This Ain't Your Average Camera-Truth About Flock Cameras From A Cop Part 2

Our Take

R.C Entertainment is back with Part 2 of their series pulling from a police perspective on Flock Safety cameras, and credit where it's due — getting law enforcement voices on record talking candidly about these systems is valuable. Most of what the public knows about ALPR deployment comes from marketing copy and press releases, not from the people actually pulling data out of the system every shift.

But here's the thing we keep coming back to: an officer's comfort with a tool doesn't tell you much about whether that tool should exist at this scale, with this little oversight. Flock's pitch has always been "solve more crime," and sure, maybe it does sometimes. What rarely gets addressed in these conversations is retention windows, who else can query the database, whether ICE or other agencies get backdoor access through data-sharing agreements, and what happens when a mistaken read puts a gun in someone's face at a traffic stop. Those are policy questions, not "is this a good camera" questions.

We'd encourage anyone watching this to treat it as one data point, not the whole picture. Go check our map and see how many of these cameras are already watching your own commute, then head to our take-action page if you want to push your city council to actually ask the hard questions before renewing a Flock contract.