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Drew Harwell
@drewharwell.com

One of the cops, an 18-year veteran, ran Flock searches on women he met out in public, then showed up whereever they were to try to do meet-cutes: their gym, a Walmart, a Smoothie King. Said to one woman that "he spilt yogurt on his pants and told her, 'You know what that looks like.'"

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Drew Harwell
@drewharwell.com

Five Indianapolis officers were just charged following The Post’s reporting on Flock misuse. Our count of police officers & employees accused of abusing license-plate readers is now at 100 (and counting) Free to read: wapo.st/4xDOH3d

wapo.stFive Indianapolis officers charged following The Post’s reporting on Flock misuseThe officers are among at least 100 police department employees accused of abusing their access to the camera system, prompting calls for greater oversight.
Ruth Zakarin
@ruthz.bsky.social

Thank you for your work to shine a light on this. Every new tech innovation gives abusers a new tool to surveil and abuse their victims. This is turbo charged for abusers in law enforcement. And what are the victims to do — call the police?

Public Record Sourcerer
@publicrecdsource.bsky.social

Call the State's Certifying authority and make a case with them if you know the man's names (often that would be how you find out if they actually have an active badge) but most creeps will not disclose stuff and often will lie about being a cop until they know you accept cops. Pro-active Brady

Christina Samuels
@casamuels.bsky.social

I would have pleaded guilty and gone directly to jail rather than have this get out. You could not waterboard this out of me. And the sad thing is that I know the woman probably smiled and laughed out of pure fear/anxiety, and he probably was thinking "I am the MAN"

Gaurav
@mrvaidya.bsky.social

Now there's a how-we-met story to tell the grandkids. Thank you for this cursed nonsense and I hope they throw the book at this guy.