PBD Podcast guests defend Flock cameras as crime tools
The short version: A Nunya Business clip shows PBD Podcast guests repeating the usual 'Flock stops crime' talking points, with little scrutiny of the surveillance tradeoffs.
Our Take
Nunya Business pulled a clip from the PBD Podcast where guests do what guests on big talk shows almost always do with Flock Safety: treat it as a simple crime-fighting gadget, not a nationwide tracking network. Credit to Nunya Business for surfacing the segment, because this is exactly the kind of mainstreaming that lets ALPR expansion happen without pushback — a few minutes of 'it helps catch bad guys' on a popular show does more to normalize blanket license plate logging than any Flock press release could.
What's missing from these defenses is almost always the same stuff: how long the data is kept, who else gets to query it, whether local police are quietly sharing hits with federal agencies or out-of-state departments, and whether any independent audit has ever checked if the system is used the way vendors claim. 'It solved a case' is not evidence that a database recording every driver's movements, regardless of suspicion, deserves a pass. Anecdotes about catching one culprit don't account for the thousands of innocent people swept into the same dragnet every day.
If you want to see how far this has already spread past the PBD Podcast's talking points, check our camera map to find Flock readers near you, and head to take-action for concrete steps to push back at your next city council meeting.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of Nunya Business, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.