Flock Cameras Help Solve Evansville Home Invasion
The short version: Flock's own promo video credits a license-plate camera with cracking an Evansville home invasion, but the phones left at the scene did the heavy lifting.
Our Take
This clip comes straight from Flock Safety's corporate YouTube channel, so it's worth remembering who's telling the story and why. In this case, two suspects allegedly left their phones behind — that's the kind of evidence that cracks cases without any network of cameras tracking every car that drives down a residential street. The Flock camera gets credited as the clincher, but the narrative conveniently skips past how much work old-fashioned police investigation and a careless mistake by the suspects did first.
We're not denying that ALPRs can occasionally help locate a suspect once police already have a name and a lead. What we push back on is the marketing playbook: take a case where traditional evidence did most of the work, then frame the automated surveillance tool as the hero. That framing is how a company justifies blanketing more neighborhoods with cameras that log every vehicle's movements, innocent or not, regardless of whether a crime ever occurs nearby.
Communities deserve to know how many cameras are already watching their streets and under what rules, if any. Check our camera map to see what's been deployed near you, and if you want to push back on unchecked expansion, our take-action page has concrete steps for getting involved locally.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of Flock, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.