{"meta":{"exportedAt":"2026-10-05T06:38:26.115Z","formatVersion":2,"selection":{"q":"brookfield","system":"","harm":"","context":"","country":"","role":"","relation":"","evidence":"","year":"","response":"","severity":"","verification":"","view":"incidents","sort":"added"},"totalIncidents":1,"coverage":{"cases":1,"countries":1,"languages":1,"unknownLocation":0,"locationPending":0,"unknownLanguage":0,"unknownDate":0,"lawsuits":0,"regulatory":0,"minors":0,"coreRelations":0,"contextualRelations":1,"mixedRelations":0,"unknownRelations":0,"relationPending":0,"relationUnknown":0},"countingNote":"Distinct public cases in this selection. People counts apply within individual cases only; cross-case person overlap has not been resolved. No population incidence estimate.","affectedCountNote":"Interpret person counts with affectedCountStatus and the reported effects. Unquantified zeros are placeholders, not a measured zero.","source":"AI incidents","publisher":"NOPE","url":"https://nope.net/incidents","license":"CC BY 4.0"},"incidents":[{"id":"2026-brookfield-wisconsin-flock-alpr-unremoved-wanted-vehicle-alert-gunpoint-freeway-stop","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'Brookfield police pulled someone over, guns drawn, after a Flock camera flagged their car for a Milwaukee homicide.'; 'It happened at around 4:45 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 6.'; 'after they put us in cuffs, they walked us to the car'; 'MPD said they no longer needed the car or the people inside, so officers let them go.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"At about 4:45 p.m. on Thursday 6 August, Brookfield police pulled a car over on Interstate 94 with guns drawn after a Flock camera flagged it for a Milwaukee homicide. The driver said the occupants were handcuffed. Officers released them after Milwaukee police said the car and its occupants were no longer needed.","causal_attribution":"FOX6 in its own voice for the camera flag and the release, with freeway video and the driver's interview; the handcuffing is the driver's statement."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'staff failed to remove a wanted vehicle alert from the system'; 'Milwaukee police emphasized this was not a Flock camera issue, just a data entry mistake.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The Milwaukee Police Department said the cause was a personnel issue: staff had failed to remove a wanted-vehicle alert from the system. The department said it was not a Flock camera issue.","causal_attribution":"Milwaukee police statement as reported by FOX6; the department declined an interview."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'Every time I close my eyes, all I can see is guns.'; 'She doesn’t want to ride in the car no more'; 'I haven’t been asleep since this has happened'; 'I’m traumatized now'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The driver said she had not slept since the stop, described herself as traumatized, and said she was scared to drive her car and that her daughter did not want to ride in it.","causal_attribution":"The driver's own account to FOX6."},{"id":"c4","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'the same thing happened when Milwaukee police pulled her over with guns drawn'; 'towed her car, and let her go'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The driver said Milwaukee police had pulled her over with guns drawn earlier the same week, towed her car and let her go without explaining why.","causal_attribution":"The driver's account; FOX6 does not report whether a Flock alert prompted the earlier stop."},{"id":"c5","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'Brookfield Police Chief Christopher Garcia maintains that the officers'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The Brookfield police chief said the officers' actions were consistent with the information available to them.","causal_attribution":"The chief's position as reported by FOX6."}],"effects":[{"label":"pulled over on a freeway by officers with guns drawn and handcuffed after a license-plate camera flagged her car on a wanted-vehicle alert that police had not removed","claim_id":"c1","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://www.fox6now.com/news/brookfield-police-stop-wrong-vehicle-flock","kind":"local_tv_news","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read live in English on 2026-10-05 (FOX6 News Milwaukee, published 7 August 2026, article body from the page's structured data). Rests on FOX6's interview with the driver and on statements from the Brookfield and Milwaukee police departments.","independence_group":"fox6-brookfield-interview"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["institutional_use"],"contexts":["justice"],"unknowns":["How