Flock Safety helps Wichita Police solve dozens of crimes in 30 days
The short version: Flock's own promotional video touts a 30-day Wichita crime stat sheet, but a company grading its own product isn't evidence of effective, accountable policing.
Our Take
This clip comes straight from Flock Safety's channel, packaging a local Fox affiliate's coverage into a tidy highlight reel: dozens of recovered cars, guns seized, drugs found. It's the kind of number-heavy montage designed to make city councils feel good about signing the next contract. Credit to Flock for producing it, but remember — the company selling the cameras is also the one curating the success story. There's no mention of how many plates were scanned to get those numbers, how many false hits sent officers to the wrong car, or how long Wichita is storing everyone else's travel data in the process.
Recovering stolen vehicles and guns sounds great in a press release, but it says nothing about whether a city of a few hundred thousand people needed a network that logs every driver's movements to get there. Traditional police work, tips, and targeted investigation solve plenty of these same cases without turning every intersection into a checkpoint. When a surveillance vendor gets to write its own report card, skepticism is the healthy response, not applause.
If you want to see whether Wichita — or your own city — is already running this kind of dragnet, check our camera map, and if you'd rather your community not be the next case study in a vendor's highlight reel, visit our take-action page to push back before the cameras go up.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of Flock, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.