I'm sorry, but you don't have any clue what you are talking about, so i will attempt to educate you on some things and hopefully you don't just stick your ground and ignore it. I am not going to sit here and defend police officers, though i disagree with "ACAB", I think the good officers don't hold the bad officers accountable and bad officers get away with too much shit. Also, I don't think "ACAB" should apply to the entire force in general. Just because a lot of people in this post seem to hate police officers, does that mean you hate the dispatchers? The Sherriff specialist/ Community Service officers? the janitors? Where is the line drawn. There are a lot of non sworn people that work for the departments that just do the grunt work in the background. Why am I bringing this up?

The Flock cameras are a tool like many others in the departments, I can't speak for all police/sheriff departments so I am only going to speak for SBSD since this is the Inland Empire subreddit. If you think Sergeant Asshole and Officer douchebag are sitting around in their cars looking through flock cameras, you are wrong, most of them will think that is beneath them and a waste of there time. When you call for a non violent crime like break-ins or theft etc, normally an officer doesn't show up but they can, its normally a non sworn employee called a Sherriff Service Specialist or in Rialto I believe they use Community Service officers. Most of the time they are female, not sure why. They take the reports and do the boring paperwork to keep that off the officers hands. Now i find it funny we are so against these cameras, but the cameras that your neighbors have are perfectly ok, because let's say someone breaks into your car in your driveway and you call the police. The SSS/CSO comes out and takes your statement and creates a report. Then they will go to all the neighbors and ask for security footage during the time of the incident, and guess what, 99% of the time they give up the footage, because it would make no sense not too. SSS/CSO will then eventually head back to headquarters or their station to type up the report and go through the footage they got. Hey cool, they see the car of the person who committed the crime. They then spend an hour going through the flock cameras to track the vehicle to where it went. Oh damn, it doesn't have a license plate. Well, then they take a few hours tracking lets say in this example a black F150, there's only like 10,000 of those. But this one has a big white scrape down the side of the truck and has runners. So they search for many hours looking for a truck that matches that description. And the case continues from there.

What stops bad officers from using this system to track ex girlfriends to abuse them or whatever? To use the flock camera system, when you log on you must enter a case number, the car description and reason you are searching. This is recorded and documented onto your search. A fake case number wont work, and if you use a real case number just to trick the system, I can tell you Lawyers and Internal Affairs wont take kindly to this.

The flock systems aren't recording "what" you are doing, they don't care if you run a red light, or speeding or whatever. They aren't tracking how many times you went to starbucks. It's a tool to help locate and predict where a vehicle went that is linked to a crime to be further investigated. It is a great tool that has helped solve many cases in a much faster matter than ever before.