Surveillance State’s Newest Terror Weapon: “Autonomous Police Drones”!
The short version: Jimmy Dore's riff on 'autonomous police drones' is comedy, but the underlying fear — automated systems policing us without human judgment — is exactly what Flock's ALPR network already does.
Our Take
Jimmy Dore's show isn't a surveillance-policy outlet, it's political comedy, and this segment treats drone policing the way Dore treats most state power: as a punchline with a real threat buried inside it. Credit where it's due — the bit lands because the premise isn't actually far-fetched. We're not here to fact-check a comedy monologue line by line, but the broader anxiety it taps into is dead serious and it's already happening on your street corner, just with cameras instead of rotors.
Flock Safety's ALPR cameras are the quieter, less cinematic version of the same idea: a machine that watches, logs, and flags without a cop ever making a judgment call in the moment. No warrant, no probable cause, just a database quietly building a map of everywhere your car has been. Drones grab headlines because they're visibly ominous; a black box bolted to a pole gets ignored, which is exactly the problem. Automated enforcement doesn't need to look like science fiction to erode due process — it just needs nobody paying attention.
That's the gap we try to close. Check our camera map to see what's already watching in your area, and hit take-action if you want to push back before 'autonomous policing' stops being a joke and starts being a city council vote nobody noticed.
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.