The LAPD just decided to cut ties with Flock Safety Cameras. A recent internal audit showed these systems were throwing out a stunning number of bad calls. For every hundred alerts about a stolen vehicle, ninety nine of them were flat out wrong. That means a 99.4% false positive rate, spitting out thousands of bogus stolen car warnings every single day across Los Angeles.
The impact was simple: police cruisers burned gas chasing shadows down back alleys. The camera system flagged cars with expired tags as stolen, sending officers on wild goose chases. Think about the cops on the street, clocking hours, running down leads that fizzled out before they even started. That's real taxpayer cash and real time poured into a digital drain, all for nothing. The system just kept churning, flagging ordinary people for minor paperwork slips while promising to catch the real bad guys. It created more headaches and wasted resources than it was worth. Now the city has finally had enough.