The High Cost of the Automated Flock-Camera Surveillance State

Article author: 
Ryan McMaken
Article publisher: 
Mises / Lew Rockwell
Article date: 
2 September 2026
Article category: 
National News
Medium
Article Body: 

Flock cameras, and the online surveillance network behind them, offer many ways for law enforcement officials, and other government bureaucrats, to abuse their access to information about the personal lives of the taxpayers.

For example, a Kentucky police officer has been caught using the surveillance network to stalk women... while a Colorado police officer wrongfully accused a woman of theft based on a Flock hit and then refused to look at evidence proving her innocence... A mother and her children were held at gunpoint because ALPR [Automated License Plate Readers] cameras wrongly flagged their car as stolen...

Records have shown that police can put out a "Flock alert" to track a private vehicle without the vehicle owner or operator being the target of any legitimate investigation...

... there are more than 110,000 confirmed Flock cameras installed in the United States. The company itself states a plan for more than 120,000 cameras. That's just the flock-branded cameras. At least 135,000 ALPR cameras, overall, have been independently documented in the US. All of these are funded by the taxpayers of course...

In reality, these are AI-assisted automated systems designed to provide easily-accessed tracking data on the movements of any American who drives a car on America's streets...

It is only a matter of time until ALPR cameras are used for the following:

    Automated Speeding Tickets
    Automated Tag Expired Tickets
    Automated Seatbelt Tickets
    Per Mile Traveled Tax...

Moreover, the next time there is a "pandemic" in which the regime imposes "stay-at-home orders," Flock cameras will greatly enhance the regime’s ability to enforce its "lockdowns."...

Exceeding your "carbon footprint" by driving too much? Expect a ticket in the mail. Attended church when you weren't supposed to? Expect a visit from the cops. Attended a political rally at the US capitol - a rally later deemed by the regime to be an "insurrection"? The FBI already knows where you've been...

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