FLOCK CAMERAS
The short version: Creator Baldwin Bryan argues Flock Safety's ALPR network serves surveillance, not safety, echoing what we've been documenting for months.
Our Take
Baldwin Bryan's blunt take — "Flock Cameras are in place to spy on us, not to keep us SAFE" — cuts right to the core argument we keep making. These systems get sold to city councils as crime-fighting tools, but what they actually build is a permanent, searchable record of where every driver goes, all day, every day. That's not a safety feature. That's a surveillance infrastructure.
We don't have the receipts on every claim in this video, and we're not going to pretend we do. But the broader point holds up against everything we've documented: these cameras rarely come with meaningful oversight, retention limits, or public accountability, and the data trail they create is a standing invitation for misuse — by police, by ICE, by whoever gets access next.
If you want to see how deep this network runs near you, check our camera map, and if you're ready to push back at the local level, our take-action guide has concrete steps. Credit to Baldwin Bryan for putting this in front of more eyes.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of BALDWIN BRYAN, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.