Real-Time Policing in Action with Flock Safety
The short version: Flock's own promo video for a fictional carjacking is really a sales reel for a wall-to-wall surveillance stack — and that's the point worth noticing.
Our Take
This isn't an independent investigation — it's Flock Safety's marketing department showing off its product line using a scripted, fictional scenario. That's worth saying up front, because the polish and drama are designed to sell the dream of seamless, all-seeing policing, not to document how these tools actually perform in the messy real world.
What the video inadvertently reveals is the scope of the ecosystem Flock wants in every town: license plate cameras feeding a hotlist, live and recorded video pulled on demand, AI-driven plate search across footage, and now drones launched to tail a vehicle from the air, all stitched together in one dashboard for a real-time crime center to watch. Each piece sounds reasonable in isolation. Stacked together and sold as a single integrated product, it's a blueprint for continuous, networked surveillance of everyone who drives through — not just the suspect in the hypothetical.
No independent data here, no mention of error rates, false hotlist hits, or how long this footage and location history sits in a database after the fictional case is closed. If a company is going to narrate its own success story, it owes the public the failure stories too. Check our map to see if this kind of networked camera system is already running in your area, and visit take action if you want to push back before it expands further.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of Flock, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.