LAPD Drops Flock Camera Contract
The Spin
Establishment-critical narrative
Flock's cameras are a mass surveillance nightmare, scanning millions of plates, misreading data and dragging innocent people into high-risk police stops at gunpoint. Less than 1% of scanned cars have any connection to crime, yet thousands of drivers get tracked with zero justification. This technology is fundamentally broken and no contract fix can paper over the civil liberties damage it causes.
Pro-establishment narrative
Dropping Flock entirely throws away a proven crime-fighting tool over fixable contract language around data ownership and privacy terms. The LAPD itself recovered 337 stolen vehicles and made 74 arrests in just two months using this technology. The right move is stronger contractual protections and oversight — not abandoning a system that delivers real public safety results.