Amid concerns about timecard fraud in his local police department, the mayor started tracking officers.
The entire police department resigned in response.
Police love Flock stalker cameras when they use them on the general public, but not when its used on them.
If there’s one thing the rising surveillance dragnet has exposed throughout North America, it’s that cops really don’t like to taste their own medicine. In fact, the experience drove police employed by the town of Milner, Georgia to resign in tandem in late October, after their boss admitted to tracking the police chief’s work truck during an investigation.
According to local channel WSB-TV Atlanta, Milner Mayor Craig Timmons called a last-minute city council meeting to distribute copies of an investigation report containing allegations that the police chief was committing some sort of payroll fraud. Basically, Timmons alleged that police chief Lamar Bunn was not working the hours indicated on his time sheets.
In addition to tracking his truck, Timmons told local reporters he’d set up a surveillance camera pointed at the chief’s office.
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To retaliate against the mayor and signal their support for Bunn, the entire department tendered its resignation on the spot, something Milner told WSB-TV he did not anticipate. The police chief denied the allegations, saying that it’s “very common” for Milner officers to work off-hours as well as outside the city.
Yeah, working at the cop bar or your mistress' apartment is, "Very common."
Regardless of the validity of the investigation, the mass-resignation exposes the hypocrisy of Georgia police, who have access to perhaps the largest public-private surveillance operation in US history. As the home of controversial surveillance company Flock Safety, the state of Georgia has nearly 10,000 automatic license plate readers in operation, which are increasingly used by police departments throughout the country to surveil civilian movement without probable cause.
Indeed.
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