Flock system mix-up leads to stop on I-94

Our big story this morning. Police with guns drawn stop a driver along I-94, but it turns out they had the wrong person all because of a mistake involving flock cameras. Yes, Stephanie Quirk is live in Brookfield following this mix-up. Steph, what happened here? Good morning. Yeah, quite the mix-up. Brookfield police say they pulled over a car because a flock camera flagged it for connection to a Milwaukee homicide investigation. Well, turns out quite the mix-up. Not just wrong person, but also wrong car. Take a look again at that video that you see here. You can see multiple squads on I-94 in Waukesha County. Officers with guns drawn and a passenger sticking their hands out the window. Police pulled over the car after a flock camera flagged it again for Milwaukee homicide, but when Brookfield police called Milwaukee, Milwaukee said they no longer needed the car or the people inside, so officers let them go. That's according to Brookfield police. We did reach out to MPD to learn why that car was still active in the flock system, but again, this just brings up the bigger, you know, discussion that we have been seeing in headlines about flock cameras. They've become quite a point of contention, not just here in southeast Wisconsin, but really across the country as reports of misuse by law enforcement across the country are arising. In fact, we actually talked with Dane County chair who says that they actually voted to no longer use flock cameras. Take a listen to what he said. Even here close to home, they were violating people's trust, and so we pulled the funding from the sheriff's office to not continue that contract, but in the meantime, we've, you know, we recognize that it's an important technology. And again, just to give the other side of this to law enforcement in particular, Milwaukee police chief Jeffrey Norman has defended the flock camera system and the technology, saying that they use it as a tool to get violent criminals off the street to prevent crime and also to prosecute, get, you know, suspects to the point of where prosecutors can charge them, right? In terms of the Dane County chair, what you just heard about how they pulled that funding, they since restored the funding for a different technology though, to be used not for flock. We'll send it back to you for now. Yeah. So if we want to ask you this, what is flock really saying about all of this? Yeah, we actually did reach out to flock yesterday and they sent a statement to us. I could read a part of that in part of the statement. They said, quote, we understand that people have legitimate questions about any technology used by and we welcome that conversation Donovan. Okay, Steph, thank you so much for staying on top of that for us. See you in just a bit.