Kenner police issue warning after Flock camera destroyed
The short version: WWLTV reports Kenner police are warning residents after someone destroyed a Flock ALPR camera, exposing how little public buy-in these surveillance tools actually have.
Our Take
When a camera gets torn down and the police response is a public warning rather than a public conversation, that tells you something about how these systems got installed in the first place. WWLTV's report out of Kenner shows a department treating Flock gear as untouchable infrastructure, while the community apparently never got much say before it went up. Calling it "valuable crime-fighting" doesn't answer the harder questions: who sees the data, how long it's kept, and why a private company's cameras are tracking every car that passes through town.
Vandalism isn't a strategy we endorse, but it's a predictable symptom of surveillance expansion that skips consent. People don't destroy cameras they trust or understand — they destroy ones that feel imposed on them. Kenner isn't unique; this is the same pattern playing out in city councils nationwide, where ALPR contracts get signed quietly and residents find out only after the hardware is bolted to a pole.
If you want to know whether Flock is already watching your street, check our camera map, and if you'd rather push back through your city council than a pair of wire cutters, our take-action page has the tools to do it properly. Credit to WWLTV for putting a spotlight on the friction these systems create — that friction is worth paying attention to.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of WWLTV, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.