The Surveillance Cameras Taking Over America (Flock)
The short version: nuInsight's breakdown of Flock's misread rates, stalking scandals, and LAPD's contract collapse shows why ALPR networks demand scrutiny, not blind trust.
Our Take
Credit to nuInsight for pulling together a lot of threads we've been tracking here at DeFlock The USA — the misread rates, the officers caught using Flock to track exes, the LAPD walking back its contract after public pressure. When a single video can cite a 71% failure rate on plate reads alongside a growing list of cops arrested for stalking through this network, that's not a fringe complaint anymore. That's a pattern.
What makes Flock dangerous isn't just that the tech is flawed — it's that flawed tech gets treated as gospel by officers running warrants and building cases. A misread plate isn't a glitch, it's a false accusation waiting to happen. And when the same system that's supposed to catch stolen cars gets turned into a tool for personal surveillance of an ex-partner or a political rival, the 'public safety' justification collapses. Nobody voted to put a tracking device on every street corner that any badge-holder can query with zero oversight.
The good news, which the video also touches on, is that pushback works — LAPD's suspension didn't happen in a vacuum, it happened because people showed up, asked questions, and made noise. If you want to see how far this network already reaches in your own area, check our camera map, and if you're ready to push back locally, our take-action page has concrete steps for city council meetings and public records requests.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of nuInsight, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.