At this point law enforcement is making the argument against flock cameras for us.#shorts

Our Take

Credit to ZoomTv for packaging something we've been hammering on for a while: the people sounding the alarm about Flock-style camera networks aren't just privacy advocates — increasingly it's law enforcement's own track record. When the video references over 50 officers accused or charged with misusing surveillance access, that's not a fringe statistic. That's a pattern of trust violated by the exact people who told us "if you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear."

Here's the thing critics of ALPR skepticism always miss: these systems don't just watch criminals, they watch everyone, all the time, and then hand that database to whoever has login credentials and a bad reason to look someone up. An ex caught checking on a partner. A cop running plates for a friend. A, department selling query access without real oversight. Every one of these cases started as "trust us, this is only for serious crimes," and ended with a badge number attached to an abuse report.

This is exactly why documenting where these cameras actually are matters — you can't hold a system accountable if you don't know it exists on your street. Check our camera map to see what's been logged near you, and if you want to push back on unchecked ALPR deployment in your town, our take-action page has concrete steps, not just outrage.