A police officer faced systematic retaliation through five internal affairs investigations after publicly questioning his department's deployment of mass surveillance cameras, exemplifying how institutions weaponize disciplinary processes to silence dissent about authoritarian monitoring infrastructure.
After Noel Pichardo called out his city's embrace of Flock surveillance cameras, he was subjected to five internal affairs investigations in less than two years.
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