{"id":1032238,"date":"2026-08-30T03:24:23","date_gmt":"2026-08-30T03:24:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1032238\/"},"modified":"2026-08-30T03:24:23","modified_gmt":"2026-08-30T03:24:23","slug":"with-flock-gone-tempe-needs-alternative-with-similar-investigative-value","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1032238\/","title":{"rendered":"With Flock gone, Tempe needs alternative with similar investigative value"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OPINION \u2014 Tempe has decided to discontinue Flock license-plate readers that have helped law enforcement connect cases and solve crimes.<\/p>\n<p>Mayor Corey Woods, in a statement, said: \u201cWe have to be able to provide public safety in a way that maintains the trust of our community. For Tempe, that means taking these cameras down.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Woods\u2019 statement raises a question: If Tempe already trusts police officers to use deadly force, make arrests and handle sensitive FBI and Arizona Department of Public Safety information, what specific risk makes this investigative technology unacceptable?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OPINION \u2014 Tempe has decided to discontinue Flock license-plate readers that have helped law enforcement connect cases and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1032239,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5131],"tags":[412873,412872,5229,412880,5643,1587,412882,412881,412864,412865,412879,412866,412870,412878,412869,412867,1589,412868,412871,412875,412874,26228,67,586,132,5230,412876,412877,68,2969],"class_list":["post-1032238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-phoenix","tag-000-residents","tag-35-part-1-serious-felony-crimes-per-1","tag-america","tag-analysis-capability","tag-arizona","tag-az","tag-bill-richardson","tag-city-council-needs-concrete-alternative","tag-discontinue","tag-flock-license-plate-readers","tag-fully-operational-criminal-intelligence","tag-help-law-enforcement","tag-investigative-technology-unacceptable","tag-limited-real-time-crime-center-coverage","tag-maintain-trust-of-community","tag-mayor-corey-woods","tag-phoenix","tag-provide-public-safety","tag-public-safety-challenges","tag-residents-deserve-transparency","tag-statewide-average-22","tag-tempe","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-unresolved-sexual-assault-cases","tag-unsolved-property-crimes","tag-us","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1032238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032238\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1032239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1032238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1032238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1032238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}