We need to let fatal car crashes continue to happen because car transportation is more useful than the downsides of lives lost or injured. We can try to minimize car accidents and school shootings without removing the immense benefits of a population that can both transport itself and defend itself from tyranny. The problem with leftist idealogy has always been that they are so open minded their brains fall out.

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'Users' here are not a neutral, non-aligned set of private customers expressing their opinion about proposed regulation. They're public officials being trained to shape policy before the public has a chance to weigh in.

The agencies that fare best aren't the ones with the best set of talking points after the fact. They're the ones who walked into city council meeting chambers first, before there was anything to react to, and said 'here's what we're using, here's why we're using it, and here's how to hold us accountable.

- Chris Colwell, SVP of customer experience at Flock, quoted on page 4 of the document

In other words, they're advising public officials (the police) to pre-empt the public approval process and then shut down potential objections by claiming that regulatory mechanisms already in place. There's a name for this: regulatory or institutional capture. The 'users' of the technology are not private individuals who are free to go off and make their own buying decisions about what works best for them.

City councils represent all the people of the community, not just the police department or a private company. The problem will solve itself in one election cycle as people vote out the candidates that Flock swayed.

You're not wrong, exactly, but also people are justifiably mad at flock's existence and as a result articles like this get written.

Perhaps there is a perfect world where every article is "better" than this, but this one doesn't seem so bad.

Finding out the battle plan for your opponent and finding ways to attack their strongest points is absolutely valuable in public policy debate.

I'd rather have this information available vs not if I found out my city council was about to lay out money for this trash service. Of course I understand the cops are driving the issue, but knowing how to cut their legs out from under them is helpful.