How do you feel about Flock cameras watching your every move?

Our Take

Bukshot's video title says it all: "How do you feel about Flock cameras watching your every move?" It's a question we ask every day here, and it's refreshing to see it land on a channel that isn't already steeped in surveillance policy wonkery. That's exactly how this issue spreads — not through city council minutes, but through regular people noticing a camera on a pole and asking why it's there.

We don't have the transcript in front of us, but the framing alone is worth amplifying. Flock Safety's pitch to police departments is always about solving crime after the fact. What gets left out of the sales brochure is the part where every plate, every car, every trip to church, the clinic, or a protest gets logged into a searchable database — whether or not you've ever been suspected of anything. That's not policing, that's a dragnet, and it was built without most residents ever getting a real say.

If Bukshot's video has you wondering whether one of these cameras is already clocking your commute, don't guess — check our map to see what's been deployed near you. And if the answer makes your stomach turn, our take-action page has concrete steps for pushing back at the local level, where these fights are actually won or lost.