Two police officers. Two criminal cases. 100% AI Surveillance.
The short version: A Milwaukee detective allegedly used Flock ALPR cameras to stalk people while probing another cop accused of the same thing — proof the 'trust us' model doesn't work.
Our Take
Credit to The Alliance for Secure AI for surfacing this one: a Milwaukee detective is now criminally charged for allegedly misusing Flock Safety's license plate reader network for personal stalking — while he was assigned to investigate a different officer accused of doing the exact same thing. Two badges, two separate abuses, one surveillance system that made it trivially easy. That's not a coincidence. That's what happens when you hand law enforcement a searchable, retroactive map of everywhere a car has been and call the audit log 'accountability.'
Flock's whole pitch rests on the idea that misuse gets caught because every search is logged. But logs only matter if someone is actually reviewing them, and this case shows the reviewers can be the abusers. When the person investigating the stalking complaint has the same unsupervised access as the person being investigated, the 'safeguard' is just paperwork. Multiply this by the 100,000+ ALPR cameras now operating nationwide and the math gets ugly fast — it's not a question of whether this happens again, it's how often it's happening right now without anyone noticing.
This is exactly why we built our map — if you want to see how dense this network already is in your own city, check the map, and if you'd rather your town not be the next case study, our take-action page has steps for pushing back at the local level.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of The Alliance for Secure AI, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.