Flock Safety Cameras Are Everywhere — Here's Exactly What They Know About You | Don't Be An Idiot
The short version: Jamie and Chris lay out how Flock's ALPR network logs every passing car, and why a Milwaukee cop's alleged 179-time stalking spree shows the abuse case isn't hypothetical.
Our Take
Credit to Jamie and Chris of Don't Be An Idiot for walking casual viewers through what a Flock Safety camera actually captures — plate, time, location, direction, even vehicle color — and stitching that into the bigger picture: a nationwide, searchable log of where you drove, built without a single public vote in most towns. That's the part that should stick with you longer than any crime-solved statistic.
Because here's the thing about the crime-solved numbers Flock and its boosters love to cite: they're the company's own marketing figures, not independent audits. Meanwhile the Milwaukee case the video highlights is exactly the failure mode critics have warned about since day one — a badge doesn't stop someone from turning a public-safety tool into a personal stalking database. When the audit logs are the only thing standing between 'crime-fighting' and 'harassment,' the system is only as trustworthy as the agency running it and how often anyone actually checks those logs.
This is why we keep pushing people to look up what's actually deployed near them instead of taking a city council's word for it. Check our camera map to see what's running in your area, and if you don't like what you find, our take-action page has the steps for pushing back at the local level, where these fights are actually won or lost.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of Jamie and Chris Don't Be An Idiot, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.