Flock AI abuse is 'rare'—so there's a website to check?
The short version: When the company selling the surveillance network is also the one grading its own homework on 'rare' abuse, don't trust the curve.
Our Take
Flock's go-to defense whenever an officer gets caught running plates on an ex or a rival isn't accountability, it's spin: these cases are "rare," isolated bad apples in an otherwise trustworthy system. B&C Tech's video digs into that claim and lands on the same question we keep asking here — if misuse is truly rare, why does it take a report, a lawsuit, or a journalist's FOIA request every time it surfaces? A company that controls both the cameras and the audit logs grading its own homework isn't oversight, it's marketing.
The stalking cases aren't a glitch in the system, they're a preview of what happens when you hand thousands of officers frictionless access to a nationwide plate database with minimal logging discipline and inconsistent state rules on who can search what, and why. "Rare" is doing a lot of work in that sentence when the tool itself was built to make surveillance effortless and largely invisible to the people being tracked.
If you want to see how far this network already reaches into your own neighborhood, check our camera map, and if you're ready to push back on your local council or police department, our take-action page has the tools to start that fight.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of B&C Tech, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.