This Flock camera almost got me arrested #WrongStop #Shorts
The short version: A driver's own near-arrest shows how Flock ALPR misreads can turn an innocent trip into a felony stop at gunpoint.
Our Take
The North Group's short is a gut-check: this isn't an abstract policy debate, it's a guy describing how a license plate reader nearly got him arrested. That's the visceral reality Flock's marketing glosses over — these cameras don't just log your movements, they feed automated "hits" straight to dispatch, and officers often roll up treating a computer guess as probable cause.
The video cites research suggesting a roughly 20% false positive rate on these systems. We haven't independently verified that exact figure, but it lines up with a pattern we've tracked for a while: OCR misreads similar plates, stolen-vehicle lists go stale, and cops pull guns on people who did nothing wrong. When the tech is wrong 1 in 5 times and the response is a felony stop, that's not a rounding error — that's a public safety hazard baked into the system.
Credit to The North Group for putting a human face on what's usually buried in transparency reports. If you want to see how many of these cameras are watching your own commute, check our camera map, and if you're ready to push back on your local council or PD, our take-action page has the tools.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of The North Group, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.