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THE FLOCK SAFETY PUKWUDGIE: The Company Building The American Surveillance System [30-Min Deep Dive]

Underground Globalist News · 5 months ago

The short version: Underground Globalist News traces Flock Safety's leap from a single traffic camera to a nationwide ALPR network, and we think the scale alone demands public scrutiny.

Our Take

Underground Globalist News spends thirty minutes doing what too few outlets bother with: tracing how a single traffic-safety gadget metastasized into what the video calls a nearly 90,000-camera surveillance web stretched across American streets. We can't verify every figure in a 30-minute deep dive, but the broader arc rings true to what we've documented for years — Flock Safety's growth has been fast, quiet, and largely unregulated, city council by city council, HOA by HOA.

What makes this video worth your time isn't shock value, it's framing. Calling the company's reach a 'Pukwudgie' — a trickster that seems small until it's everywhere — captures something real about how ALPR networks expand: incrementally, under the banner of stolen cars and Amber Alerts, until entire metro areas are logged nightly regardless of suspicion. That's the core problem we keep hammering on. A camera that reads every plate that passes isn't solving one crime, it's building a permanent location history on every driver, available to police, federal agencies, and sometimes private actors with far less oversight than most people assume.

Videos like this one matter because corporate PR and local government press releases rarely mention the retention periods, the data-sharing agreements, or who audits access. If this deep dive has you wondering whether your own neighborhood is wired up, check our camera map and see what's already watching you — then visit our take-action page to find out how to push back at the local level.

This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of Underground Globalist News, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.