Study: Police Used License Plate Readers to Stalk Ex-Partners
The Spin
Establishment-critical narrative
Police misconduct is just the tip of the Flock iceberg, but its high-resolution, AI-assisted technology is why these criminal cops were able to stalk their victims so easily. With over 80,000 cameras across the U.S., this company is being used to create a national surveillance state — one that allows the government to collect every detail of vehicles and where they're driven. Flock is helping create Big Brother in the name of public safety.
Pro-establishment narrative
Misuse of Flock's system is real but rare across 6,000-plus agencies, and when it happens, the built-in audit logs are exactly what expose it and hold bad actors accountable. The surveillance state panic also ignores that every search is logged, tied to a user and fully reviewable, making abuse harder to hide than in any prior law enforcement system. Flock always prioritized accountability, which is why it engineered it directly into the platform.