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Welcome to the new traffic stop, where it's your word against AI's

theblaze.com · 3h · first reportShare

Imagine being accused of a crime because a camera spotted your car near the scene. The camera wasn't wrong. Your car really was there. But you didn't commit the crime. The police, however, are so confident in their technology that they seem to be treating your guilt as an open-and-shut case. Isaacs said she was home asleep when troopers arrived at 4:45 in the morning and told her she had killed three people. Chrisanna Elser doesn't have to imagine it. Camera shy Elser was accused of stealing a package after doorbell footage captured a woman taking it from a home. Police then searched Flock camera records for vehicles in the area around the time of the theft. They found Elser's Rivian and concluded that she was the woman in the doorbell video. They had the wrong woman. Elser really had driven through the area that day, but she was there for a noon appointment with her tailor, more than a quarter-mile from the house where the package was stolen. Her Rivian's cameras showed her driving th