When FLOCK Gets It Wrong, INNOCENT People SUFFER!
The short version: DontLieToMe's investigation exposes the gap between Flock Safety's 96% accuracy claims and real-world error rates as high as 71%, with families paying the price.
Our Take
DontLieToMe lays out something we've been saying for a while: Flock Safety's marketing numbers and its on-the-ground performance are two very different things. A 96% accuracy claim sounds reassuring until you learn one California city clocked a 71% error rate on actual alerts. That's not a rounding error — that's a coin flip deciding whether your car gets treated like a crime scene.
The human cost in this video is the part that should stick with you. Amber Newell held at gunpoint twice in a week over a bad plate match, her kid now scared of police — that's the real product Flock is shipping to 5,000 departments alongside 100,000 cameras nationwide. When you're scanning 20 billion plates a month, even a small error rate turns into thousands of innocent people getting guns drawn on them, dogs sent after them, or worse. Accuracy stats don't mean much when the failure mode is armed confrontation with someone who did nothing wrong.
Credit to DontLieToMe for pulling these cases together in one place. If you want to see whether this dragnet is already watching your street, check our camera map, and if you're ready to push back on a local Flock contract, our take-action page has the tools to start.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of DontLieToMe, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.