>Norfolk partnered with a company called Flock Safety in 2023 to install 172 automatic license plate reader cameras throughout the city. The goal, as Police Chief Mark Talbot put it, was to create “a nice curtain of technology,” which would make it “difficult to drive anywhere of any distance without running into a camera somewhere.”

Ooof that sure as heck sounds like a very granular search for ... everyone who gets caught on camera.