{"id":2629266,"date":"2026-07-13T17:58:01","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T21:58:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/auto-journalist-swarmed-by-cops-after-flock-cameras-mistakenly-flag-car-theft-we-live-in-a-surveillance-state\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T18:02:42","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T22:02:42","slug":"auto-journalist-swarmed-by-cops-after-flock-cameras-mistakenly-flag-car-theft-we-live-in-a-surveillance-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/auto-journalist-swarmed-by-cops-after-flock-cameras-mistakenly-flag-car-theft-we-live-in-a-surveillance-state\/","title":{"rendered":"Auto Journalist Swarmed by Cops After Flock Cameras Mistakenly Flag Car Theft: We &#8216;Live in a Surveillance State&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">36<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fauto-journalist-swarmed-by-cops-after-flock-cameras-mistakenly-flag-car-theft-we-live-in-a-surveillance-state%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2629266&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/canadian-prime-minister-mark-carney-admits-trump-has-won-the-argument-on-nato-spending\/\" title=\"Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney Admits Trump Has &#039;Won the Argument&#039; on NATO Spending\">content discusses issues related<\/a> to widespread surveillance thru camera systems like Flock license-plate readers. it highlights an incident where automotive journalist Joel Feder was wrongfully flagged as having a stolen vehicle, leading to a police confrontation despite the error stemming from a system misreading license plates.Similar cases are cited, including a woman in denver wrongly accused based on circumstantial evidence from surveillance footage. The article emphasizes concerns over mass surveillance, privacy violations, and Fourth Amendment rights, criticizing the proliferation of cameras on stoplights and public spaces.It also mentions efforts by some legislators, such as Rep. Scott Perry, to oppose such surveillance practices, and underscores the importance of civil liberties in the face of increasing monitoring technologies.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><br \/>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\"><br \/>\n<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><html><body><\/p>\n<section> \t\t\t\t<script>console.log(\"ad slot (AC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC3)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC4)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_0)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_2)\")<\/script><\/p>\n<p>Contrary to popular myth, the 19th-century English <a href=\"https:\/\/www.history.com\/articles\/who-were-the-luddites\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Luddites<\/a> did not oppose technology per se. They did, however, oppose with their lives technology used by elites to exploit the masses.<\/p>\n<p>Late last month, automotive journalist Joel Feder of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedrive.com\/news\/how-flock-cameras-wrongly-tracked-me-for-days-over-stolen-plates-and-sent-police-after-me\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Drive<\/a> learned firsthand what happens when police act on faulty information provided by Flock license-plate-reader cameras.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe now live in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/democratic-governor-announces-state-ramped-social-media-surveillance-efforts-will-reach-violators\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">surveillance state<\/a> where cameras mounted on stoplights are tracking our cars, our devices, our pets, and even us,\u201d Feder wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, one can scarcely reach any other conclusion.<\/p>\n<p>Feder, who test-drives vehicles and then produces online content, took a $155,000 Range Rover out to run errands with his wife on a late-June Sunday afternoon in suburban Minnesota.<\/p>\n<p>Suddenly, in a Kohl\u2019s parking lot, four police cars surrounded Feder\u2019s vehicle. Hands on their guns, the officers began shouting for Feder and his wife to get out of the vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, the couple complied with police instructions.<\/p>\n<p>At that point, after a humiliating pat-down, Feder learned that Flock\u2019s cameras had flagged the vehicle\u2019s plates as stolen.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, the ambush at Kohl\u2019s occurred after officers had tracked the vehicle <em>for days<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>After a fair amount of difficulty, Feder and the officers finally learned that the problem began in faraway Los Angeles, California. There, a Jaguar Land Rover dealership had reported New Jersey plates 34 03 DTM stolen. Flock\u2019s system, however, had recorded the allegedly stolen plate as simply 34 DTM. Then, the system flagged Feder\u2019s Range Rover, which had a plate number of 34 10 DTM.<\/p>\n<p>In other words, Flock\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/parents-revolt-college-tries-surveillance-experiment-kids-report-shows\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">surveillance<\/a> system ignored the two middle numbers.<\/p>\n<p>After the officers relaxed, Feder \u201cconnected the final dot.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA lot of vehicles in JLR\u2019s media fleet have a New Jersey manufacturer plate with the same alphanumeric structure \u2014 34 ## DTM,\u201d Feder wrote, which meant that \u201c[a]nywhere a police department has a partnership with Flock, any other JLR-owned car with the same plate structure is going to get flagged as stolen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Thus, other drivers may expect the same unpleasant experience. Will everything turn out as well for them?