Cops Are Using Flock to Spy on People for the Crime of Standing Around

Police scanned Flock cameras in a single town in Illinois more than 1,200 times to investigate cases of loitering.

theintercept.com/2026/09/09/flock-cameras-police-loitering-curfew-surveillance/

I remember when I was 14 or something and first looked up what “loitering” meant and I was like… In the US cops can harass you for just being somewhere? Not even private property, just existing on a sidewalk? Still doesn’t make sense

Mate, the laws are written so that if someone wealthy or powerful doesn’t like what you’re doing, it’s illegal. And if what you’re doing isn’t illegal, they find something you’re doing that is.