How rogue officers turned a nationwide camera network into a tool for stalking

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/08/02/how-police-officers-used-vast-network-cameras-spy-their-exes/?itid=hp-top-table-main_p001_f001

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isleepinahammock@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 23 pts · 25d (5 replies)

Police officers commit domestic violence at a rate 2.5x the rate of the general population. The profession attracts the type of person that wants to exercise power over others. Keep that in mind whenever anyone proposes giving these people access to new tools.

artyom@piefed.social · 4 pts · 25d (2 replies)

What better job for someone who loves wanton violence?

stringere@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 25d

Stop dumpling violence!

isleepinahammock@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 25d

Prison guard, probably.

I_Jedi@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 25d

Commonly known as Shitcurity.

TransNeko@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 25d

they also rape and murder kids at a much higher rate.

ZapBeebz_@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 25d

Blatant whitewashing by trying to claim its just "rogue officers". They're using the tech as intended. The tech needs to be shitcanned immediately

Blibly@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 25d

It already is a nationwide network for stalking. They just used it on a micro level.

4am@lemmy.zip · 8 pts · 25d

No, that’s the system working as designed and why it’s so important to oppose it

Corvidae@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 25d

That's the funniest headline I've read in some time. "Rogue" officers! LOL.