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Man jailed for a month despite Flock showing he was 5 miles from crime scene (arstechnica.com)

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A San Diego police department is facing a lawsuit after jailing a man for a month based on a Flock camera alert that cops allegedly should have known, based on the timestamp, did not depict the car that they were looking for.

Last November, Hugo Parra was arrested on felony charges after San Diego police relied on Flock data and a witness statement to wrongly connect him to an attempted carjacking at gunpoint, the Times of San Diego reported. Cops were looking for a red Alfa Romeo car with tinted windows and a man wearing a gray hoodie, and Parra happened to be wearing a white hoodie while riding in a friend’s car that roughly matched the vehicle description.

Although Flock cameras can capture license plate data, cops did not have even a partial plate to help them verify if the car was involved in a violent crime. But the Flock data cops used to justify the arrest actually showed that Parra was five miles away at the time of the crime, Parra’s attorney, Alex Coolman, told the Times of San Diego. Rather than arrest him, cops could have used that data, as well as Parra’s cellphone location data, to corroborate Parra’s statement that he was innocent, Coolman said.

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[–] wingnut@lemmy.zip 4 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

When I was in jail a cop walked up and down the run loudly anouncing he could treat us however he wanted and it would be justified because "we are guilty until proven innocent". Fucking coward just paled and quickened his pace when we all laughed at him. My lawyer laughed in my face when I honestly answered her questions about my religious views and I was never given even a public defender only an assistant public defender who didn't even bring up I did not match the physical description (yes I did it but wrong ethnicity dramatically wrong height, 10 years off age and found at location hours later), or manage to get the body cam footage of the cops saying "idk we'll figure something out" when I was detained and I asked what I was charged with. Id doesn't matter what the rules are on paper if no one is expected to follow them. And the rules they make sure to follow are fucked. If you are suicidal then you are stripped naked, given a apron like the lead ones at the dentist and locked in solitary with a glass wall and no blankets or books or mattress for the first 24 hours. I kept myself blindfolded trying to induce hallucinations. There is no justice here nor will there ever be.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 4 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

if they hired anyone with actual morals/or actual intelligence to leo, there would be no criminal cases to be heard therby doesnt feed the prison industrial complex, and give kickback to judges and politicians. its just another scheme to funnel taxpayer money back to judges, DAs, politicians, the police gang union being the mediator.

thats why most of the people hired or conservatives, they need people to not ask questions,.