The Cop Investigating Flock Misuse Was Allegedly Doing It Too

Our Take

Thin Blue Lies lays out a scenario that should make every city council member sweat: the very detective assigned to investigate an officer's alleged Flock Safety abuse is accused of doing the same thing. If true, it's not just irony — it's a structural failure. When the people auditing camera logs are drawn from the same department, same culture, and same incentive to protect the badge, 'internal affairs' starts to look like a euphemism for 'in-house damage control.'

This is exactly the pattern we keep flagging at DeFlock: departments promise audit trails and 'reasonable suspicion' policies, but enforcement depends entirely on cops policing cops. Flock's own marketing leans hard on the idea that every search is logged and reviewable. Logs mean nothing if nobody independent is actually reading them, and even less if the reviewer has the same access and same temptation as the accused.

Credit to Thin Blue Lies for digging into a case that illustrates why ALPR oversight can't be left to departmental self-policing. If there's a Flock network running in your town, check our camera map to see it, and head to take-action for ways to push your local government toward real, outside audits instead of taking a department's word for it.