Axon Fusus in Action: The Royal Bahamas Police Force
The short version: Axon's promo reel touts Fusus helping Bahamian police solve a shooting fast, but it's a sales pitch for the same camera-fusion surveillance network spreading across the U.S.
Our Take
This clip comes straight from Axon's own marketing team, not an independent journalist, so take the triumphant narration with a grain of salt. The Royal Bahamas Police Force example is being used to sell Fusus — the real-time crime center platform Axon now owns — to police departments and governments everywhere, including right here at home. A fast resolution to one shooting makes for a great highlight reel, but it tells you nothing about how many cameras got plugged into that network, who can access the footage, how long it's retained, or what happens when the system is used for something far less serious than a shooting.
That's the real story behind every one of these promo videos: Fusus is designed to make it trivially easy to stitch together private doorbell cams, business security feeds, and license plate readers into one searchable, law-enforcement-accessible grid. It works well enough to make for a good sales reel, which is exactly why communities need to ask hard questions before signing on — not after the cameras are already wired in. The pitch is always public safety; the infrastructure that gets built is permanent, largely unregulated, mass surveillance.
If your city is weighing a Fusus or Flock contract, or you're wondering how many of these systems are already watching your block, check our camera map and see what you can do about it on our take action page.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of Axon, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.