Footage Shows Cop Stalking Woman After Surveilling Her with a LPR

https://www.404media.co/footage-shows-cop-stalking-woman-he-met-on-a-tv-set-after-surveilling-her-with-a-license-plate-reader/

by Tasseographer • 16 days ago

114 42 16 days ago

404media.co

smalltorch2• 16 days ago

Hey, maybe we shouldn't build out this infrastructure so aggressively?

epoxia• 16 days ago

It's worth mentioning that the ALPR's in the Florida keys are unavoidable due to it basically being 1 road.

alexpotato2• 16 days ago

ALL car traffic in or out of Manhattan is subject to ALPR b/c all of the bridges and tunnels have ALPRs.

throwaway274484• 16 days ago

the cop illegally looked up her vehicle information on DAVID

It continually surprises me that these tools operate on basically trust. Why cops have direct access to these databases is baffling. I don't have much hope for florida to regulate its police but at least mandating providing a reason to use the database seems like a very reasonable thing to legislate.

doobiedowner• 16 days ago

Because republicans continue to fight each other over how much they can lick authority boot. Gone are the days of fiscal conservatives or small government… no sir they are all on board for locking this place down.

parineum3• 16 days ago

Because republicans continue to fight each other over how much they can lick authority boot

Because Americans think everything is a partisan issue, despite things like this happening under multiple federal administrations of differing parties and in States that are, effectively, single party of both major parties.

WillPostForFood2• 16 days ago

Like the evil Republicans running San Francisco!

https://www.sf.gov/news--san-franciscos-new-public-safety-ca...

mothballed4• 16 days ago

This guy only got punished because he wasn't enough of a bullshit artist to come up with an implausible but not-provably-false accusation against her, and he actually said the quiet part out loud about how this is used for tyrants. If he had just stuck to the story he overheard she was slinging crack or something he'd have likely gotten away with it with little more than side eyes and maybe some refresher class for appearances.

randycupertino2• 16 days ago

He was mad she didn't follow him back on instagram!

“When Deputy Roman approached she stated, ‘I knew it was you’ and asked, ‘does all my information pop up on your screen?’ and further inquired, ‘How did you know it was me?’ She stated Deputy Roman responded, ‘I told you I'd find you and pull you over.’ She stated Deputy Roman also stated, ‘And I was hoping your boyfriend was in the car so I can pull him out and give him a hard time.’ She stated she responded that she did not think that was a good idea,” the police report reads.
She said that Roman asked her why she didn’t follow him back on Instagram, that she needed to leave, and said she would follow him back on Instagram but didn’t want to text and drive. She told investigators that she “said this to get Deputy Roman to leave her alone.” She “advised Deputy Roman she was late to getting where she was going and repeatedly asked if she could leave. [She] stated Deputy Roman eventually told her she could leave.”

bluGill2• 16 days ago

If you require a reason that is bureaucracy which people complain about for good reason. Requiring a reason adds great cost and we would rather not pay it. We might be forced to because not everybody is honest, but it is much better if we can trust others and so not have to do this.

pavel_lishin• 16 days ago

which people complain about for good reason

But bureaucracy itself exists for a good reason. The hard part is finding a balance.

throwaway274484• 16 days ago

Who on earth is complaining about bureaucracy in the police station? Maybe the VA, maybe the DMV, maybe the fish and wildlife service, but who wants the men who run around with guns and shoot people to do so without any administrative oversight?

Edit: anyway, the "bureaucratic" overhead of providing a reason seems to be unlikely to impede police work if indeed there is a legitimate reason to access these databases.

FireBeyond2• 16 days ago

Beyond that.

Flock knows what inter-agency data sharing is legal and not legal in what states. So you think they'd have the functionality to disable forbidden data sharing when they sign a new agency in that state. They don't do that. "That's not our responsibility." And not only that, but:

Agency: Could we get training on how to do [forbidden data sharing]?

Flock: Absolutely. It's illegal in your state. Now that I've said that, here's how you do it in the app.

Cider9986• 16 days ago

That's mass surveillance for you.

samrus2• 16 days ago

Its a tradeoff between efficacy and accountability. Its tough. What access syrem would you propose? Genuinely asking

thomastjeffery• 16 days ago

How about accountability? How could that possibly be too much to ask?

belorn• 16 days ago

This seems fairly common in most countries, and I would guess the reason is for practical reasons. When police are out they have a fairly high probability to stumble onto more than just the specifics things they was sent out to do, and so they need to have access to check up people and vehicles.

What my country do (and others?) is to keep a strict records of every lookup, with different levels of auditor, some which checks every record in a shallow way and some which do random sampling with more deep checks. The punishment for misuse of the database is also fairly harsh.

beej71• 16 days ago

The penalties for police abusing the power we grant them should be severe.

iAMkenough• 16 days ago

Best we can do is a paid vacation and taxpayer-funded settlement, maybe transfer them to neighboring jurisdiction if they were real bad.

alexpotato2• 16 days ago

Apparently in the military, special forces in particular, this is even worse.

If you have a terrible soldier in a Tier 1 unit and you are trying to get rid of them via transfer to another unit, when asked why he is transferring you can just say "sorry, that's classified". The receiving unit then has no idea of the problems associated with that soldier.

GuestFAUniverse• 16 days ago

Doesn't make sense.

As a federal system administrator I face up to 5y prison, if I misuse my permissions. (And I do not carry a weapon.)

Why would any police force be so negligible if I comes to punishment of crimes in their own ranks?

ikidd• 16 days ago

Worked well enough for the Catholic church that the cops decided to adopt it.

randycupertino2• 16 days ago

HIPAA is pretty strict and hospitals will flag and fire you if you access unauthorized patients, the police should be subject to the same restrictions for accessing civilian info without cause. They would never police themselves, though.

smalltorch2• 16 days ago

I think it's intresting to read about the guy who made yolo. Take a look at his website and later, his thoughts about the monster he may have created.

https://x.com/pjreddie/status/1230524770350817280

https://pjreddie.com/darknet/yolo/

https://medium.com/@graham.wallington/the-evolution-of-yolo-...

M95D• 13 days ago

He should have patented it and restrict its use via IP laws. Won't prevent 3-letter agencies using it, but will prevent private companies like Flock.

xnx• 16 days ago

Rare good news story about a cop facing consequences (arrest). Was he fired as well? I couldn't tell from the article.

andrewl• 16 days ago

The linked article does not say what happened to him, but if you Google his name there are lots of hits. This one says he was fired:

https://www.nbcmiami.com/news/local/monroe-county-deputy-arr...

ojbyrne• 16 days ago

I immediately thought this was like something from a Carl Hiaasen novel, then read “He was tracking and chasing a woman that he met and harassed on the set of the AppleTV+ show Bad Monkey.” Bad Monkey is based on a Carl Hiaasen novel.

dabinat• 16 days ago

What an absolutely terrifying situation for that woman. It reminded me of a story from the UK where a police officer pulled over a woman, arrested her (for no reason) and raped and murdered her. I don’t know what you’re supposed to do in that situation because the law says you’re supposed to submit to police officers, not resist arrest, etc.

Footage Shows Cop Stalking Woman After Surveilling Her with a LPR

Related Stories