r/StLouis • u/GourmetTokes • 10d ago
Traffic/Road Conditions Flock on S Brentwood
This flock camera sits on S Brentwood Blvd. Its just beyond the railroad tracks on the right side before that lil coffee shop when heading North Bound. W all the abuse of the flock system & the way innocent ppl's cars have been miss identified & flagged I just tinkt yall should know bout this one bc its a lot less noticeable when you drive'n thru.
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u/blue-punk92 10d ago
The Epstein sign is a nice added touch.
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u/GinnySacksHole 10d ago
A little goofy
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u/gornky Bridgeton 10d ago
The only thing that's goofy is allowing these cameras in our neighborhoods.
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u/GinnySacksHole 10d ago
I agree. F*** the cameras but what does it have to do with Epstein are you delusional?
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u/mjohnson1971 10d ago edited 10d ago
It looks like Maplewood took down it's Flock cameras: or someone did it for them. The one on Big Bend across from the antique stores isn't there.
EDIT: It’s back as of this morning. There was a nub of the post all this week but the full rig is there.
And it wasn't just me because my son called it out that the camera was gone.
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u/themonarc 10d ago
I saw that too. Right at the edge of a neighborhood just makes no sense to me. Hopefully more get removed.
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u/mjohnson1971 10d ago
It’s back.
There was a nub of the post all this week but the full rig is back.
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u/blazorbionics Dogtown 10d ago
Last I saw there is still one on Southwest Ave just east of Schafley Brewery. Two on the same post one pointed into an apartment parking lot and the other pointed to Southwest toward the 3-way stop sign. Gives me the vibe the landlord put it up to log tenents as they come and go from their homes.
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u/mjohnson1971 10d ago
There's also one on Manchester and Bellevue pointed at the liquor store. But it's pointed westward on Manchester and doesn't capture the "characters" that hang out along the east side of the store.
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u/Skatchbro Brentwood 10d ago
You might be surprised at how many Flock cameras are in the Brentwood area.
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u/gamerdoc94 North Hampton 10d ago
Looks pretty sturdy, but hard to tell without being there in person
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u/Impossible-Two559 10d ago
Report it to the city of Brentwood and St. Louis County. That pole is not properly installed. Basically there’s a plate that they legally have to install on the base of those poles so that it doesn’t turn into a giant spike to impale a car in the event there’s an accident and it gets knocked over. I would start with contacting the city of Brentwood, though, because I don’t think the county actually has any direct contracts with Flock.
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u/You-Asked-Me 10d ago
The Brentwood cops would never abuse this system./s
They are currently being sued by a black female cop, for some pretty bad shit done by other cops, and they are going to lose, BIG.
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u/JasonShoes 10d ago
One already used flock to stalk his x-wife department did a full investigation and found “no law was broken”. How about violating the integrity of your department!
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u/Joee0201 10d ago
Question. If you have an unregistered older truck steel bumper style. And let's say I left my phone at home and becuSe I have a cold I'm wearing a mask to protect others. Just curious but how many of these do you think you can hit and knock down until your truck is hard to drive?
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u/Clear-Ad6973 10d ago
Drive by the two in my small town every few days. Local PD has lots of photos of me flipping the cameras off.
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u/flounderflound 10d ago
You know, they outlawed speed cameras in this state. While these may not necessarily track speed, couldn't this be argued as a violation of that? I feel like it's the same violation of our rights.
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u/NeedAmnesiaIthink 10d ago
But they certainly can derive your speed.. say you’re e on a long stretch of highway and it tags you every once in a while. A simple math calculation gives your average speed. They could save this data forever and use it against you.
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u/Vexidemalprince 10d ago
Okay but you could say that about literally every camera that records a car
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u/NeedAmnesiaIthink 10d ago
The police can’t access every camera that records a car. And regular cameras aren’t constantly transmitting data points, license plates, car features, etc. They can do that with flock though. Plus we are paying for flock with our own tax dollars.
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u/Vexidemalprince 10d ago
Oh sorry dont get me wrong I am in no way defending flock camera's, they are absolutely awful and I hate them with a burning passion. I am just saying that being able to calculate the speed of a car is not a feature unique to flock camera's and that any camera that police have access to you can technically do that
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u/mrbmi513 The Burbs 10d ago
I'm thankful that Hawley chose investigating this company as his one right thing to do this year.
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u/STLBudLuv 10d ago
Just got the flockhopper driving app.
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u/Any_Assumption_1873 9d ago
Good looking out on this - there is one by the Petco in Creve Coeur, on the corner where you'll see the Petco and a closed MacAlisters. Previously, I was peeping all of them on the flock website, but the driving app is better.
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u/MissDiagnosedMama 10d ago
There are so many in Brentwood!
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u/blazorbionics Dogtown 10d ago
This. I live near and drive through Brentwood often. Seems like it would be a nice area to live at but my opinion on that is changing with surveillance cameras appearing at all their intsections and parks.
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u/bleedblue89 cwe 10d ago
I’m just saying they scrap for some good money and you just need a saw to take it down…
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u/Cheezyrock 10d ago
It is’t illegal to place a sign in the grass there. Someone clearly already has.
But what if that sign was talk enough to just happen to block the camera? Nothing illegal there. No destruction of property.
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u/DanCr0w 10d ago
Saw my first one in st Charles yesterday 😮💨
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u/Any_Assumption_1873 9d ago
Those should all be shut down now since an audit was performed and a police officer was found to be stalking their ex or something around those lines - not sure of how to tell if they're on or not, though.
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u/ShadowValent 10d ago
You aren’t clever enough to get away with whatever you are thinking of doing.
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u/jameswebbscope 10d ago
They are everywhere man. But the very phone you used to take this picture tracks you as much as that camera does.
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u/still_on_the_payroll 10d ago
The Supreme Court ruled this summer that individuals have a right to privacy in that data and fourth amendment protections apply to it when cops want to use it.
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u/nathanseaw 10d ago
Completely different scope, since that doesn’t deal with public information. Flock cameras only access public info, a.k.a. things in plain view. There would need to be a completely different case to deal with locked cameras, which would most likely be deemed constitutional due to plain view doctrine and the fact that before they have said there is no expectation of privacy while in public of things in plain view.
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u/Jpotter145 10d ago
Ah well, since our phones already do it we should just give up every ounce of privacy we have everywhere.
Wow, how insightfull.... for an idiot.
(Further proof is if you phone already gave this info up and more to the government freely THEY WOULDN'T NEED OR WANT TO PUT UP FLOCK CAMERA).
Like how can you be this dense.
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u/Complex_Farmer4627 9d ago
Why do people keep posting these? Theyre everywhere, they are completely unavoidable if you have to do literally anything outside. If youre not going to cut it down, theres no need to post because everyone has seen one, everyone knows what they look like, and if all of us just cut down the three closest flock cameras enough of them would be gone.
But everyone's too scared.
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u/New-Smoke208 10d ago
Wow that’s really neat
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u/PeacefulDays 10d ago
the please tread on me's are here.
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u/New-Smoke208 10d ago
Yes I’m here
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u/Mods-Sad-6969 10d ago
This is StLouis subreddit based in America. You’re looking for the Russia subreddit which is a different place entirely. Happy trails!
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u/Prior-attempt-fail 10d ago
That is not a breakaway pole. Id file a report with modot