Flock: "you can't get a breath of air without us knowing"

There was a woman who was driving to an appointment with her tailor in Colorado about a month ago. And as she's on the way to her tailor, there was a theft that took place at an unrelated person's house. She had a doorbell camera, which meant they would have been able to see who did it, right? Makes it easy. She would be able to catch him. No. The police chose to have Chat GPT on a telephone pole do the work for them. They looked through and they saw that a Flock camera captured the license plate of somebody in a green Rivian, which is the person who entered the tailor. They went to her door with a summons. And the police officer said the following. With a zero doubt. I wouldn't have come here unless I was 100% sure. When the woman asked to be able to see the footage that demonstrates that she is guilty, they would not play her the footage. I'm not going to extend you any courtesy of showing you a video when I don't need to. But I can show you videos of cannot. She says that she can show the officer a video footage demonstrating that she was not there at the place and time that they claim that she was there, and he interrupts her to say, "No, you cannot. You are not allowed to prove your innocence." No. And he actually said this afterwards. You know we have cameras in that town and you can't get a breath of fresh air in or out of that place without us knowing, correct? If you want people to move to your area and pay into the tax base that pays the police, you might not want to say out loud, and I quote, "You can't breathe in this town without being surveilled because that just that's just not the flex that you think it is." If the sheriff comes to my door, and I am far from an ACAB anti-police type of person, and said, "You can't breathe in this town without us seeing it." I'm the [ __ ] out of there. Like my house is going on Zillow the next day. He refuses to show the doorbell footage. And he issues a summons with December 8th. She's actually pretty smart. She goes about this as well as she can, and she creates a Google timeline showing all of her movements, the CCTV video of her entering and leaving. She shows all the footage from her dash cam which shows that she was driving while this took place, the GPS records from her vehicle that show that she was not at the scene of the crime when the crime took place, the photo of the outfit that she wore that day, which is different from the outfit of the person who was captured in the doorbell camera, and witness statements that demonstrate that she was somewhere else when this occurred. She did not submit this to the sergeant who visited her. She submitted this to the police chief who then immediately dismissed everything. Charges dismissed. Summons avoided. There was no explanation provided. There was no apology provided. They had Chat GPT on a telephone pole try to do their job for them. And if this woman did not keep track of everything she did that day, then she might have actually been screwed. What that police officer said when he said there's a 100% chance, no doubt. What he's actually saying is we are filming you, and what you need to do is you need to film yourself all the time in case we get something wrong. So, he's kind of shifted the burden of proof from innocent until proven guilty to guilty unless you record every movement you make throughout the day to rebut ours in case we get it wrong as we're recording all of your movements throughout the day. The answer to a surveillance state being installed without your consent in your city, or your state, or your country is not to start surveilling yourself all the time. While I appreciate that this woman had all this information on herself, she had her GPS coordinates, she had her Google timeline, she had all this information all and I How many people take pictures that are time stamped with their clothing every single day just in case they're going to be accused of a robbery that they did not commit? The answer is not to record what you do every single day to the point where we are now spying and surveilling ourselves in order to be able to respond to this. The answer is to not have the surveillance apparatus to begin with. Many of you have been going to your city council hearings. You've been emailing your representatives. And you've been telling them that you do not wish to pay to live in a authoritarian Chinese-style police state where you're being watched every given moment by an AI surveillance camera that can be accessed at the click of a button without a warrant by any Tom, Dick, or Harry in city government. You don't want that. You think it's a bad thing. And you tried to make your voice heard. And as you could see in Denver, your voice was ignored. Unfortunately, across the country, your voices are being ignored. If you're going to stop being surveilled all the time, if you want these cameras to truly go away, you're going to have to start taking a little bit of a different approach. You're going to have to try a little bit harder. You're going to have to put in a little bit more work. That's going to be necessary. Unless you want people in your local community that have power over you to be bragging like this. I am not an ACAB person. It would be impossible with the contents of my channel over the past 13 years to brand me as one. This is not okay. In no world is what that man is bragging about okay. We have a Fourth Amendment in this country. And it means something. And while there will be simps that try to pretend that we don't, or that try to twist it into claiming it means something that it doesn't. It does mean something. We have the right to not be spied on everywhere that we go for the rest of our life. Push back against this now. Push back hard because if you don't, this is going to be here forever. If there's anything that you can learn over the past 20 years, whether it's private or public, when any sort of type of surveillance or privacy-violating tool comes to light and starts getting used on a regular basis, it never rolls back. This is too important. There is too much potential for abuse, and clearly there are far too many hours. It cannot be trusted. It should not be trusted. And it needs to go away. That's it for today. And as always, I hope you learned something. You know what you have to do. Now get to work.