公共记录显示，警察使用Flock Safety的技术进行了超过1700次搜索。该部门与该公司没有合同。
Public records show police officers used Flock Safety’s technology to make more than 1,700 searches. The department did not have a contract with the company.
一些纽约市警察使用了Flock Safety——一个被批评为侵犯隐私的自动车牌识别系统——进行搜索，尽管警察局并未与该公司签订合同。
Some New York City police officers used Flock Safety, a system of automated license-plate readers that has been criticized as an invasion of privacy, to run searches even though the Police Department did not have a contract to do so.
根据监督技术监督项目和拉丁裔正义组织（一个全国性民权组织）对公共数据的分析，在2023年3月至2025年12月期间，至少有二十多名警员在Flock的全国数据库中进行了超过1700次搜索。《纽约时报》的分析证实了这些数字。
At least two dozen officers made more than 1,700 searches in Flock’s nationwide database between March 2023 and December 2025, according to an analysis of public data by the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project and LatinoJustice, a national civil rights organization. Those figures were confirmed by a New York Times analysis.
警察局证实，在报告所述期间，有“少数”警员使用了该技术。警方在一份声明中表示，该部门从未与Flock签订合同，但警员们以临时方式使用了该技术。
The Police Department confirmed that a “handful” of officers used the technology during the period cited in the report. The department never had a contract with Flock, but the officers used the technology in an ad hoc manner, the police said in a statement.
声明称，警员们是在该公司代表向他们提供免费试用后获得Flock访问权限的。自动车牌识别器使用人工智能来识别和追踪车辆。警方表示，警员们使用该数据库寻找据信被盗或涉及肇事逃逸并被开到其他司法管辖区的汽车。
The officers received access to Flock after representatives of the company offered them a free trial, the statement said. The automated license plate readers use artificial intelligence to identify and track vehicles. The officers used the database to look for cars that were believed to have been stolen or involved in hit-and-runs and had been driven to other jurisdictions, the police said.
总部位于亚特兰大的Flock Safety公司在全国拥有12万台摄像头，当摄像头发现因犯罪被通缉或警方感兴趣的车辆时，会提醒执法机构。它允许警察在其系统中搜索，即使警察机构没有该公司的摄像头。
Flock Safety, a company based in Atlanta, has 120,000 cameras across the country that alert law enforcement agencies whenever the cameras spot cars wanted in a crime or of interest to police. It allows police officers to search through its system even if the police agencies do not own the company’s cameras.
警方表示：“纽约警察局没有也从未拥有过任何Flock摄像头。执法部门或任何政府机构测试不同产品以了解它们是否有益，这并不罕见。”
“The N.Y.P.D. does not and has never had any Flock cameras,” the police said. “It is not unusual for members of law enforcement or any government agency to test different products to see if they would be beneficial.”