Flock Is Watching — 93,905 Surveillance Cameras Across America, Mapped
The short version: A YouTube data cruncher animated the discovery of 113,532 ALPRs nationwide, showing Flock Safety alone accounts for 93,905 cameras — 83% of the total.
Our Take
Credit where it's due: thatRnerd took the tedious work of camera-by-camera discovery and turned it into something you can actually watch unfold — a timelapse of America's ALPR network lighting up state by state. Watching 93,905 Flock cameras populate the map in real time hits differently than reading a spreadsheet. It's one thing to know the number is big; it's another to watch it metastasize across every state but Alaska in a matter of minutes.
That 83% figure is the real headline here. This isn't a fragmented patchwork of competing vendors — it's one company's hardware forming the backbone of a de facto national surveillance grid, built quietly through thousands of individual city council votes and police department contracts, with almost no federal oversight tying it together. When one company controls that much of the infrastructure, the risk isn't just local overreach — it's what happens when that data gets pooled, shared, or subpoenaed at scale.
Videos like this one matter because they make the abstract concrete. If you want to see whether your own street, commute, or neighborhood already has one of these cameras logging your plate, check our camera map — and if you find one, here's how to push back.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of thatRnerd, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.