Police Caught SPYING Using Flock Cameras
The short version: A new video from Adrian Norman spotlights officers allegedly misusing Flock cameras for personal snooping, underscoring how easily ALPR networks invite abuse.
Our Take
Adrian Norman's video adds to a growing pile of evidence that Flock Safety's promise of narrowly scoped, crime-only camera use doesn't survive contact with human nature. Give officers a searchable database of everyone's comings and goings, and sooner or later someone uses it to track an ex, a rival, or a neighbor who has nothing to do with any investigation. That's not a bug in the system, it's the system working exactly as designed — just not in the way Flock's sales pitch describes.
What makes this pattern so corrosive is the lack of real oversight. Most departments running Flock cameras rely on audit logs that are rarely reviewed, self-reported policies with no teeth, and a public that has no idea how many cameras are watching them or who has access to the footage. When misuse surfaces, it's almost always because a reporter or independent creator like Norman went digging, not because the department's own safeguards caught it.
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This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of Adrian Norman, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.