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Our Take

Credit where it's due: Kits News and writer Joseph Rogers packed a whole thesis into a 60-second short. "They never sleep, they never stop" is a great tagline for a true-crime reel — and it's also, whether the creator intends it or not, a pretty accurate description of what Flock's ALPR network actually does to every driver, not just suspects. That's the line worth sitting with after the AI-generated cop-show visuals fade.

The genre here is part of the problem. True-crime content thrives on the idea that more cameras equal more justice, full stop. What gets left out of a punchy short is the part where these systems log the movements of millions of innocent people, store that data for weeks or months, and get shared across agencies and, in some documented cases, with outside parties well beyond the original purpose. "Rolling" cameras aren't just catching bad guys — they're building a permanent, searchable record of where everyone goes, all the time.

We're not here to dunk on a small channel finding an audience with slick visuals — we're here to point out that the aesthetic does a lot of quiet work normalizing mass surveillance as background noise. If a video like this makes you wonder how many of these cameras are actually near you, check our camera map, and if you want to push back on a system that never blinks, see what you can do at take action.