BROOKFIELD, Wis. (CBS 58) — Triggered by a Flock Safety camera alert, Brookfield police conducted a high-risk traffic stop on Interstate 94, but the vehicle officers stopped had no connection to a homicide Milwaukee police were investigating.

On Thursday, a Flock Safety camera flagged a vehicle traveling on I-94 in Waukesha County.

The alert warned officers the vehicle was connected to a Milwaukee homicide investigation involving an armed suspect.

Minutes later, Brookfield officers conducted a high-risk traffic stop on I-94, ordering two people out of the vehicle at gunpoint. Investigators soon realized they were not the suspects police were looking for.

"This is a recipe for disaster where an innocent person may end up shot or killed due to a Flock mess up," said Jon McCray Jones, a political analyst with the ACLU of Wisconsin.

Milwaukee police had cleared the vehicle from the investigation but had not removed the alert from the Flock system.

Milwaukee police later acknowledged the mistake, writing, "This was not a Flock issue. MPD staff inadvertently did not remove a vehicle alert from the system."

In a statement, Brookfield police said officers were doing their jobs and "did in fact stop the vehicle that was the subject of the Flock alert."

"This was still systemic failure where using Flock technology led to law enforcement in a different jurisdiction, through data sharing, pulling over an innocent person in a vehicle that had nothing to do with the crime they were investigating and pulling a firearm out on them," Jones said.

The incident has renewed debate over Flock Safety cameras.

In a separate incident near Sunset Drive and Camden Way in Waukesha, police said someone damaged a Flock camera, and investigators are still looking for the person responsible.

Investigators said someone used a metal pole to damage the camera Wednesday evening, knocking it out of service. Police have released an image of a person of interest.

In a statement, Flock Safety wrote, "When a tool that is actively helping solve violent crimes is removed, public safety moves backward," adding that the company is "continuing to listen to communities, explain how the technology works, and strengthen tools that support auditing, accountability, and local control."

"I don't know if Wisconsin's ready for Flock," Jones said.