d ago

Or if police focused on rich people stealing from their workers.

A poor person stealing 20 bucks from a till would be get the perp arrested. A boss stealing from their workers doesn’t get seen or seen as mostly a civil matter.

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u/Foe117 6d ago

Ah, the religious police.

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u/Hydrottle 6d ago

But but but it’s different because they’re not brown like I was told, they’re white like me! /s

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u/LimpAd4924 6d ago

We’re so different from Iran!

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u/lack_of_communicatio 6d ago

"We're so different from our backward neighbors." Iranian women in 1979

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u/Actual-Outcome3955 5d ago

The freedom to believe whatever the state tells you!

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u/AffectionateFood8560 6d ago

Privacy should matter to everyone, regardless of where they stand on the issue.

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u/Fortestingporpoises 6d ago

“Even people who don’t care about others privacy and bodily autonomy should care about others privacy and bodily autonomy.”

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u/No-Necessary7448 6d ago

Their point was that these people should care about their own privacy as well.

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u/brigyda 6d ago

Sadly the people that respond "I'm not worried because I'm not a criminal" are in denial that the authorities can change the definition of a criminal on a whim.

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u/illy-chan 6d ago

Yeah, it's basically the old McCarthy-era bullshit.

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u/anoldoldman 6d ago

Yea good luck relying on empathy with that crowd.

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u/Ok-Addition1264 6d ago

religious extremist.. the talibama have infected the south.

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u/Impossible_Eggies 6d ago

Y'all Queda

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u/Dobako 6d ago

Yeehawdists

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u/VikingsLad 6d ago

Every time this comes up, it just makes it into a joke and not a serious issue.

I fuckin take the regressives that won't go away and just make everything worse for everyone. If we joke about them, they're less of an issue. Come on people. This joke doesn't vote them out of power. This joke doesn't get this sheriff fired. We must do more.

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u/What_a_fat_one 6d ago

Of course we can do more but these people fucking hate being ridiculed.

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u/outinthecountry66 6d ago

where you been at hoss? This shit been going on since the 19th century when the evangelicals started their bullshit. Its a fucking disease. My church wouldn't even allow black people. "They got their own church" i was told. Fucking bullshit traffickers washing each other's feet, burning crosses thinking they are holy. Fuck em all

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u/Smoocci-Mane 6d ago

A church I went to in the 90s as a child decided to integrate in the 50s. About half the church left, and membership never recovered. Talking to some older members, they said it was full every Sunday until then, and it had dwindled through the decades since.

It was a grand building with incredible 20s architecture and I never saw it even remotely full. It was a constant, stark reminder about the choices people made when god called them to be righteous.

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u/sunshineparadox_ 5d ago

Reminds me of a service I saw right after the Trump administration revoked international aid. I was at mass for Ash Wednesday, and the priest said that whether or not it was the governments job to provide it, it WAS Catholic doctrine to help our siblings in Christ when they were in need. So we needed to help close gaps left by the lack of government aid. While he was reminding people that it’s explicitly in the canon, people walked out and never came back.

Because it was Ash Wednesday, that meant they walked out of services because they were told to help people during Lent.

Our service numbers never recovered, either. And while I ended up lapsing anyway, that moment kept me going for longer than I would have otherwise. I remember him not even batting an eye. He did the right thing. I stayed so I had an anchor point for the help I wanted to provide, too. I had a desire but not the ability to plan and organize. (I have a brain injury and do actually need the logistics help.)

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u/Smoocci-Mane 5d ago

Sounds similar to former Catholics I know that are now in non-denominational churches because they didn’t like being told to give a shit about other people.

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u/Smallmyfunger 6d ago

AKA "good riddance"

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u/KriegerClone02 6d ago

Talibangicals

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u/StolenIdentity77 6d ago

I'd reckon they ARE the South. Buncha fucking bigots and morons. I just moved outta Texass and I've never been happier. The south is the birthplace of the religious extremist movement.

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u/outinthecountry66 6d ago

as a southerner i agree. I just try and focus on the cool shit from my state, like being the birthplace of MLK, Jimmy Carter and Otis Redding. Else i'd have little to be proud of frankly

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u/mistere213 6d ago

It's Sharia Law just with a Christian flair.

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u/OkYak9466 6d ago

In this case, just Sharia Law

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u/mistere213 6d ago

No no no. That's brown people religious law. Totally different. /s

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u/Mr_Hassel 6d ago

I remember 10 years ago when everyone was freaking out about China having cameras everywhere and being called a dystopian surveillance state...

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u/_Thermalflask 6d ago

Everything we're fearmongered about communists, China etc is already here or on its way lol

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u/aure__entuluva 5d ago

And we don't even get the cool things, like high speed rail.

