Here's an AP report from half an hour ago: "3 young people arrested in series of random shootings across Austin that left 4 injured." I wonder how do they know its random? They're calling it a "series." It might have been coordinated.Our investigators lost critical hours tracking down today’s shooting suspects because Austin’s City Council chose politics over public safety and prevented APD from using license plate readers and other crime-fighting technology.
— Michael Bullock (@MBullockATX) May 18, 2026
Those cameras could have helped identify suspect… https://t.co/yp4ZKdLc1a
Three young people were in custody following at least 10 random weekend shootings in Austin, Texas, that left four people injured, city officials said. Driving around the city in stolen vehicles, at least two of the suspects fired at two fire stations, apartment buildings and houses during a string of robberies and shootings from Saturday afternoon to Sunday morning, Austin Police Chief Lisa Davis said Sunday. Two boys, ages 15 and 17, were apprehended after they were pulled over in a stolen car and attempted to run. A third person who had been in the car also ran and was detained Sunday night at a gas station in Manor, about 15 miles (24 kilometers) northeast of Austin....My son was among the Austin residents who received a police warning to "shelter in place."
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If there was any chance the shooters were politically motivated conservatives the media wouldn’t fail to take political advantage, so when there’s language that’s neutral or defending I play the percentages and assume perps side with the left…
They're pro-criminal. Simple as that.
Dems are criminals and they live other criminals
"Crime-fighting technology" is the nice way to say surveillance state.
"Could have," sure, if they happened to be in the right place at the right time.
Indeed, I'm with no Known UnKnown in being hesitant to promote or encourage expansion of the surveillance state.
Austin (the Madison, WI of TX) used stoplight cameras from 2009 to 2019. They stopped when the state of Texas banned the cameras. So, liberal Austin was willing to use license plate readers to hand out driving tickets, but not to help the cops chase murderers.
What is More Important?
protecting the lives of innocent citizens?
or
protecting the rights of criminals?
To Austin.. the answer is OBVIOUS
The targets they showed on a news report did in fact appear to be random. And when no people are hit by 10 shots it's pretty obvious they were not "targeting" anyone in particular.
If conspiracy theorists want to backtrack and try and connect the various targets have at it, but I think the term "random" was used specifically to indicate no person has been established as a target.
Yeah, well that's leftwing land. So what if a couple people have to die so they can virtue signal. I'm sure if you talked to your local Austin libtard he'd defend the council.
my cousin, who grew up in rural iowa; moved to Austin back at the turn of the century.. and loudly and proudly stated that he was a "Texan"
Every time he'd do that (which was often), i'd have to point out that Travis county was NOT part of "Texas".. it was part of California.
Is there a right to privacy when you are out in pubic?
We'd just drive around and listen to rock and smoke weed when I was 15. If we wanted to shoot we'd go out where it was legal and practice. Don't mix the two.
The anti-LPR movement is about one thing: anti-ICE organization. They want to disable or disconnect any tech that can and will be used to help any Feds in any case. That's how hostile blue cities/counties/states are to the Federal government right now. To think the expert class used to worry about right wing militias LOL. Right now blue dots are competing to out-Fort Sumpter each other. Explicitly so in MN and Portland.
They want to protect criminals
When I was 17, no cop would have caught me. I was like the wind, if the wind was an artful dodger.
It's a balancing act, but I'm with Known Unknown and kirk. Yes, an unrestricted surveillance state can certainly catch criminals more expeditiously, but it watches all of us, not just bad guys. Same as shutting down the Second Amendment would certainly reduce the overall number of killings in the country, it isn't worth the cost of our lost freedom.
License-plate readers can be useful in helping find criminal suspects when needed for that purpose. They would also track you, all the time, and store that information forever. Every surveillance technology involves privacy tradeoffs, so consider whether they're worth it.
Benny Johnson on X: "Disgraced Former FBI Director James Comey signals to the resistance career agents at the bureau to wait out the Trump DOJ: “Hang on two and a half years, and then we can rebuild these institutions.” https://t.co/uh3fgl0bMO" / X https://share.google/jCwP4WwlRa98R8ASL
It's the same as a gun control argument that proposes that all citizens should be treated as potential criminals, lest the criminals have a chance to get away with it.
I notice they didn't get away with it, without everybody else's license plate being read.
Not Chrissy!
Is she ok?
Will mama bear be heading down to visit, or did one of Richard's families take them in?
You must be sooooo worried, mama.
Explains the slow posting of late as you waited to see if your child escaped alive....
They were targeting jews, I bet. Christy and Jon look like Richard. You have the recessive gene pool that did not transfer over.... except for maybe a stray freckle or two. Lol
I presume that the Austin City Council got rid of the license plate readers as soon as they realized that their license plates were being read too, the same as the license plates of ordinary citizens.
We have the technology to read license plates on moving vehicles and ID faces from blurry surveillance cameras.
But gosh darn it we just can't seem to be able to make our election system secure and auditable.
A bridge too far, apparently.
Ann said ... "I wonder how do they know its random? They're calling it a "series." It might have been coordinated."
They may not know the facts, but they are certain of their narrative.
If you’re out in public and you’re doing something you don’t want recorded, the solution is simple. Don’t do it.
Two boys and a “person” have been arrested/detained. Well that’s even-handed reporting.
"If you’re out in public and you’re doing something you don’t want recorded, the solution is simple. Don’t do it."
This is a naive interpretation of how recorded and stored data and video can be used to manipulate.
Maybe if cops didnt give reason to ban this technology it wouldn't be an issue.
Milwaukee PD officer Josue Ayala and Flock cameras:
According to a criminal complaint, Ayala was using the cameras to track someone he was dating. Specifically, he looked up the license plate of his dating partner more than 120 times between March 26 and May 26 of 2025. He also looked at a second license plate that belonged to that person's former partner 55 times in the same time period.
Ayala listed the reason for his search in the Flock system as "investigation."
I wonder how do they know it’s random? They're calling it a "series." It might have been coordinated.
You mean there is a group of people in this country that want to take other people’s stuff and any violence they commit is “mostly peaceful” and “random?”
Anyone proven to have used a gun in a crime where someone is hurt should be punished by public hanging. A couple years of that and gun crime will dramatically recede.
Perhaps worse -- The Univ Minn. police have a policy not to identify the race of alleged perpetrators they are looking for.
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