Flock license plate reader wrongly linked a San Diego man to a violent crime

The problem, says attorney Alex Coolman, was that Parra was five miles away from Golden Hill at the time of the crime, and the so-called hit from the license plate reader was captured before any police pursuit began.

“This Flock hit was obviously the wrong car, as it could not have been in both places simultaneously,” said Coolman, who represents Parra and the driver, 23-year-old Ariel Beltran.

Despite the signs pointing to it being a different Alfa Romeo, police arrested Beltran and Parra.

But it made some already rich people even more rich, and that’s what’s important here

Those license plate reader cameras would be upset if they could read

I hope he will make a fortune from any lawsuit against them.

Yay, the future is AI powered pre-crime and humanoid police bots killing suspects

Makes me wonder how many false positives and negatives this system has. If it were a diagnostic test, people would be talking about sensitivity and specificity. Same calculations apply here as well.

This sounds like police carelessness rather than a problem with the technology - they just decided to arrest the closest person the system could find who had the same rare car. The license plate reader did not malfunction.