Technology is supposed to make police work faster and safer. Most of the time it does. But every so often, a computer system hiccups, and an ordinary person ends up staring down the barrel of a gun for no reason at all. That is exactly what happened to Amber Newell of Brookfield, Wisconsin, not once, but twice in the span of a single week. Newell was driving on I-94 near Milwaukee last Thursday afternoon when a Flock camera, an automated system that scans license plates and checks them against police watch lists, flagged her car as connected to a homicide investigation. Within moments, Brookfield officers had her vehicle surrounded, guns drawn, and a passenger’s hands out the window in plain view of passing traffic and plenty of cell phone cameras, reported Local 12 . The problem is, Newell had nothing to do with any homicide. Milwaukee police later admitted the alert should have been cleared out of the system days earlier, but an employee simply forgot to remove it.…