Vanderburgh County: LPR Leads to Robbery Arrest
The short version: Flock's own promo video touts an arrest, but a single success story isn't evidence that blanket ALPR surveillance of every driver is justified or effective.
Our Take
This clip comes straight from Flock Safety's marketing team, not an independent journalist, and that matters. Companies selling surveillance hardware have every incentive to showcase the rare case that closes cleanly and skip the thousands of license plates scanned, stored, and shared for people who did nothing wrong. A horrific crime against an elderly woman deserves justice, full stop, but one cherry-picked success story isn't proof that a county-wide network of always-on cameras logging every car that passes is the only, or even the best, way to get there.
What these vendor-produced videos never show is the infrastructure left behind after the case closes: millions of plate scans tied to timestamps and locations, sitting in databases that can be queried by other agencies, shared across jurisdictions, or accessed well beyond the scope of the original investigation. Vanderburgh County residents going to work, church, or a doctor's appointment are being logged regardless of whether they're suspects in anything. That's the tradeoff Flock's highlight reel conveniently leaves out.
If you want to know whether these cameras are already watching your commute, check our map for documented locations near you, and see our take-action page for ways to push back on unchecked ALPR expansion in your community.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of Flock, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.