LAPD Drops Surveillance Giant Flock Over 'Serious Concerns' - What's Next?
The short version: A major department reportedly walking away from Flock over 'serious concerns' is a big deal — and proof that pushback on ALPL networks works.
Our Take
Credit to the Tech News channel for flagging this one: if a department the size of LAPD is actually stepping back from Flock Safety, that's not a small story. Big-city agencies are usually the showcase clients vendors point to when selling smaller towns on these networks. When one of them cites 'serious concerns' publicly, it's worth paying attention to what those concerns are and whether other agencies start asking the same questions.
We'd caution readers to wait for the specifics — procurement decisions get reversed, contracts get renegotiated quietly, and 'pausing' a program isn't the same as ending it. But the pattern matters more than any single headline: city councils, police oversight boards, and now apparently major departments themselves are increasingly uneasy about a surveillance system with little independent auditing and a growing list of misuse incidents nationwide.
If you want to know whether a Flock camera is already watching your street, check our camera map, and if you'd rather not wait for your own department to have second thoughts, our take-action page has concrete steps for pushing back locally.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of Tech News, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.