DeFlock reality check

Our Take

Duke4president2028 dropped a video titled "DeFlock reality check," and we appreciate anyone willing to poke at claims being made in the ALPR surveillance debate — including our own. The description is thin, so we're not going to pretend we know the specific arguments being made here. What we will say is that healthy skepticism is good for this fight. If someone has a correction on how we're mapping camera locations or characterizing Flock Safety's network, we want to hear it.

That said, "reality check" videos on surveillance tech cut both ways. Sometimes they're genuinely useful pushback on overstated claims. Other times they're a vehicle for downplaying a very real expansion of automated tracking infrastructure that now covers huge swaths of American roads, feeding data to police departments and, increasingly, private databases with little public oversight. The actual reality is that these systems log the movements of ordinary people who've done nothing wrong, and that data can sit around far longer than most residents realize.

We'd rather people watch videos like this one and then go check the underlying facts themselves. That's exactly what our camera map is for — see what's actually been documented in your area instead of relying on any single voice, including ours. And if what you find concerns you, our take-action page has concrete steps for pushing back at the local level.