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		ceejayoz 18 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: US cities are axing Flock Safety surveillance tech... As the authors note, their data only goes back to 2018. So “pre-COVID normal” is tough to confirm here. Then we have to figure out why it dropped so much pre-COVID. Because the timeline doesn’t say it can possibly be Flock. Same for the 2023 drop. The timeline simply doesn’t match up with Flock’s rollout.

conductr 15 days ago [–]

That’s why I said “how I read this chart is ….” I don’t know what pre2018 looked like either. But on this chart, it was the precovid portion.

Nowhere on here am I seeing how covid caused a spike up, that’s what you said though and signifying our differences in reading the chart that was shown.

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