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"Meanwhile in <location> we can't even have Flock cameras to automatically catch people who may have killed someone"

Hopefully the absurdity of broad scale surveillance can't be so easily lost in hyperbole

Flock doesn't automatically catch people who killed someone. Red light cameras do catch people who run red lights.

And people that don't run red lights and suffer selective enforcement and are used for arbitrary surveillance and so on and so on. Don't let your naive view of what you want these things and their handlers to do distract you from reality, regardless of the brand or intent of widely deployed cameras.

Traditional red light cameras take a still frame and are triggered only during a red light violation.

That's actually a problem because sometimes they catch people who weren't running the red light, but easily fixed by capturing a bit more.

Thank goodness you found a basic flaw in red light and speed enforcement cameras. It's shame it's taken decades for someone to realize this issue and now we can finally start working on solutions like taking two photos.

No one in law enforcement is trying to help you. That's not what it's for.

That's why I'd prefer automatic enforcement of the most dangerous, anti-social behaviors instead of requiring an LEO to have to wait around and catch you in the act.

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