120,000 Cameras, 36 States: Inside America's Fight With Flock | FP Explains
The short version: Firstpost's FP Explains lays out the scale of Flock's ALPR network — 120,000 cameras across 36 states — and the grassroots backlash now hitting the streets.
Our Take
Firstpost's FP Explains deserves credit for putting a number on something a lot of Americans still don't grasp: Flock Safety's license plate readers have quietly metastasized into a 120,000-camera network spanning 36 states. That's not a few cop cars with cameras — that's a privately-run, nationwide tracking grid that most city councils approved with little public debate.
The video's framing of a 'rebellion' against this infrastructure is worth sitting with. When people start physically confronting the hardware in their neighborhoods, it's usually because the normal channels — city council meetings, public records requests, local reporting — failed to give them a real say before the cameras went up. That frustration is the story here, not just the gadgets.
If you want to see whether this dragnet has reached your own block, check our camera map, and if you're ready to push back the right way — through your local government, not a wrench — our take-action guide walks you through it.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of Firstpost, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.