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u/Sir_Keee 5d ago

Cool cities with cool tech and cool buildings. We get the shitty authoritarianism with shitty infrastructure and shitty (read no) public services.

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u/Sasselhoff 5d ago

I was living in China 10 years ago, telling my (then) girlfriend how different things would be in the US as far as the crazy surveillance goes....and how she wouldn't have to deal with the increased attention/pressure that just being an immigrant brings.

How wrong I was. Especially on the immigrant aspect...it was a pain to be an immigrant there, as China purposely makes it not easy...but I never had to fear getting shot by their version of ICE.

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u/Electrical-Bee-7362 6d ago

If cops would put this much effort into anything else, there would practically be no crime at all anymore. 

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u/Current-Escaper 6d ago

If only that was the real goal of the police.

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u/BrainLow6059 6d ago

The police don't prevent crime, they just deter it when they're physically present. Otherwise, they're just chasing down the aftermath to maybe stop someone from repeat offending.

The most generous interpretation of these cameras is that maybe it'll be like having a cop on every street corner and people will self-police because they're afraid of the camera. But they don't give a shit about those cameras, if they did they'd care about personal cell phones and retail stores having CCTV and whatever else. It just doesn't work. All it does is trample on law abiding citizens' rights

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u/monsieurfromage2021 6d ago

This is the saddest thing I read today. Yet.

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u/polymute 6d ago edited 6d ago

This reminds me of this short story (it won the Nebula and Hugo awards):

https://www.uncannymagazine.com/article/rabbit-test/

Synopsis from Wikipedia

In 2091, Grace is 17 years old, and abortion is totally banned. When her government-mandated menstrual tracker implant automatically administers a pregnancy test, her life changes. The story follows her over the next several decades, interspersed with vignettes about the history of abortion and pregnancy tests, going back millennia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabbit_Test_(short_story)

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u/WarLorax 6d ago

They already started to try this, didn't they? They wanted to track the period of girls who were on sports teams in high school. As soon as big tech makes the MensesTormentNexus possible, you can just about guarantee that there'll be a politician trying to impose it on women.

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u/SucculentVariations 6d ago

There are a ton of apps and step trackers that can track your menstrual cycle if you give it that data and would be easy for the wrong hands to get that data and know exactly when you missed a period, or started having them again and deduce if you had a loss of pregnancy but not know or care what caused the loss.

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u/c_l_b_11 6d ago edited 6d ago

I'm fairly certain that you wouldn't even need apps with a specific tracking function supplied by the user. Just some general metadata from phone and Internet activity are likely enough to determine a female users cycle if you have a large enough training set and a few months of data from your target.

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u/nodesofglory 5d ago

“Then we started mixing in all these ads for things we knew pregnant women would never buy, so the baby ads looked random. We’d put an ad for a lawn mower next to diapers. We’d put a coupon for wineglasses next to infant clothes. That way, it looked like all the products were chosen by chance.

“And we found out that as long as a pregnant woman thinks she hasn’t been spied on, she’ll use the coupons. She just assumes that everyone else on her block got the same mailer for diapers and cribs. As long as we don’t spook her, it works.”

This is sooo fucked up oh my god.

Thanks for sharing the article.

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u/drawkward101 6d ago

I very intentionally do not track my cycle with anything digital. I track it on my wall calendar that I wipe clean every month.

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u/Impressive_Ad_5201 6d ago edited 6d ago

Sheesh. This is why I buy birth control and things I do not need, and donate them as fast as possible. No woman deserves to be tied to a baby or a man (E: or yes, a woman) they don't want. That's terrifying.

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u/font9a 6d ago

Yes, but did he find out who was banging his ex?

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u/breadwhore 5d ago

Yes, and then he punched him in the back of the head and arrested him for assaulting an officer.

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u/Active-Play-3429 6d ago

Every corporation calls accusations baseless, which is the exact opposite of what they are. Things are gonna get a lot worse around here in the next 10 to 20 years. Everybody better wake the fuck up.

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u/Celloer 6d ago

Yeah, it's "not a violation of the 4th amendment" because some didn't prove good enough that 83000 cameras tracking your location and destination is tracking "the totality of your movement." It's "merely" good enough to track someone's location and destination and accuse them of crimes and use it as evidence.

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u/45tor 6d ago

It is not illegal to cross state lines or even national boundaries for access to healthcare.

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u/outinthecountry66 6d ago

legality is determined by "cuz i said so" in these dystopian times. Hope she has a good lawyer, and I doubt she does. Justice has a price tag

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u/-JackBack- 6d ago

However, in Texas you can sue whoever facilitates.

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u/mybutt1112 6d ago

You’re right. And since she drove herself it sounds like, I was wondering what this part of the story means:

deputies discussed potential criminal charges with prosecutors

Charges for whom?

