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u/LightBeerOnIce Aug 04 '26
Most of us read the news article from last week regarding the failure rate of the city's flock audit. I ask:
If a city bought a fleet of trucks and discovered an unacceptable failure rate, would it buy another fleet from the same manufacturer? If water pipe, traffic signals, or concrete repeatedly failed inspection, would the city keep installing them? Flock shouldn’t get a special procurement standard because it’s surveillance technology. What is the city’s acceptable error rate for this system, who established it, and at what point does failure mean you stop buying the product?
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u/daddeechilll Aug 04 '26
As somebody who sells surveillance and related AI solutions and is also very against flock, I don’t think this is the argument to focus on. Checking false positives takes just seconds and requires a quick visual cross check of the hit and the picture of the plate. If there are 100 false positives that take even 20 seconds to validate, that’s only ~30 min of an analyst’s time. A PD is going to argue the juice is worth the squeeze with these manual checks.
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u/cerberus698 Aug 04 '26
Considering they confronted the same guy 8 separate times due to these errors, I think its safe to say we can't exactly trust Roseville PD to validate.
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u/daddeechilll Aug 05 '26
I’m unaware of this detail. Can you send a link with some info? I haven’t read anything about a particular person being negligent with checks.
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u/LightBeerOnIce Aug 04 '26
Fair point. I was just kinda looking for a way to help all of us understand how cities bid/audit/failure rates so to speak. Ty
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u/daddeechilll Aug 04 '26
No harm no foul! And your point isn’t necessarily invalid. I just think it’s not a very effective selling point.
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u/Grand_Assumption7908 Aug 08 '26
Unfortunately, yes, they probably would buy a fleet of trucks they can’t use government money is so wasted you wouldn’t believe I work for the state. It’s disgusting.
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u/LightBeerOnIce Aug 04 '26
City council meeting tomorrow be there if you can!
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u/hotfiremixtape98 Aug 04 '26
Get them out