Flock Cameras, AI & the Orwellian Surveillance State They're Building | Slingshot Nation
The short version: The Confessionals' Slingshot Nation video asks whether Flock's ALPR network is really about safety or quietly building AI-driven mass surveillance infrastructure.
Our Take
Credit to The Confessionals for framing this plainly: Flock Safety didn't just sell towns a camera, it sold them a data pipeline — and once AI gets layered on top of license plate reads, timestamps, and location patterns, you're no longer looking at a 'public safety tool.' You're looking at infrastructure for tracking everyone, all the time, regardless of whether they've ever been suspected of a crime.
That's the part city councils rarely grapple with before signing the contract. The pitch is always framed around catching the rare stolen car or wanted felon, but the system itself can't distinguish between a fugitive and your neighbor driving to church. Once that data exists and gets fed into AI analytics, the use case quietly expands — immigration enforcement, parental tracking, political profiling — all without a warrant, because nobody had to ask a judge to watch where you drive.
This is exactly why visibility matters. If a camera is watching your block, you deserve to know it's there. Check our camera map to see what's already been documented near you, and if you want to push back on a Flock proposal in your own town, our take-action guide walks you through it.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of The Confessionals, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.