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019re lucky we\u2019re in Plymouth,\u201d one of the detaining officers said of the suburban location. \u201cIf you were in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/minneapolis-police-chief-ordered-officers-interfere-ice-resigned\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Minneapolis<\/a>, they definitely would\u2019ve come at you with guns drawn.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Feder posted police body cam footage of the incident on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-new-acting-attorney-general-jeff-rosen-recently-wrote-an-essay-on-foreign-influence-in-us-elections-this-tells-us-a-little-about-his-knowledge-of-whats-going-on-today\/\" title=\"The New Acting Attorney General Jeff Rosen Recently Wrote an Essay on Foreign Influence in US Elections \u2013 This Tells Us A Little About His Knowledge of What\u2019s Going On Today\">social media platform<\/a> Instagram. Readers may watch that footage below.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" style=\"background: #FFF; border: 0; border-radius: 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 540px; min-width: 326px; padding: 0; width: calc(100% - 2px);\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/Dal4EWpx-g8\/?utm_source=ig_embed&#038;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\">\n<div style=\"padding: 16px;\">\n<div style=\"display: flex; flex-direction: row; align-items: center;\">\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; flex-grow: 0; height: 40px; margin-right: 14px; width: 40px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center;\">\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px; width: 100px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; width: 60px;\"><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding: 19% 0;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"display: block; height: 50px; margin: 0 auto 12px; width: 50px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-top: 8px;\">\n<div style=\"color: #3897f0; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 550; line-height: 18px;\">View this post on Instagram<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding: 12.5% 0;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"display: flex; flex-direction: row; margin-bottom: 14px; align-items: center;\">\n<div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; height: 12.5px; width: 12.5px; transform: translateX(0px) translateY(7px);\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; height: 12.5px; transform: rotate(-45deg) translateX(3px) translateY(1px); width: 12.5px; flex-grow: 0; margin-right: 14px; margin-left: 2px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; height: 12.5px; width: 12.5px; transform: translateX(9px) translateY(-18px);\"><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-left: 8px;\">\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; flex-grow: 0; height: 20px; width: 20px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 0; height: 0; border-top: 2px solid transparent; border-left: 6px solid #f4f4f4; border-bottom: 2px solid transparent; transform: translateX(16px) translateY(-4px) rotate(30deg);\"><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-left: auto;\">\n<div style=\"width: 0px; border-top: 8px solid #F4F4F4; border-right: 8px solid transparent; transform: translateY(16px);\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; flex-grow: 0; height: 12px; width: 16px; transform: translateY(-4px);\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 0; height: 0; border-top: 8px solid #F4F4F4; border-left: 8px solid transparent; transform: translateY(-4px) translateX(8px);\"><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center; margin-bottom: 24px;\">\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px; width: 224px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; width: 144px;\"><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 8px; overflow: hidden; padding: 8px 0 7px; text-align: center; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;\"><a style=\"color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px; text-decoration: none;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/Dal4EWpx-g8\/?utm_source=ig_embed&#038;utm_campaign=loading\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A post d by The Drive (@thedrive)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Feder\u2019s harrowing experience hardly qualifies as isolated.<\/p>\n<p>For instance, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/denverite.com\/2025\/10\/27\/bow-mar-flock-cameras-accusation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Denverite<\/a>, in September, an officer from the Columbine Valley Police Department in Denver, Colorado, visited the home of financial planner Chrisanna Elser. The officer issued her a summons for petty theft and accused her of stealing a $25 package from a porch in nearby Bow Mar, not because Flock cameras had captured her vehicle plates at the scene of the alleged crime, but because those cameras captured her vehicle <em>entering and then leaving the town around the time someone stole the package<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The officer also erroneously claimed to have Ring doorbell camera footage of Elser swiping the package.<\/p>\n<p>Worst of all, after she received the summons, Elser had to prove her own whereabouts. The fact that she did so successfully and that the police department eventually voided the summons, however, does not diminish the broader crime against civil liberties.