Flock cameras are now being destroyed nationwide as people are fed up with being watched 24/7
The short version: A YouTuber chronicles growing public anger at Flock ALPR cameras, with some communities resorting to vandalism as legal pushback stalls.
Our Take
The creator behind You Won't Believe Me is tapping into something real: a growing, visceral frustration with being tracked block by block. We don't have independent confirmation of the scale of camera destruction the video describes, but the underlying sentiment — that people feel surveilled without consent and without recourse — tracks with what we hear from readers in city after city.
We get why people are angry enough to act with a crowbar instead of a city council speech. Public meetings get ignored, records requests get stonewalled, and Flock's marketing outpaces any real transparency about who's watching the data and for how long. But vandalism gives departments an easy PR win — 'see, we need MORE cameras to stop the vandals' — and it does nothing to force the policy changes that actually rein in this network. It also risks criminal charges for people who could otherwise be organizing effective, lasting opposition.
The better fight happens in public records requests, council votes, and knowing exactly where these cameras already are. Check our camera map to see what's watching your own neighborhood, and hit up take action for ways to push back that actually stick.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of You Won’t Believe Me, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.