Nah. We Are Not Doing This | A Legendary Creature
The short version: A Legendary Creature ties Flock Safety's ALPR network to Patriot Act-era mission creep, warning that convenience tech is quietly building a national tracking grid.
Our Take
A Legendary Creature dropped this one on the anniversary of 9/11 for a reason — drawing a straight line from the panic-driven surveillance expansions of the Patriot Act era to today's quieter, corporate-branded version: Flock Safety cameras bolted to poles in thousands of neighborhoods. The video's core distinction matters: a shop owner's CCTV pointed at a cash register is nothing like a network of internet-connected, AI-tagging cameras logging every plate that passes, then feeding that data into shared law enforcement databases. One is private security. The other is infrastructure for mass tracking, built with almost no public debate.
The creator also flags NSPM-7, the recent White House directive on "countering domestic terrorism and organized political violence," and the discomfort of watching new executive powers layer on top of an ALPR system that already gives police a rolling record of where you drove, when, and how often. That's the pattern we keep hammering on: surveillance tools sold as narrow crime-fighting measures rarely stay narrow once the data exists and the access list grows.
Credit to A Legendary Creature for connecting the dots between historical mission creep and the hardware quietly multiplying on streetlights right now. If you want to see how close that hardware is to your own block, check our camera map, and if you're ready to push back locally, our take-action page has next steps.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of A Legendary Creature, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.