You Can Now Destroy Flock Cameras for Cash in GTA V
You Can Now Destroy Flock Cameras for Cash in GTA V
你现在可以在《GTA V》中通过摧毁 Flock 监控摄像头来赚取现金
People are not happy about Flock Safety’s automated license plate readers and the cops that allegedly misuse them. If you’re one of those ALPR-haters, you can now take out your rage in the video game Grand Theft Auto V by installing Grand Theft Automated License Plate Reader, a mod built by artist Morry Kolman.
人们对 Flock Safety 公司的自动车牌识别系统（ALPR）以及涉嫌滥用该系统的警察感到不满。如果你也是这些 ALPR 的反对者之一，现在可以通过安装由艺术家 Morry Kolman 开发的名为“Grand Theft Automated License Plate Reader”的模组，在电子游戏《侠盗猎车手 V》（GTA V）中发泄你的愤怒。
The mod installs 235 Flock cameras around the fictional Los Santos, a riff on the real-life city of Los Angeles. Players can smash and shoot down the cameras and get paid $600 for each one they destroy, which Kolman priced based on a teardown of a Flock Falcon Flex Camera by the Iowa-based civil liberties group Eyes Off of Cedar Rapids. The in-game cameras log every time a player destroys and drives by one, and players can render a photo album of their interactions.
该模组在虚构的洛圣都（以现实中的洛杉矶为原型）各处安装了 235 个 Flock 摄像头。玩家可以砸毁或射击这些摄像头，每摧毁一个即可获得 600 美元的奖励。Kolman 设定这一价格的依据是爱荷华州民权组织“Eyes Off of Cedar Rapids”对 Flock Falcon Flex 摄像头进行的拆解分析。游戏内的摄像头会记录玩家摧毁或经过它们的每一次互动，玩家还可以将这些互动生成为相册。
In real life, vigilantes have allegedly wrecked Flock cameras in their communities using spray-paint, saws, bullets, and even flaming projectiles. An NPR analysis found that Flock cameras have been vandalized in at least 36 states.
在现实生活中，据称已有治安维持者使用喷漆、锯子、子弹甚至燃烧弹等手段破坏了社区里的 Flock 摄像头。NPR 的一项分析发现，至少有 36 个州的 Flock 摄像头遭到过破坏。
“GTPLR is not an endorsement of the activities that it allows in the game in the same way that GTA is not an endorsement of the activities that are allowed in the game,” says Kolman, referring to the fact that GTA is largely about doing fictional crimes. “But I think there is a public appetite for some kind of cathartic release against these machines.”
“GTPLR 模组并不代表我支持游戏中允许的那些行为，就像《GTA》本身并不代表支持游戏中允许的犯罪行为一样，”Kolman 说道，他指的是《GTA》这款游戏本质上就是关于进行虚构犯罪的。“但我认为，公众对于针对这些机器进行某种宣泄式释放有着一定的需求。”
In addition to being fun objects to destroy, the GTA cameras also operate as an extension of the police in-game. Passing by one of the 235 cameras while being chased by the cops prolongs the game’s cooldown period. Because of how dense the cameras are in some areas, it can make the game impossible to play.
除了作为有趣的破坏对象外，这些摄像头在游戏中还充当了警方的延伸。当玩家被警察追捕时，经过这 235 个摄像头中的任何一个都会延长游戏的冷却时间。由于某些区域的摄像头分布非常密集，这甚至可能导致游戏无法正常进行。
There’s also a 5 percent chance that the cameras will trigger a random police response even if the player isn’t doing anything wrong, which Kolman says was inspired by news reports about innocent people being held at gunpoint because of ALPR errors.
此外，摄像头还有 5% 的概率会触发随机的警察响应，即使玩家并没有做任何错事。Kolman 表示，这一设计的灵感来源于新闻报道——由于 ALPR 的错误，无辜平民曾被警察持枪指控。
“There are violent responses and really dangerous situations that are created by these cameras and their inaccuracies,” says Kolman.
“这些摄像头及其不准确性确实会引发暴力反应和非常危险的情况，”Kolman 说。
Flock did not immediately respond to a request for comment for this story.
Flock 公司未立即回应本文的置评请求。
GTA V has been around for over a decade, and a rich modding community has built up around it. The long-awaited sequel, Grand Theft Auto VI, is slated to come out in November and will be set in a fictional version of Miami called Vice City.
《GTA V》已经问世十多年了，围绕它建立了一个丰富的模组社区。备受期待的续作《侠盗猎车手 VI》定于 11 月发布，背景设定在虚构的迈阿密——罪恶都市（Vice City）。
Kolman doesn’t have specific plans to build a version of GTALPR for that, joking, “We’ll probably wait to see what the people of Vice City and their local government have already installed around their map.”
Kolman 目前还没有为续作开发 GTALPR 版本的具体计划，他开玩笑说：“我们可能会先看看罪恶都市的居民和当地政府在地图上安装了些什么。”
In real-life LA, the Los Angeles Police Department suspended its use of Flock cameras this summer following a recommendation from the LAPD’s inspector general. The tide is turning in other places too—governors in both Texas and Florida recently took steps to curtail the use of Flock cameras in their respective states, and across the US, there were 131 Flock contract terminations in August alone, according to the anti-surveillance advocacy group Secure Justice.
在现实中的洛杉矶，洛杉矶警察局在总监察长的建议下，于今年夏天暂停了 Flock 摄像头的使用。其他地方的局势也在发生转变——德克萨斯州和佛罗里达州的州长最近都采取了措施，限制在其州内使用 Flock 摄像头。据反监控倡导组织 Secure Justice 称，仅在 8 月份，全美范围内就有 131 份 Flock 合同被终止。
For all the fun that fake-smashing surveillance cameras can be, Kolman seriously hopes that players can feel the “insidiousness and inescapability of the surveillance” through GTALPR.
尽管在游戏中虚构地砸毁监控摄像头很有趣，但 Kolman 真诚地希望玩家能通过 GTALPR 感受到“监控的阴险与无处可逃”。
“I know that you could read a thousand articles about why surveillance is bad and why Flock is horrible,” says Kolman. “Or I could make you feel how pervasive these Flock cameras are by having you try to drive around the map of Los Santos.”
“我知道你可以阅读一千篇关于为什么监控是坏的、为什么 Flock 是可怕的文章，”Kolman 说，“或者，我可以让你试着在洛圣都的地图上开车，从而让你亲身感受到这些 Flock 摄像头是多么无处不在。”