Police Searched 3,000 Times
The short version: A Long Island department ran nearly 3,000 manual Flock lookups in a single month, and that's the kind of volume that should alarm anyone who values privacy.
Our Take
Michele Evans News dug up a number that deserves more attention than it's getting: almost 3,000 manual Flock Safety searches run by Long Island police in just one month. That's not a typo-driven headline or a worst-case hypothetical. That's real, documented usage, and it raises the obvious question nobody in these departments wants to answer honestly: what were officers actually looking for in search after search after search?
Flock's entire sales pitch rests on the idea that this technology only gets used for serious crimes — the stolen car, the AMBER Alert, the violent fugitive. But thousands of searches a month, from a single jurisdiction, blows a hole in that narrative. At that volume, you're not just catching bad guys. You're building a detailed, searchable log of ordinary people's movements, and handing it to whoever has login credentials and a reason, good or bad, to look someone up.
This is exactly why audit logs and search justifications matter, and why so many of these programs get approved with little to no public oversight. If your town has Flock cameras and you want to see where, check our camera map. If you want to push back on unchecked search volume in your own community, our take-action page is the place to start.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of Michele Evans News, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.