While controversy over Flock license plate cameras has grown amid mounting privacy fears, San Joaquin County’s sheriff is publicly praising the technology.
The automated license plate readers are “the best tool we have in law enforcement,” and calls to get rid of them out of worries over public surveillance are “crap,” Sheriff Patrick Withrow said in his monthly address, shared online.
Withrow called the ALPRs “amazing” at helping solve crimes and said they are one reason the county has had a recent 20% drop in property crimes…