A former Milwaukee police officer is now facing criminal charges after prosecutors say he used a powerful police surveillance tool not to solve crimes, but to keep tabs on his girlfriend and the man she used to date.
That is the case attorney Josh Sanford broke down on his America’s Attorney channel, where he said the facts are so strange they sound less like normal police misconduct and more like a jealous boyfriend turning a law-enforcement database into what he called a “jealousy management app.”
The officer at the center of the case is Josue Ayala, and according to Sanford’s summary of the criminal complaint, the allegations do not involve a traffic stop, use of force, or body-camera scandal. Instead, the controversy centers on repeated use of the Flock license-plate recognition system, a surveillance network designed to help police track vehicles tied to actual investigations…