Charles Fain Lehman
@CharlesFLehman
Senior Fellow @ManhattanInst • Senior Editor @CityJournal • Crime, Drugs, Vice, Cities • Opinions my own
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Still no evidence of AI-driven unemployment among recent college grads, new @nberpubs paper says.
"Taking an agnostic approach to defining treatment timing, we find that unemployment rates did not spike in summer 2026 relative to summer months in previous years and did not rise in a significant way relative to older college graduates or young workers without a college degree. We also provide the first analysis of an expanded definition of unemployment that includes those who report 'wanting a job' which adds nearly two percentage points to the unemployment rate of recent college graduates but we find no evidence of a statistically significant increase in summer 2026 even after adding these 'sidelined unemployed.'"
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ALPRs bring kids home safe.
As I tell @asymmetricinfo, amber alerts rely on bystanders who pay little attention.
Flock cameras bring kids home in mere hours.
"When I talk to people on X ... Who say to me: 'the cameras are useless, we've got to tear them all down, anyone who vandalizes a camera is a hero, ha, look at these dumb Flock guys!'
Take your memes, and show them to the mom whose kid got recovered because of Flock."
Me on @DanCrenshawTX's podcast:
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"We got a murderer behind bars because of this. We got this guy off the streets because of the Flock system," Indian River County, Fla., Sheriff Eric Flowers said.
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Glad conservatives are throwing their support behind this guy, he seems like a better coalition partner than uh the police
This scumbag abducted a 15-year-old girl and then an 11-year-old girl from two separate North Carolina communities this week. Police caught him, and returned the girls to their families--thanks to Flock
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Behold, the face of Flock opposition
Flock has a story to tell. It should tell the story. There should be a balance between privacy and security. I suspect if we had more trust in society, we would have less opposition to Flock. I would also note the loudest voices against Flock are the ones who want to abolish prisons. I would prefer we rapidly round up the bad guys and put them in the prisons. So, I would prefer it if we do not scrap a tool that, just this year, rescued dozens of kids and helped police solve dozens of crimes.
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Anti-Flock people really sending their best.
@CharlesFLehman How about you shove your Jew cams up your ass you pathetic waste of sperm
America was founded on the idea that a single false arrest is more important than preventing all crime.
Again, this is just defund.
@CharlesFLehman It is what this country was founded on, fascist.
"Cops should be able to buy a camera that reads the plate the government already makes you display in public, so they can find the guy who shot a kid and drove off."
"Wow. So you want a Chinese social credit score and a GPS chip in every American's brainstem. Got it, shill."
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Yeah man they did a “we don’t like it” after they compare people tearing down flock cameras to enemies of fictional totalitarian regimes.
That’s how riot ideology arguments work - say the rioters cause is just, even if their methods are not ideal.
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What a disingenuous framing of the actual article
The statistics aren't made up, they're sourced, you can check them yourself.
But the idea here — that one false arrest is more important than 1,600 criminals apprehended — is a form of anarchism.
@CharlesFLehman One false arrest beats any number of made up statistics.
-I listened to the Flock CEO on the @theallinpod, he said Flock only records license plates. That won't convict anyone, there must be other proof.
-We have no idea who gets that data or for how long
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Was just on!
DATACENTER DISCOURSE | 0x ALPHA | DEEPSEEK FLASH VISION
About to be on @MTSlive!
Scott Taylor is accused of carjacking an elderly woman at a red light and leading cops on a chase that hit nearly 140 miles per hour.
"Flock cameras tracked this guy all the way down 95," [Volusia County Sheriff Mike] Chitwood said. "Flock cameras enabled us to know what direction he was going till police can get visual on him again."
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It's a "micro-sociological qualitative analysis." I assume "micro" refers to the sample size.
Apparently you can write scholarly literature about policing after watching 17 BWC videos from YouTube (data saturation after 12!).
Which videos? Can’t show you due to “privacy concerns” 🙄
They are on effing YouTube.
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Cool! Here are 1,600 counter-counter anecdotes.
Brave of Erick to wade in here, but glad someone is speaking out for the tens of thousands of people whose lives have been made better by ALPRs.
I have written a small defense of Flock cameras. I know someone whose child was kidnapped and recovered unharmed within hours due to Flock.
The Erlichman quote, if not made up entirely, is very clearly not reliable.
@CharlesFLehman Pointing out that the entire criminal justice system is racist wouldn’t disprove weed policies were explicitly designed to disrupt black communities…
It’s open information that the scheduling itself is racist and not up for contention
You did not make a valid point - oops!
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