May 1, 2026
Wanted by mistake
Flock cameras keep telling police a man who doesn't have a warrant has a warrant
Colorado cops kept stopping the wrong man, and commenters say the real glitch is the system
TLDR: A Colorado man was repeatedly flagged by police cameras as having a warrant he didn’t have, until the police chief said he was finally removed from the alert list. Commenters say the bigger scandal is a reckless plate-matching practice and a system that can get innocent drivers stopped over basic errors.
A Colorado man reportedly kept getting flagged by Flock cameras as having a warrant he did not actually have, and the internet’s reaction was basically: this is beyond sloppy. The police chief says the man has now been removed from the Flock "hot list," but commenters were not exactly popping champagne. The loudest take? This wasn’t some spooky robot uprising — it was old-fashioned bad police practice dressed up in shiny surveillance gear. One commenter was stunned by the idea that in Colorado, plates with the letter O and the number 0 can both get listed for a warrant match, calling that an "insane" regular practice.
That kicked off the real drama: is the camera company the villain, or is law enforcement using a broken process and then blaming the tech? Some readers said the headline makes it sound like the cameras are freelancing, when the uglier truth may be that humans built a lazy system that keeps hurting innocent people. Others brought personal horror stories, including being stopped after plate readers wrongly claimed their registration was invalid. One furious commenter jumped straight to "multimillion dollar libel suit" territory.
And because no online pile-on is complete without conspiracy and sarcasm, one person claimed the post had so many Flock defenders that "there must be an artificial factor at play," while another roasted police tech with a joke comparing it to targeted ads that recommend a refrigerator after you already bought one. Grim story, but the comment section came armed with pitchforks and punchlines.
Key Points
- •A 9NEWS report says a Colorado man was repeatedly flagged by Flock camera alerts as having a warrant when he did not.
- •The reported issue involves false law-enforcement alerts tied to license plate data.
- •The video description says drivers with letter-O and zero combinations in their plates are being pulled over by mistake.
- •The mistaken alerts were flagged by the Flock camera system.
- •The police chief said the man has now been removed from the department’s Flock hot list.