Shorewood, IL Police Resolve Case with Help of Flock LPR Technology

Our Take

This clip comes straight from Flock Safety's corporate channel, not an independent news outlet, and that matters. A vendor producing a video where a police chief praises the vendor's product is marketing, not evidence. We don't doubt officers used the cameras in this investigation, but a single success story — sourced, edited, and distributed by the company selling the tech — tells us nothing about error rates, false positives, or how often these same camera networks get used for things far removed from violent crime.

That's the pattern with Flock's public relations push: highlight the dramatic case that ends in an arrest, stay silent on the thousands of plates scanned and stored on innocent drivers who were never suspects in anything. Shorewood residents, and anyone living near a Flock installation, deserve to know how long that data sits in the system, who else can query it, and whether local policy actually limits use to cases like this one — or whether it's open season for any department with access.

Before you take a company's self-produced success story at face value, check whether these cameras are already watching your own neighborhood on our camera map, and if you want a say in how — or whether — this surveillance expands near you, see what you can do at take action.