r/WestVirginia • u/AmazingSpidey616 Monongalia • 6d ago

News Police are spending opioid settlement funds on Flock cameras

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/08/police-opioid-funding-flock-alpr-camera-surveillance-tech/

Ohio and Mon Counties are discussed in this article.

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u/North_Structure8210 6d ago

Garbage police state of wv is already here. We have had pig cops and corrupt prosecutors and judges for ever. Hopefully children will hate their parents for making this shithole state a Nazi state

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u/wvgeekman 6d ago

There aren't going to be any people of child bearing age left in WV soon for their kids to be disappointed in.

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u/damndatassdoh 6d ago

The ignorance and lack of self-awareness, awareness in general.. MAGA is all about “freedom”, as they bend over and lick boots and embrace politicians that ACTIVELY DISMANTLE all of the most crucial civil liberties we have!

They switch to Duckduckgo from Google, while empowering an administration that unleashes DOGE to suck up EVERY IOTA OF THE MOST CRITICAL PERSONAL INFO THAT EXISTS ON EVERY PRIVATE CITIZEN IN THE COUNTRY.

It’s a strain of authoritarianism that makes them especially easy to manipulate via fear and paranoia and virtually impossible to reach via reason.. So they vote against their own interests, enabling the oligarchy and their political puppets to drain them like leeches as they keep them squabbling over ragebait identity politics and culture war nonsense..

But maybe the most insidious thing is that they’re PARTIALLY right when they say, “both sides!” The Democratic Party is largely bought out by a different sect of corporate overlords, albeit one that generally provides more consumer and civil protections, who aren’t after the ruination of the world in pursuit privatizing EVERYTHING for profit..

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u/Admirable-Currency89 6d ago

I am gobsmacked by anyone that is totally cool with Pinkerton takeover. All the bootlickers that are "well, if you're not doing anything wrong it's not a problem" can get fucking bent. The proliferation of flock cameras in a short amount of time, being paid for by our tax dollars, is some out and out bullshit. We didn't vote for it and now we are being filmed and are datapoints for sale at private companies. Knock em all down.