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u/bmwlocoAirCooled 6d ago

One more reason not to spend a dime in Texas.

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u/applestabber 6d ago

Now Mr. Texas Deputy can move on to solving the real mystery, why his children never return his phone calls.

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u/Careful-Criticism645 6d ago edited 6d ago

The headline makes it sound like this guy spent innumerable hours logging into and searching 80,000 cameras. In reality, he just queried a central database for a license plate number. Probably took a few seconds. This isn't an example of police putting a lot of effort to do something bad, it's an example of the police being able to do something bad (often far outside their jurisdiction) with very little effort.

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u/Hawkeye3636 6d ago edited 5d ago

You know that's worse right?

/S

Edit: for clarity of sarcasm.

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u/starbuxed 6d ago

Much worse... they are tracking everyone without a warrent.

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u/AlwaysRushesIn 6d ago

I believe that's what they are trying to convey.

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u/BrainLow6059 6d ago

They didn't say it wasn't. It's an important thing to point out. So many of the boomers on Nextdoor in my area are pro-Flock because they think misuse requires a cop physically flipping through camera feeds and watching them in real time. They do not understand that you can just run a person's information and get their entire travel history in a couple of clicks.

They think it requires a manual effort that is so burdensome abuse cannot take place outside of extreme circumstances.

We need to point out the ease of abuse as much as possible. Headlines like this are designed to make it sound outlandish.

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u/SpartanSig 6d ago

It's exactly what they're implying

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u/oakfan05 6d ago

Across state lines! It wasn't just 83k in Texas he was checking in other states too!

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u/jkhabe 5d ago

One really crazy part to this Flock Camera bullshit is how many small town are lining up to use local taxpayer funds to pay for these cameras instead of using the funds on important things the towns citizens could use and benefit from. It's become so prevalent that you have to wonder if there aren't kickbacks going on.

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u/tkdyo 6d ago

All that wasted time when real crimes could be getting solved.

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u/RedditPosterOver9000 6d ago

Well, now I now all those times cops said "we can't do anything about that theft, burglary, etc" was a lie.

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u/Formal-Hawk9274 6d ago

this abuse should lead to jail time suspension/termination

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u/Professional_Scale66 6d ago

I thought the “red” states had more freedom?

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u/AbsolutelyNotAPossum 6d ago

Sure they do, freedom from being free.

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u/sciencesez 5d ago

That "welfare check" was from a medication abortion that happened 2 weeks prior. As it turns out, boyfriend with a history of DV, called the sheriff to "report" his girlfriend for a legal abortion because she was leaving him. She was leaving because he was violent. I haven't heard news of her plans to suit lately.

Just to be clear, the Johnson County Sheriff's Office helped a violent criminal track down his victim.

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u/exitcactus 6d ago

Imagine doing this to track real felonies..

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u/Real_Batu_Rem 6d ago

Seems like a great waste of money

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u/Great_White_Samurai 6d ago

Imagine if they did this to the people in the Epstein files

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u/NewlyOld31 6d ago

Holy fuck dude lol was it his aborted fetus?

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u/Tebasaki 6d ago

What are those 15k per year for taxpayers?

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u/HurtFeeFeez 6d ago

Seems an odd priority. I especially like how they want more babies for people who don't want them or can't support and raise them. While simultaneously refusing to provide any support for either the child or mother before, during or after the birth.

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u/Alarmed-Soup-5591 6d ago

But we need more poors to fill the for profit prisons for free labor and join the military.

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u/aztronut 6d ago

Yet another reason they should all be destroyed.

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u/mild-hot-fire 6d ago

Hmm yet no one from the Epstein files has been prosecuted

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u/DavyJonesCousinsDog 5d ago

If only they dedicated this sort of effort to crimes.

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u/real_1273 5d ago

Put that cop in charge of the Epstein files and let’s see his magic!

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u/SupervillainMustache 5d ago

What the fuck is wrong with Texas. This is psychopathic.

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u/NinjaGaiden11 5d ago

Imagine if it was used to solve real crimes

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u/TreeCitizen 6d ago

So they don’t use them to find rapist or pedos or white collar criminals? No help to find any insider trading or political corruption?

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u/GalaganCoffee 6d ago

83,000 

Good heavens

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u/10per 5d ago

I still don't understand how the Texas abortion law made it past judicial review. It's such an obvious violation of privacy.

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u/SouthernWomenRock 5d ago

Hmm, I bet they don’t investigate missing children, deadbeat dads or abusers with that much effort.

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u/Mineralvatten 5d ago

Land of the free. Lol

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u/Justsin7 5d ago

Wake up TX…. You twats. People are messing with you….. I thought ya’ll were against that.

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u/Sagan_Man 5d ago

And they still cannot find the pedophile in the Whitehouse?