many people were in the car and how long they were held.","Whether a Flock alert also prompted the earlier Milwaukee stop.","When the wanted-vehicle alert should have been removed and why the car had been entered.","Whether the driver filed a complaint or claim; a later Milwaukee Journal Sentinel article on legal action could not be read."],"geography":{"basis":"The stop took place on Interstate 94 in Waukesha County, Wisconsin, and was made by Brookfield police on an alert entered by the Milwaukee Police Department (FOX6).","court_countries":[],"event_countries":["US"],"affected_person_countries":["US"]},"publication":{"basis":"Published under the 2026-09-15 charter as an institutional-use case consistent with the held Flock stale-alert rows. FOX6 reports, from police statements and the driver's interview, that a Flock camera flagged her car on a wanted-vehicle alert that Milwaukee police had failed to remove, and that Brookfield officers stopped her with guns drawn and handcuffed the occupants. One source, so every claim is reported. The driver is not named.","reviewed_on":"2026-10-05"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"FOX6 reports that Brookfield police pulled the car over after a Flock camera flagged it for a Milwaukee homicide, and describes Flock cameras as using artificial intelligence to scan license plates. Milwaukee police told FOX6 the problem was a wanted-vehicle alert that staff had failed to remove, and no source says the camera misread the plate.","status":"reported"},"person_relations":["made_claim_about"]},"name":"Brookfield, Wisconsin: police stopped a woman's car on Interstate 94 with guns drawn in August 2026 after a Flock camera flagged it on a homicide wanted-vehicle alert that Milwaukee police had failed to remove","summary":"FOX6 News Milwaukee reported that at about 4:45 p.m. on Thursday 6 August Brookfield police pulled a car over on Interstate 94 with guns drawn after a Flock license-plate camera flagged it for a Milwaukee homicide. The woman driving told FOX6 that officers handcuffed the occupants. When Brookfield police called the Milwaukee Police Department, it said the car and the people inside were no longer needed, and officers let them go. Milwaukee police told FOX6 that staff had failed to remove a wanted-vehicle alert from the system and said this was a personnel issue and not a Flock issue. The Brookfield police chief said the officers acted consistently with the information they had. The woman said Milwaukee police had also stopped her with guns drawn earlier that week and towed her car. She said she had not slept since, and that she was scared to drive her car and her daughter did not want to ride in it.","incidentDate":"2026-08-06","incidentKind":"single_event","incidentDatePrecision":"day","exposurePattern":"single_interaction","reportedDate":"2026-08-07","aiSystem":"Flock Safety license-plate camera that flagged the car on a Milwaukee Police Department wanted-vehicle alert (FOX6, which describes Flock cameras as using artificial intelligence to scan license plates)","aiProduct":"Flock Safety license plate readers","aiCompany":"Flock Safety","severity":"medium","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["loss_of_liberty","psychological_distress"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"The woman told FOX6 that officers with guns drawn stopped her car and handcuffed the occupants, that she had not slept since and was traumatized, and that she was scared to drive her car and her daughter did not want to ride in it.","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"disputed","participantUsersAffectedMin":0,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":2,"affectedCountStatus":"documented_minimum","affectedCountEvidence":"The woman driving and at least one passenger: FOX6 describes a passenger with hands out of the window and quotes the woman saying officers 'put us in cuffs'. Minimum 2. Her daughter's reported fear of riding in the car is not counted because FOX6 does not say the daughter was in the car.","victimAgeRange":"adult","jurisdiction":"US-WI","platformType":"other","outcomeType":"media_coverage","outcomeStatus":"unknown","primarySourceUrl":"https://www.fox6now.com/news/brookfield-police-stop-wrong-vehicle-flock","primarySourceLabel":"FOX6 News Milwaukee, 7 August 2026: Flock system mix-up, Brookfield traffic stop of wrong person","firstPublishedAt":"2026-10-05T03:12:38.617769+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-10-05T03:12:38.617769+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["flock","alpr","license-plate-reader","stale-hotlist","wrongful-stop","gunpoint","wisconsin","brookfield","milwaukee","justice","made-claim-about"]}]}