Flock Cameras: Police Stalking and Misuse Exposed! #shorts
The short version: A short from Revenge Of The Cis flags reports that officers at 23 police departments misused Flock ALPR systems to track ex-partners, underscoring how easily this tech turns into a personal stalking tool.
Our Take
This is the nightmare scenario privacy advocates keep warning about, and it's not hypothetical anymore. When a cop can type a plate into a nationwide camera network and pull up someone's movements with zero judicial oversight, the line between "public safety tool" and "personal stalking device" disappears fast. Credit to Revenge Of The Cis for putting a number on it: 23 departments reportedly caught up in misuse tied to tracking exes. That's not a glitch in the system — that's the system working exactly as designed, just pointed at the wrong target.
Flock and its boosters love to talk about audit logs and "accountability," but logs only matter if someone's actually reviewing them before the damage is done, not after a victim files a complaint. An officer with a badge and a login has access that no stalker in history has ever had, and departments have shown again and again they'll self-police these abuses only when they get caught, not before.
If you want to know whether this kind of surveillance infrastructure is sitting in your own neighborhood, check our camera map, and if you're ready to push back on unchecked ALPR deployment where you live, our take-action page has concrete next steps.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of Revenge Of The Cis, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.