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe\u2019s considering suing,\u201d the outlet wrote. \u201cAnd even with the ticket dropped, she\u2019s left unnerved by the prospect of being wrongfully accused on the basis of circumstantial evidence from a mass surveillance system.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In Washington, D.C., of course, legislators love mass surveillance. For proof, see their behavior this entire century, from the 2001 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/new-anti-semitism-bill-generations-patriot-act-sounds-great-horrific-practice\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Patriot Act<\/a> to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/trump-pushes-skeptical-house-republicans-pass-fisa-extension-extremely-important-military\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">present day<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Republican Rep. Scott Perry of Pennsylvania, a notable exception, has tried and failed to end this abomination.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFlock and Flock-like cameras track where law-abiding people go, who they visit, and how they live \u2013 all without a warrant. I attempted to stop this with an amendment, which unfortunately failed recently in Committee; that\u2019s not the end of this, though. The mass surveillance of the American People must end. Call your legislators. STOP THE FLOCK,\u201d Perry wrote Tuesday on the social media platform X.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Flock and Flock-like cameras track where law-abiding people go, who they visit, and how they live \u2013 all without a warrant.<\/p>\n<p>I attempted to stop this with an amendment, which unfortunately failed recently in Committee; that\u2019s not the end of this, though. The mass surveillance of\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/hbrPQcVOJ2\">pic.twitter.com\/hbrPQcVOJ2<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Rep. Scott Perry (@RepScottPerry) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/RepScottPerry\/status\/2074584236535808109?\">July 7, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>On this issue, free citizens must draw a line in the sand.<\/p>\n<p>The proliferation of phone cameras in a digital world is bad enough. Unfortunately, that horse has probably left the barn for good.<\/p>\n<p>The placement of surveillance cameras on stoplights, however, amounts to a choice. Regardless of its crime-fighting utility, that choice, as Perry noted, is a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/alert-government-agency-admits-copied-phone-data-massive-scale-4th-amendment-violations\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fourth Amendment<\/a> violation.<\/p>\n<p>England\u2019s Luddite rebels, who never enjoyed such constitutional protections, would have agreed.<\/p>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #171717; display: flex;font-size: 16px;font-weight: 600;line-height: 1.5;margin: 24px 0;padding: 18px 20px 18px 30px;text-align: left;\">\n<div style=\"align-self: stretch;border-left: 3px solid #171717;flex-shrink: 0;padding-left: 20px;\"><\/div>\n<p><a style=\"text-decoration: none;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/\">Choose The Western Journal as your preferred source on Google and never miss reporting that defends truth, protects freedom, and advances Western civilization<\/a><\/div>\n<p style=\"border: 1px solid #f5f5f5; padding: 16px;\">Advertise with The Western Journal and reach millions of highly engaged readers, while supporting our work. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/advertise-us\/?wj_source=article\">Advertise Today<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position: relative;\">\n<div class=\"ff-fancy-header-container\"> \t\t\t \t<\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-submit-correction inner-content\">\n<div class=\"correction-form\">\n<form style=\"display: none;\">\n<div class=\"sc-name-field\"> \t\t\t\t\t\t<label>* Name<\/label> \t\t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"text\" name=\"name\" required> \t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"sc--field\"> \t\t\t\t\t\t<label>* <\/label> \t\t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"text\" name=\"\" required> \t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p> \t\t\t\t\t<label>* Message<\/label> \t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t<textarea name=\"message\" required><\/textarea> \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"required-message\" style=\"display: none; padding-bottom: 15px;\">* All fields are required.<\/div>\n<p> \t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"submit\" value=\"Submit\" onclick=\"event.preventDefault(); firefly_sc();\"> \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"firefly-sc-confirm\" style=\"display: none;\">Success!<\/div>\n<\/p><\/form>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> \t\t<script> \t\t\tfunction firefly_sc() { \t\t\t\tif( typeof window.captchaPublicKey == typeof undefined ){ \t\t\t\t\tconsole.error('window.captchaPublicKey is not defined'); \t\t\t\t} \t\t\t\tgrecaptcha.execute( window.captchaPublicKey, { action: 'submit_correction' } ).then( function( token ) { \t\t\t\t\tvar opts = { \t\t\t\t\t\taction:    'firefly_sc_submit', \t\t\t\t\t\tname:      document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"name\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\t:     document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\tmessage:   document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"message\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\tpost_id:   firefly_post_id, \t\t\t\t\t\tcap_token: token \t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\tvar inputs = [ 'name', '', 'message' ];  \t\t\t\t\tfor( var i = 0; i < inputs.length; i++ ) if( ! 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