Cops Caught Using Flock To Stalk Romantic Interests
The short version: A YouTube creator's roundup of officers misusing Flock cameras to track romantic interests shows the abuse isn't hypothetical — it's already happening.
Our Take
Alchemy.Gaming's rundown of cops tapping Flock Safety's ALPR network to track people they're romantically interested in is the kind of story we keep warning about, and it's not an isolated glitch. Every time a department installs these cameras, they promise the data is locked down, audited, and only used for serious crimes. Then the logs come out and show an officer ran a plate because he wanted to know where his ex, or his coworker's wife, or some woman he met at a bar was sleeping that night.
This is the structural problem with mass ALPR surveillance: the technology doesn't distinguish between a detective working a stolen vehicle case and a cop nursing a personal obsession. Once a nationwide network of cameras is logging everyone's movements, the only thing standing between that data and abuse is the judgment of whoever has a login. We've seen over and over that internal audits are rare, consequences are minimal, and most of these cases only surface because a victim or a whistleblower forced the issue.
Credit to Alchemy.Gaming for putting this in front of a wider audience. If you want to see how dense this surveillance net is in your own neighborhood, 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 get started.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of Alchemy.Gaming, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.