Flock Is Getting Cooked

Our Take

We don't know exactly what Pancho dug up in "Flock Is Getting Cooked," and the thin video description doesn't give us much to go on. But the title alone tells you something important: the conversation around Flock Safety has shifted. A few years ago, ALPR dragnets were sold to city councils as quiet, boring infrastructure. Now they're becoming punchlines and targets, which is exactly what happens when a surveillance company grows faster than public scrutiny can keep up.

That shift matters because Flock's pitch has always depended on nobody looking too closely. Thousands of cameras logging every passing plate, shared across a national network, marketed as crime-fighting but functioning as a de facto movement-tracking system for anyone who drives. When independent creators start treating that setup as absurd rather than normal, it's a sign the PR veneer is cracking, and that's good news for anyone who'd rather not have their daily errands timestamped in a database they never agreed to join.

We'll take commentary like this over silence any day, credit to Pancho for putting it in front of a wider audience. If you want to see whether this is happening in your own neighborhood, check our camera map, and if you're ready to push back locally, our take-action guide will show you where to start.