People are getting pulled over because Flock AI flogs the wrong car #Bikomeye #FlockSafety

Our Take

Credit to the creator behind She Don't Work Like That No More for saying the quiet part loud: when a Flock camera flags the wrong car and cops roll up with guns drawn, that's not some neutral algorithm doing its job — it's a system built, tuned, and deployed by people who decided "good enough" accuracy was good enough to sell to your local police department. The Bikomeye case and others like it aren't glitches in an otherwise sound system; they're the predictable cost of outsourcing policing judgment to pattern-matching software that nobody outside the company gets to audit.

This matters because the whole pitch for ALPR networks rests on the idea that machines are more objective than human bias. But a misread plate doesn't know the difference between a stolen vehicle and a mom driving her kids to school — it just knows pixels, and when it's wrong, real people get pulled out of cars at gunpoint. "It's just AI" is doing a lot of work to launder accountability away from the agencies and vendors who chose to trust it.

If you want to see how many of these cameras are already watching traffic in your town, check our camera map, and if you're ready to push back on your city council or police department, our take-action page has the tools to start.