Tim Hwang and Rachel Reses are joined by Manhattan Institute Senior Fellow Charles Fain Lehman and Reason Assistant Editor Autumn Billings to sort out the merits of the recent backlash against Flock’s automatic license plate readers (ALPRs). We cover: what’s driving the animus against Flock, whether police departments can minimize the privacy risks and maximize the safety benefits of ALPRs, how to weigh the tradeoffs between efficiency and transparency in law enforcement reporting, and whether traffic surveillance will ruin the thrill of low-level speeding on the highway.
Read with us—
“In Defense of Flock,” by Charles Fain Lehman in The Atlantic
“Georgia Has Arrested At Least 20 Individuals for Misusing the Flock Surveillance Database,” by Autumn Billings in Reason
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