Six juveniles were arrested in Kewanee last month after they were found with stolen cars from the Peoria area. The juveniles were captured using license plate reading cameras from Flock Safety. Connor Metz, public relations manager at Flock, explained to Our Quad Cities via Zoom how the technology is and isn’t being used.
“We are a public safety company that offers software and hardware solutions to law enforcement to help them more effectively gather objective evidence and work with their community to increase clearance rates and solve crime,” Metz said. “The most impactful and common one is our flagship product, the Falcon License Plate Recognition Camera (LPR). These cameras take still images of passing vehicles and compare the license plate on that vehicle with state and federal databases to see if the vehicle stolen, if it’s associated with a known wanted suspect or associated with something like an Amber Alert …