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A Colorado cop stood on a woman's porch and told her there was "zero doubt" she stole a $25 package. His entire case was a license plate scan. To clear her name, she had to surrender her phone's location history, her truck's camera footage, and a neighbor's doorbell video. Bow Mar, Colorado has about 900 residents. A Flock camera logged Chrisanna Elser's Rivian passing through town for 17 minutes on the day of the theft. That plate hit, plus a grainy doorbell clip of a much younger woman on…
reason@reasonAug 18
Flock allegedly spotted this Colorado woman's truck around the time and location of a package theft. What ensued was a Kafkaesque scene in which she insisted it wasn't her, while an officer who came to her door said he had indisputable proof—but refused to show her unless she admitted she stole the package. "It is her, it is 100 percent, it is locked in, there is zero doubt," he tells her. But police dropped the case after she provided her cellphone tracking data, camera footage from her truck, and video placing her elsewhere at the time of the theft From wrongful arrests to officers stalking exes, license plate readers keep exposing police failures: https://t.co/FPyx05m1iZ