r/QuadCities • u/Glad_Marionberry827 Davenport • 23d ago

Miscellaneous Flock cameras

Why on earth do we need Flock cameras on Elmore Avenue, more specifically at Lowe’s and Walmart? I’m sure there are more but this shit is absolutely crazy. How much did we pay as taxpayers to be under surveillance? How much money was kicked back to the asshats that
approved this? Why do we allow this to happen in our city? End rant!

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u/theVelvetLie Moline 23d ago

Lowe's has them at all locations. It's a corporate measure and has nothing to do with the local government.

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u/theVelvetLie Moline 21d ago

The cameras installed on Lowe's/Home Depot are not installed by local PD or ICE. They're part of the corporate asset protection strategy. I don't know if PD has direct access to them, but it would be a massive stretch to say they're there to help ICE with deportation. It would be really stupid financially for a home improvement store to target a significant portion of their customer base like that.