How NOT to Destroy Flock Cameras Wink Wink #Chudcast
The short version: The Chudcast's tongue-in-cheek 'how NOT to destroy Flock cameras' short captures rising public frustration with ALPR surveillance, but legal advocacy beats vandalism.
Our Take
The Chudcast's latest short leans hard into irony — a wink-and-nod "tutorial" on how *not* to destroy Flock Safety cameras that obviously isn't about safety tips at all. Credit where it's due: the creators are tapping into something real. People are fed up with seeing these solar-powered license plate readers bolted to poles on every corner of their town, often without a public vote or even a heads-up from local officials.
We're not in the business of cheering on property destruction, and frankly it's a bad strategy — cameras get replaced within days, often at taxpayer expense, and vandalism charges give departments an easy PR win about "protecting infrastructure" instead of answering hard questions about data retention, sharing with ICE and other agencies, and who actually audits these systems. The anger is legitimate; the outlet matters. Public records requests, city council meetings, and organized pressure campaigns have actually gotten contracts cancelled in some towns — direct action in the streets mostly just gets your neighbor's camera swapped out for a newer model.
If this video got your blood up, channel it somewhere useful. Check our camera map to see what's watching your own block, and hit take action for templates and tactics that actually put pressure on the people who signed these contracts in the first place.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of The Chudcast, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.