- cross-posted to:
- usa@midwest.social
- cross-posted to:
- usa@midwest.social
Brown County Sheriff’s Department in Wisconsin used Flock cameras, which record the license plates of every vehicle that passes by them, to identify and arrest a resident of Wisconsin for purchasing marijuana. Per the report, the cops used Flock’s network of cameras to track the man as he drove from Wisconsin, where possession remains a misdemeanor punishable by up to six months in jail and a $1,000 fine for a first offense, to Michigan, where recreational weed purchase and possession are legal.
Per the report, the cops looked up his license plate and found that he “travels to Michigan frequently.” Of course, they couldn’t prove by the cameras alone that he was going to Michigan to buy weed. But apparently just going across state lines is enough to create suspicion. In a criminal complaint filed by the police against the man, they call Michigan a “known source state for marijuana as it is legal there.”
That’s true! But he wasn’t arrested for travelling, so I don’t know why you said it.
He was profiled for traveling. If you read even the article summary, the reason they stopped him in the first place was because flock identified him as someone who “travels to Michigan frequently.”
And if literally the only thing they had to go on was “goes to Michigan frequently” then that would be shit investigation and probably a cover for some other shady reason they had to pursue this guy.
And maybe the American police are shit enough that that’s believable even if we don’t actually know it.
But if that were going to get me really worried I’d want to actually have some evidence that that’s what happened, rather than this lack of statement in the article.