Flock Cameras Are Turning The U.S. Into A Mass Surveillance Superstate!
The short version: Jimmy Dore and Kurt Metzger spotlight how Flock's error-prone ALPR network turned a simple O-versus-zero typo into an unfixable nightmare for one Colorado driver.
Our Take
Give credit where it's due: The Jimmy Dore Show just made the case against mass ALPR surveillance in terms anyone can understand — not with a policy paper, but with the story of Kyle Dausman, a guy who keeps getting pulled over because a machine can't tell an O from a zero. That's the whole scandal in miniature. A private company's algorithm makes a clerical-level mistake, and now a citizen is stuck in a surveillance dragnet that neither he nor the cops who pulled him over can escape. There's no appeals process, no accountability, just a black box owned by Flock Safety that police departments have outsourced their judgment to.
What Dore and Kurt Metzger are really getting at is the bigger rot underneath: these cameras aren't just parked at the occasional intersection anymore. They're networked across thousands of towns, logging every plate, every time, every location, and dumping it into Amazon's cloud where it can be queried across jurisdictions with basically no public oversight. It's not hypothetical dystopia — it's a live database of everywhere you drive, built by a company that answers to shareholders, not voters. When the system is this frictionless for law enforcement and this hostile to due process for the wrongly flagged, 'oops, software glitch' isn't a bug, it's the business model.
If you want to know whether your own neighborhood has been quietly wired up like this, check our camera map — and if you're ready to push back locally, our take-action page has the tools to start.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of The Jimmy Dore Show, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.