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Our Take

We'll be upfront: there's not much to go on here beyond a title, some hashtags, and a thumbnail-bait question — "Who's better?" — pitting Flock Safety against Axon. Credit to 2200 Ent for getting eyes on the topic at all, even if the format is more hype-reel than investigation. But the framing itself says something important about where we are in 2024: license plate readers and police surveillance hardware are being talked about the way people argue over iPhone versus Android, or which sneaker drop is cleaner.

That's not an accident. Flock and Axon are both venture-backed companies competing for city contracts, and like any company selling a product, they benefit when the public conversation becomes "which brand is cooler" instead of "should this exist on every corner of my town at all." A side-by-side comparison video, however casual, still does marketing work for both sides of that duopoly — reinforcing the idea that ALPR networks and AI-flagged cameras are just inevitable consumer tech, not a mass surveillance system logging where you drive, when, and how often, often with zero warrant and zero public vote.

We'd rather people spend that energy figuring out whether these cameras are actually in their neighborhood — and who put them there. Check our camera map to see what's nearby, and if you don't like what you find, our take-action page has concrete steps for pushing back at the local level, where these decisions actually get made.