Flock Cameras Cover the Whole Town, Police Falsely accuse Woman!
The short version: A cartoon from Semi Respectable skewers how towns blanket themselves in Flock cameras yet police only pull the footage that fits their theory.
Our Take
Credit to Semi Respectable - Cartoons for putting a sharp, satirical edge on a problem we've documented for years: when a town installs enough Flock Safety cameras to track every car on every road, the footage doesn't get used evenly. It gets used selectively. Police can run a plate through months of history to build a case, but when a resident asks for the same database to prove her innocence, suddenly the system is "not designed for that" or the request gets stonewalled. That asymmetry is the whole scandal in miniature.
This isn't a hypothetical bit. Departments routinely tell the public these networks are limited investigative tools, then quietly run them as 24/7 tracking grids with retention windows measured in weeks, not minutes. The moment a camera can supposedly nail you for a crime, it can also show where you weren't. Refusing to pull that same footage for someone accused isn't a technical limitation, it's a policy choice about whose version of events gets believed.
If your town has this kind of coverage, you deserve to know it, and so does everyone else driving through it. Check our camera map to see what's already watching your block, and if you want to push back on how this data gets used against residents, our take-action page has concrete steps for making your city council answer for it.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of Semi Respectable - Cartoons, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.