Article reads as a win for flock, but it’s a failure of police for not taking this woman’s stalking seriously enough.

Thank GOD we had Flock their to PROTECT this Woman! CATCH the Stalker BEFORE this Could happen! Keep her SAFE! Find the Stalker AFTER he Murdered a Woman in Public!

I've always wondered how surveillance could prevent crimes. It'd be more akin to pre-crimes, no? Most actions are completely legal up until the moment they're not.

In theory if you know that someone is going to commit a crime, you could send police to the scene to, in the best case, frighten them off or to at least be able to react quickly and hopefully prevent harm.

I don't think that it works, or that it would be worth the intrusion into everyone's personal lives even if it did, but that's the idea.

Not to me, though. I mean, she's dead, right? That doesn't seem like a win.

Failed copaganda

Yeah, but “thanks to flock they caught the guy” is the win they’re chasing

Well, I'd wager it'd only be effective for those who they've already convinced, those with poor reasoning capabilities.