--- title: "Entire Police Force Quits After Mayor Starts Surveilling Them and Tracking Their Movement" description: "A police squad in the town of Milner, Georgia resigned in tandem after their boss began tracking the chief's movements." date: "2026-11-06" modified: "2026-11-06" authors: - name: "Joe Wilkins" job_title: "Correspondent" link: "https://futurism.com/authors/jwilkins.md" url: "https://futurism.com/future-society/police-force-georgia-resigns-surveillance-tracking" categories: - "Future Society" - "Privacy" --- # Entire Police Force Quits After Mayor Starts Surveilling Them and Tracking Their Movement ![Manager tracking a delivery car by using satellite map for navigating around the city.]() *Shutterstock / Futurism* If there's one thing the rising surveillance dragnet has exposed throughout North America, it's that cops really don't like to taste their own medicine. In fact, the experience drove police employed by the town of Milner, Georgia to resign in tandem in late October, after their boss admitted to tracking the police chief's work truck during an investigation. According [to local channel ]()*[WSBT-TV Atlanta]()*, Milner Mayor Craig Timmons called a last-minute city council meeting to distribute copies of an investigation report containing allegations that the police chief was committing some sort of payroll fraud. Basically, Timmons alleged that police chief Lamar Bunn was not working the hours indicated on his time sheets. In addition to tracking his truck, Timmons told local reporters he'd set up a surveillance camera pointed at the chief's office. "The mayor's position is not just shaking hands and kissing babies," Timmons quipped. To retaliate against the mayor and signal their support for Bunn, the entire department tendered its resignation on the spot, something Milner told *WSBT* he did not anticipate. The police chief denied the allegations, saying that it's "very common" for Milner officers to work off-hours as well as outside the city. Regardless of the validity of the investigation, the mass-resignation exposes the hypocrisy of Georgia police, who have access to perhaps the largest public-private surveillance operation in US history. As the home of controversial surveillance company Flock Safety, the state of Georgia has [nearly 10,000]() automatic license plate readers in operation, which are increasingly used by police departments throughout the country to surveil civilian movement without probable cause. Whether Bunn committed the offenses alleged by Timmons is perhaps beside the point — if officers can use surveillance devices to [track civilian movement en masse](), then it stands to reason that police officers themselves should be subjected to the same kind of scrutiny. The incident in Georgia comes after a related debacle in Canada. There, a civilian built his own kind of mobile license plate reader, which was setup to only [track law enforcement vehicles](). The police weren't happy with the contraption, though — going so far as to confront the system's engineer on his doorstep. **More on police:** *[Florida Police Show Off Incredibly Tiny and Goofy Quadcopter That Fits Exactly One Cop at a Time]()* ## Author At Futurism, I focus on the intersection of technology and power — examining the economics, history, and politics behind today’s dystopian headlines. As a writer, I’m interested in topics ranging from AI’s impact on labor to startups nobody asked for. My prior work includes bylines in Jacobin, Verso, and Blue Labyrinths. My work for Futurism has been cited by publications including Forbes, The Guardian, MIT Technology Review, Time, The Nation, Mother Jones, The Verge, and Wired. I grew up in Michigan, attending Central Michigan University as well as Ball State University, where I earned a master of music. I now live in Brooklyn with my girlfriend and our cat Ziti. On weekends, you can find me hunched over a cold pint arguing geopolitics with the other transplants. ### Author social links [Bluesky]() ## More - [Mayor Livid When Even More Police Are Arrested for Using Flock Database Inappropriately]() - [Palantir, World’s Weepiest Eye of Sauron, Sues Mayor of London After Losing a Contract]() - [Man Arrested After Allegedly Shooting Flaming Projectile at Flock Cameras, Melting Them Into Slag]() - [Surveillance-Happy Police In Shambles After Trump Tariffs Makes Drones Absurdly Expensive]() - [Failing Robot Cop Company Knightscope Now Publishing Bizarre AI Slop Fan Fiction About Its Robots Solving Absurd Crimes]() - [Burning Man Has a Meta AI Glasses Problem]() - [People Taking Down Flock Towers Are Becoming Folk Heroes, With Communities Circling to Protect Them]() - [USA Today Partners With Palantir to Gain “Actionable Intelligence” On Its Audiences]()