your car was tracked 47 times today | #shorts #legaltips #criminaldefense
The short version: A criminal defense attorney's short breaks down the '47 times a day' reality of ALPR tracking, and it's a useful gut-check on how normalized this surveillance has become.
Our Take
Morris Law's short is aimed at a legal audience, but the number at the center of it — 47 scans of your plate in a single day — lands just as hard for anyone who's never set foot in a courtroom. That figure isn't hypothetical. It's the natural output of a network that now blankets highways, neighborhood entrances, and parking lots with cameras logging every car that passes, whether or not anyone is suspected of anything.
What makes this worth sharing isn't just the shock value, it's the framing: a criminal defense attorney treating ALPR data as something defendants and ordinary drivers alike need to understand, because it's being used to build timelines of where you've been, how often, and with whom you might be traveling. That's a quiet but massive shift in what 'probable cause' and 'reasonable suspicion' can mean when the government already has a month of your movements on file before an officer ever runs your plate.
We'd add the piece these legal-tips shorts rarely get into: most of this infrastructure isn't run by police departments directly, it's outsourced to Flock Safety and similar vendors who sell the cameras, host the data, and often share it across jurisdictions with little public oversight. If a format you drive past that often is getting scanned four dozen times a day, it's worth knowing who's watching. Check our camera map to see what's near you, and visit our take-action page if you want to push back on it.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of Morris Law, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.