Flock Safety cameras are solving 10% of U.S. crime, cleared 35 Atlanta homicides in a single year, and caught the drunk driver who hit Garry's wife — but lawsuits and city councils keep shutting them down over privacy fears that don't survive contact with reality. Richmond disabled its cameras over an ICE data-sharing threat that had already been resolved, vehicle thefts jumped 33%, and immigrant shopkeepers had to beg the council to turn them back on.
Read Top Post →Richmond voted 4-3 to reinstate Flock cameras after months of spiking crime — but the 96 units still need to be physically reactivated one by one. Councilmembers Jamelia Brown, Soheila Bana, Cesar Zepeda, and Vice Mayor Doria Robinson carried the vote. RPA-affiliated members and Mayor Eduardo Martinez voted no. The same immigrant communities the shutdown was supposed to protect had to rally at city hall to get their safety tools back.
Mar 28, 2026 · 4 min
One Atlanta PD detective solved 35 homicides in a single year using Flock — when elite detectives historically clear 5-8. The FBI’s national homicide clearance rate sits at just 58%, meaning nearly half of all murders go unsolved. Flock also helped return over 450 missing children in 2025 and was instrumental in the Brown and MIT murder cases. This is what 7x force multiplication looks like.
Feb 04, 2026 · 2 min
A drunk driver hit Garry’s wife in a hit-and-run — Flock cameras found the driver. Without the license plate readers, that case goes cold and the driver stays on the road. Weeks later, retired teacher Michael Moore filed a federal lawsuit calling San Francisco’s Flock deployment an “Orwellian surveillance network” that violates his 4th Amendment rights. Flock is currently solving 10% of reported crime nationwide. The lawsuit wants to ban it anyway.
Jan 31, 2026 · 4 min
