10 More Officers CAUGHT Abusing Their Power With FLOCK Cameras!

Our Take

Credit to ClassE for keeping a running tally on this stuff, because that's exactly what it takes — one-off news stories about a deputy looking up an ex or a cop running plates for a buddy get treated as isolated scandals, when really they're data points in a pattern. Ten more cases means this isn't a bad apple problem, it's a systems problem. Flock's whole pitch rests on the promise of audit logs and "access controls," but those only matter if someone's actually watching the watchers, and the steady drip of abuse cases suggests nobody's doing that consistently.

What makes this worse is the sheer scale of the network these officers have access to. We're not talking about a few cameras at a precinct — we're talking about a interconnected web of ALPRs often spanning hundreds of agencies, searchable by anyone with a login and a thin excuse typed into a reason field. When that access gets misused, it's not a hypothetical privacy risk, it's someone's location history, routine, and relationships exposed to a person who had no legitimate reason to look. Check our camera map to see how dense this coverage already is in your area.

Every one of these stories should be fuel for pushing back at the local level — city council meetings, public records requests, contract reviews. Flock keeps selling the audit trail as the safeguard, but an audit trail only means something if it leads to consequences, and that's rarely what we see reported. If you want to do something with the frustration this video stirs up, our take action page has concrete steps for pressuring your local department and elected officials before the next misuse story becomes the eleventh entry on somebody's list.