But it’s for your safety#flock #deflock #flocksafety #datacenter #surveillance
The short version: The Minutemen Report skewers the "it's for your safety" line Flock Safety uses to justify blanketing towns with license plate readers and data infrastructure.
Our Take
"But it's for your safety" is the phrase every surveillance expansion hides behind, and The Minutemen Report is right to call it out. Flock Safety didn't just sell police departments some cameras — it built a data pipeline that tracks where you drive, when, and how often, then stores that information in systems most residents never voted on and most city councils barely scrutinized. The safety framing does a lot of work to make that swallowable.
The problem isn't that communities want less crime. It's that "safety" has become the universal password for installing infrastructure that watches everyone, guilty or not, with retention policies and data-sharing agreements that shift quietly over time. Once a network of plate readers exists, the justification for using it only grows — more agencies, more purposes, more data centers humming along in the background. Short, pointed videos like this one matter because they puncture the slogan before it hardens into an assumption nobody questions.
If you want to see how far this has already spread, check our camera map to find Flock devices near you, and visit our take-action page for ways to push back at the local level, where these decisions actually get made.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of The Minutemen Report, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.