Flock Safety Cameras DROPPING LIKE FLIES | Here's WHY
The short version: Vee Dries lays out how Flock sold cities on a surveillance system built on misrepresentations, and why a growing wave of towns — and even the LAPD — are walking away.
Our Take
Vee Dries' video hits on something we've been saying since day one: the ALPR pitch cities get is rarely the ALPR reality they end up living with. "Minor nuance" is a hell of a way to describe getting caught lying about data sharing with ICE, but that's the corporate playbook — downplay, deflect, wait for the news cycle to move on. The fact that the ACLU has already documented dozens of cities dropping Flock contracts in a single year isn't a coincidence. It's what happens when councils actually read the fine print after the fact instead of before the vote.
The LAPD story is the one that should make every city council member pause. This isn't a department known for skepticism toward surveillance tech — if they're pulling back, that's a signal, not noise. And the image of an Air Force engineer spending six months hand-sawing down 13 cameras says more about public frustration than any op-ed could. People aren't waiting for permission to push back anymore.
Credit to Vee Dries for pulling these threads together in one place. If you want to see whether your own neighborhood has been quietly wired up, check our camera map, and if you're ready to do something about it, our take-action page has the tools to start pushing back locally.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of Vee Dries, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.