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A released audit of Flock camera searches in North Carolina revealed officers used racial descriptions to search for suspects, with every searching agency redacted. The data shows how license plate readers can enable biased policing.
A released audit of Flock license plate reader camera searches in North Carolina revealed officers used racial descriptions to search for suspects, with every searching agency redacted from the public record. The data documents how officers searched the system in racially specific ways.
License plate readers are marketed as neutral technology, but they're only as objective as the person using them. When an officer describes a suspect as a particular race and then searches the database for plates associated with that description, they're using the tool to encode bias. The fact that all agencies are redacted means the public can't see which departments did this most, making it impossible to hold specific agencies accountable. This is how technology-enabled discrimination works: it's systematic, it leaves a trail, but the trail is hidden.
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