After trying to report for more than 2 weeks
I am deleting this app as generally useless. Whatever the trick is to actually getting a camera reported, I haven’t figured it out and am over trying. The reasoning for the app is excellent. The utility of its use is not so much. Best luck improving.
Response from developer
Would love to chat about the issues you ran into - please reach out to contact@deflock.org!
Top notch resource
Love this app and all the wonderful people and organizations that contribute to it constantly. We shouldn’t need this but alas we do!
The police are manipulating cams in minority areas
minority communities don’t have cameras pinned on the map even though you can physically see the setups through out these neighborhoods. The world is falling apart and “they” are still worried about us….
Response from developer
That is highly concerning; please reach out via email with some of this info so we can properly discuss how to handle it. It's possible they just haven't been reported yet too - all of this is crowdsourced.
POLICE ARE MANIPULATING CAMS
As a developer since 2008 I used ushahidi map pins when it started this brand of mapping. I know the pitfalls and I drive everywhere. You should not allow delete unless confirmed by several users or add a pic feature to show the camera there and any camera with a confirmed pic can not be deleted because police are deleting the flock pins in black neighborhoods. Look at small towns in NC and notice that every time you see train tracks you see no cameras on one side of the tracks. The black sides. I can’t put all the black neighborhood cameras in by myself. What is concerning is that some of these police actually live in the black neighborhood
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Response from developer
That is highly concerning; please reach out via email with some of this info so we can properly discuss how to handle it.
Overall, great app
Love this idea and it’s helpful to see where the cameras are ahead of time, when planning a trip. I can’t get notifications to work on my phone but hoping this will resolve eventually.
Response from developer
My first mobile app - apologies. That and approximate/imprecise location permissions I have not (yet!) been able to get working correctly. Keep an eye out for v3 next month. Submitting new data to the map works well though, if there are any you know about!
