Cops Were Caught Using THESE CAMERAS to STALK Women 😳
The short version: Opinionated Diva highlights reports of officers abusing Flock ALPR access to track women, underscoring how little oversight guards this warrantless surveillance network.
Our Take
Credit to Opinionated Diva for putting a spotlight on something we've been tracking for a while: when you build a nationwide, warrantless license-plate tracking network and hand the keys to thousands of individual officers, misuse isn't a hypothetical, it's a pattern. Cases of cops running plates on ex-partners or people they're personally interested in keep surfacing because the system is built for speed and access, not accountability. Audit logs exist, but they're only reviewed after someone complains — and by then the damage to a person's safety and trust is already done.
This is the core problem with Flock's pitch to cities: it sells convenience and "public safety" while quietly normalizing a tool that logs everyone's movements, guilty or not, searchable by anyone with a login and a flimsy justification. No warrant, no independent audit requirement, no meaningful consequence structure. When the same infrastructure meant to catch stolen cars can just as easily be turned into a stalking tool, that's not a bug being patched — it's the design working exactly as permissively as it was built.
If your city has these cameras, you deserve to know it, and you deserve a say in whether that contract gets renewed. Check our map to see what's already deployed near you, and use our take-action resources to push your council for real oversight before the next abuse case makes headlines.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of Opinionated Diva, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.