Police body camera video shows officers rescuing 2-year-old boy from stolen car

Our Take

Let's be clear about what this is: a marketing reel produced by Flock Safety itself, not independent journalism. Companies that sell surveillance infrastructure have every incentive to lead with the rare, dramatic case where a stolen-car Amber Alert resolves in minutes. Nobody's rescue story is wrong to feel good about, but a single success doesn't tell you how the system behaves the other 99.9% of the time — logging the plates of churchgoers, ex-partners, immigrants, protesters, and your neighbor driving to work.

This is the classic ALPR sales pitch: anecdote as evidence. What's missing is any accounting of false positives, how long this footage sat in a database before it was useful, who else had access to it, or whether a few fixed cameras at known chokepoints could have done the same job without blanketing an entire city's traffic in permanent records. Flock doesn't publish failure stories, misidentifications, or the quiet expansion of camera counts city by city — we track that ourselves.

If you want to see how many of these cameras are already watching your own commute, check our camera map, and if your town is debating a new Flock contract, our take-action page has the tools to push back before the cameras go up.