Flock Reliability And Red-Light Camera Objections

The Flock debate keeps rolling when Michael Opelka tells us his plate appears in a Virginia theft search tied to a vehicle he says he has never owned. We acknowledge the other side by discussing how surveillance data helped investigators build the Bryan Kohberger case, but the privacy concerns grow when we watch footage showing cameras positioned at the entrance and exit of a public gun range in Florida. We ask what authorities gain by recording everyone who legally enters a shooting range and where the proper boundary should sit. Then we turn to newly surfaced footage of Mitch McConnell during a marathon Senate session. We watch staff and other senators apparently help him understand or correct votes, see a clerk use an under-the-table signal and hear that McConnell remains seated for nearly six hours. That sparks a larger discussion about elderly members of Congress, Dianne Feinstein, term limits, voters repeatedly returning the same people to Washington and why members of Congress have little incentive to restrict their own power. We return to Flock cameras with DeFlock.org and start punching in communities across the Philadelphia region, finding large numbers in Norristown, Cherry Hill, Pottstown and Philadelphia before expanding into countywide totals. Ro Khanna’s defense of Democrats remaining connected to Hasan Piker then sends us into a wider fight about party standards, controversial political voices and free speech.