Flock Safety Lies How Police Caught Criminals Before #news #interview #politicsasusual #economy
The short version: Epic Muse's video asks the obvious question Flock Safety would rather you forget: how did police solve cases for decades before ALPR networks existed?
Our Take
Credit to Epic Muse for putting a finger on the industry's favorite sales pitch: the idea that without a Flock Safety camera on every corner, crime would simply go unsolved. It's a useful myth for a company trying to justify thousands of dollars a month in subscription fees to small-town police departments, but it conveniently erases a century of actual police work — license plate lookouts, informants, forensics, old-fashioned investigation — that cracked cases long before a private vendor started logging everyone's movements.
The real issue isn't whether ALPRs can occasionally help close a case. It's whether that marginal benefit justifies building a permanent, searchable record of where every driver goes, stored by a company with its own data-sharing agreements and breach history. 'Lies' is a strong word, but the video is right to push back on the inevitability narrative Flock and its police partners lean on in every city council pitch.
If you want to see how far this network has spread in your own area, check our camera map, and if you'd rather not just watch the surveillance state grow, our take-action page has concrete steps for pushing back at the local level.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of Epic Muse, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.