FLOCK: 20 BILLION Images Every Month!
The short version: A viral clip of Sen. Josh Hawley quoting Flock's own numbers — 120,000+ cameras, 20 billion images a month — shows the dragnet's scale in plain terms.
Our Take
Credit to Mrs. Dave the Lawyer for distilling this down to the numbers that matter: when a sitting U.S. Senator is reading Flock Safety's own figures into the record — over 120,000 cameras, roughly 20 billion images captured every single month — you're not looking at a niche local policing tool anymore. You're looking at a privatized, nationwide surveillance grid that was built one small-town city council vote at a time, with almost no public debate about what happens to all that data once it's collected.
That's the trick of ALPR expansion. No single town thinks it's building a national tracking network. But Flock markets itself precisely on that scale — cameras that share data across jurisdictions, networks that stretch across state lines, a company valuation built on the size of the dragnet. When a Senator starts citing the billions-of-images figure out loud, it's a signal that the scale has outgrown the quiet, department-by-department rollout that got us here.
If a number like 20 billion images a month doesn't feel real until you see it near your own house, check our camera map to find out what's already watching your block, and head to our take-action page if you want to push back on a city council that's considering signing up for more of it.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of Mrs. Dave the Lawyer, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.