🚨Flock Cameras Were Supposed to Catch Criminals… Not Let Cops Spy on You. #fyp #share #flock

Our Take

Big Duke13's short hits on something that should be obvious but keeps getting buried in press releases: Flock Safety's pitch to city councils is always "catch the bad guys," but the system doesn't know the difference between a stolen car and your grandmother driving to church. Once a camera is bolted to a pole, it logs everyone, indiscriminately, and that data doesn't just evaporate after the "criminal" is caught.

The real story isn't any single misuse — it's the architecture. Thousands of departments now share access to a nationwide hot-list and location history on ordinary drivers, often with no warrant, no judicial oversight, and no public vote on whether residents even wanted this. "Spy" isn't hyperbole when a patrol car can pull up everywhere your plate has been in the last 30 days without ever showing probable cause.

Credit to Big Duke13 for putting this in front of a feed that normally scrolls past surveillance stories. If this clip made you look up and wonder whether your own street has one of these poles, check our camera map to see what's already been installed near you, and head to take-action if you want to push back at your next city council meeting.