Flock LPR Helps Catch Triple Homicide Suspect

Our Take

This video comes straight from Flock Safety's own channel, which matters: it's a company publishing a highlight reel of its product working exactly as marketed. Catching someone accused of killing three people is a genuinely good outcome, and nobody here is rooting for a violent suspect to stay free. But a vendor's self-produced success story is marketing, not an audit, and it tells us nothing about the thousands of scans of innocent drivers' plates that happen every single day to make a case like this possible.

That's the trade-off Flock never puts in its highlight reels: the same always-on camera network that tracked a stolen car across state lines is logging every plate that passes, regardless of whether anyone is suspected of anything. One dramatic manhunt doesn't tell you who else can query that data, how long it's retained, or whether local communities ever consented to blanket plate surveillance in the first place. Rare, high-profile wins get the press release; the routine tracking of ordinary people's movements does not.

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