Flock are not the good guys.

Our Take

Credit to Gritty Apostle for cutting straight to the point with a title that doesn't mince words. Flock Safety has spent years marketing itself as a helpful community tool — a way to catch porch pirates and stolen cars — while quietly building one of the largest privately-run surveillance networks in the country. The video's skepticism is well placed. A company doesn't get to call itself the good guys just because it says so in a press release.

What makes Flock worth scrutinizing isn't just the cameras themselves, it's the business model behind them. Local police departments sign contracts, taxpayer money flows in, and suddenly a private vendor controls a searchable database of everywhere your car has been. That data doesn't stay local either — it can be shared across agencies and states with little public oversight, which is exactly the kind of mission creep that should worry anyone who values the Fourth Amendment, not just activists.

Videos like this matter because they chip away at the polished narrative Flock controls in its own marketing. If you want to see how close this surveillance has gotten to your own neighborhood, check our camera map, and if you're ready to push back, our take-action page has concrete steps for getting involved locally.