Flock Cameras Are Tracking You and Getting It Wrong (The Roman Report)
The short version: Regular Car Reviews' Roman Report shows how Flock's ALPR network turns misread plates into felony traffic stops, proving mass surveillance fails even on its own terms.
Our Take
It says something about where we've landed that a car review channel is now doing some of the sharpest surveillance journalism on YouTube. Joel Feder's Range Rover getting logged and tracked for days, a Colorado woman having to prove her own innocence after a bad plate match — these aren't edge cases anymore, they're the predictable output of a system built to scan billions of plates with zero regard for accuracy or consent. When a database error can trigger a felony stop with guns drawn, "public safety" starts looking a lot like a euphemism for risk transferred onto innocent drivers.
What The Roman Report gets right is tying the technical failure to the accountability failure. Flock markets itself as a tool for cops, but the searchable record it creates doesn't stay in a lockbox — it gets shared, queried, and misused across jurisdictions with almost no oversight of who's looking or why. That's precisely why more towns are starting to cancel their contracts once residents realize what they actually signed up for.
Credit to Regular Car Reviews for taking this on with real reporting instead of just repeating Flock's talking points. If you want to see whether your own neighborhood has one of these cameras watching your daily commute, check our camera map, and if you're ready to push back locally, our take-action guide walks you through it.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of Regular Car Reviews, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.