Joe Rogan on Flock cameras: "Is this really our solution to crime?"
The short version: A clip from The Democrats shows Joe Rogan questioning whether blanketing cities with Flock cameras is really a fix for crime, and the skepticism is well-placed.
Our Take
Credit to The Democrats channel for pulling this clip, because it's a useful reminder that unease about Flock Safety's ALPR network isn't confined to one side of the aisle. When a guy like Joe Rogan, talking to millions of listeners who don't spend their time reading privacy policy white papers, starts asking out loud whether a city-wide license plate dragnet is actually "the solution to crime," that's a sign the conversation has moved well past the fringe.
The question he's asking is the right one. Flock's pitch is always framed around solving crime after it happens, but the infrastructure being built does something much bigger: it creates a permanent, searchable record of where everyone's car has been, regardless of whether they're suspected of anything. That's not a crime-fighting tool so much as a surveillance system that happens to also fight crime sometimes, and those are very different things to hand to local police departments, private companies, and whoever controls the database next.
We'd push the point even further than a podcast clip can: this isn't an abstract debate. These cameras are being installed in specific neighborhoods, on specific streets, right now. Check our map to see what's already near you, and if you don't like what you find, take action instead of just nodding along to the next viral clip.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of The Democrats, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.