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Absolute patriot. We need more leaders like this.
This is an incredible video from Polk County (FL) Sheriff Grady Judd on Flock cameras. It's long but it's a must-watch.
"The license plate readers, known as 'Flock,' is the single best tool to keep people safe and to find those that have run away from or driven away because of Alzheimer's or dementia."
"We don't need to do away with the best tool to keep you safe. But what we need is the guardrails that the professional agencies have to include us inculcated in state law. Not just about the license plate readers known as flock, not just about the toll cameras, not just about the red light cameras, not just about the speed cameras in the school zones, not just about the cameras on the school buses, but all of the technology. We need to have robust rules that ensure your privacy, ensure an auditing process, and ensure an accountability process."
"There are those that are concerned, 'Well, they know where I'm going.' Well, let's make sure we have this all put together. There are license plate readers that read your tag number when you're on the toll road. It knows where you're going. There's red light cameras that read your tag number. They know where you're going. There's school speed cameras that read your tag number. They know where you're going."
"The body cameras record your face. The body cameras comes into your private business. But not one word about them. And they invade your privacy every day and every time there's a police officer there. Not one word about the cameras on the patrol cars that also have license plate readers."
"There's cameras on school buses that read your tag number when you stopped past school buses. They know where you're going. So the bottom line is we've picked out flock, this one series of cameras that's the least invasive of all of them."
"I'm never going to apologize for saving lives and solving crime."
It’s been two months. The weirdos have moved on. ALPR networks still going strong. Social media hysteria loses again. God is good.
This reads to me:
“The tool is great at what it does, but social media mass psychosis is threatening our elections. We will wait until the weirdos move on to the next mob mentality protest and they inevitably forget Flock exist.”
I give it about a month.
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a flock proponent retweeted
They tokenboarded my boy in Promptanamo Bay 😭
🚨 #BREAKING: American man "kidnaps" Flock camera, subjecting it against its will to 23,040 license plates per second.
a flock proponent retweeted
🚨NEW PAPER OUT TODAY🚨
In a just-published @ManhattanInst report, @CharlesFLehman and I address ourselves to the debate about automated license plate readers (ALPRs). Casuals know them as “Flock cameras” 🧵
manhattan.institute/article/…
“AI data centers are the exact same thing as Nazi Germany”
This degrowth YouTuber is actually retarded.
Replying to @CordellChomp
The guys running the trains and building the camps were just as complicit as the men filling the gas chambers.
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Sacramento Sheriff speaks up on his frustrations with social media misinformation after a Flock camera helps him solve the murder of an innocent woman.
"If we ban things like that, this homicide does not get solved. Or we don't catch the bad guy in time."
a flock proponent retweeted
Cue the libertarians screaming "OH NO THE SURVEILLANCE STATE!!!!"
Actually I like watching modern tech being used to catch criminals. Crime is bad
a flock proponent retweeted
Strange to see so many conservatives arguing that there’s no room in the movement for those who share a view of the Fourth Amendment with the likes of Justices Thomas, Alito, and Gorsuch (all of whom dissented in Carpenter, and two of whom dissented in Chatrie). Even stranger still to see some of these conservatives suggesting that violent revolution is the appropriate response to these traditionally conservative interpretations of the Constitution’s meaning.
a flock proponent retweeted
Texas poll:
Strongly oppose Flock
- 84% of very liberal Texans
- 42% of conservatives
That same very liberal bloc:
- 96% strongly disapprove of immigration enforcement
- 69% strongly support banning data centers in their own communities
Texans under 45 are the most hostile to the cameras, opposing them 78% (18-29) and 83% (30-44). They're also the only age groups with a net favorable view of democratic socialism, and 18-29 back Talarico 58-33.
Texans 65+ are most likely to support Flock, approve of immigration enforcement 56-44, and reject socialism 61-21.
a flock proponent retweeted
Leftists think rightists are evil, rightists just think leftists are stupid
But in reality, much of the left is evil, and much of the right is stupid
This flock critic thinks the only reason people hate child abuse is because its illegal. Beyond disgusted with these people.
Replying to @internet_slayer
You'll never understand that legality is irrelevant
Genocide & slavery have been legal
They locked people into internment camps in this country legally
You only hate sexual assault BECAUSE it's *illegal*
When they vote to shred the Bill of Rights, you’ll defend that too
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Replying to @WadeMiller
Flock helps the police do those things. They are 100% constitutional according to every court ruling. Don’t make things up and then argue on that basis. It’s not constructive to use fantasy as your position. Nobody will take you seriously.
Incorrect, criminals are. US government has done a pretty good job at ensuring we have those three things, but like the founding fathers said it is a necessary evil.
Still better than any other form of government in the world. Wouldn't want to live anywhere else! And neither do these anarchists.
Government is the number one threat to life, liberty, and property. The sooner you realize that, the better off you’ll be. That is, if you can somehow extricate your head from your ass
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Hamilton in Federalist 17 described the ordinary administration of criminal and civil justice by state governments as the immediate and visible guardian of life and property. Madison in Federalist 45 stated that powers reserved to the states extend to the lives, liberties, and properties of the people, plus internal order and prosperity. Day-to-day public safety fell to local sheriffs, constables, and citizen efforts under state authority.
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I expect disagreement in the comments for supporting Flock cameras, but it's simple: they catch carjackers and kidnappers. Opposing them is nuts.
We wouldn't need Flock cameras if we actually locked people up like Giuliani-Bloomberg did.
Wow, I’m shocked. The communist is anti-flock, but all the libertarians on this app have been calling pro-flock the commie stance. There seems to be some miscommunication somewhere 🤣 🤦♂️
🚨 At Socialism 2026, Hasan Piker lays out the three issues he sees as especially promising for the left right now: tenant organizing, opposition to data centers, and fighting “mass surveillance,” including Flock cameras.
What especially catches my attention is the pairing of data centers and Flock. The Singham network has fingerprints in both organizing spaces, which makes me think some of the recent outrage around these older technologies may be getting artificially amplified.
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The only reason these headlines even exist is that Flock has good auditing tools.
Every police show ever made features cops running plates for personal reasons. No one ever got caught doing it.
With Flock they do get caught. The company gets punished for doing the right thing.
The @IJ has documented well over 100 incidents of license plate reader abuse, and they say that is likely just the tip of the iceberg. 157 local governments have already canceled or declined to renew these contracts since the start of 2025.
Americans are not asking police to stop solving crimes. They are asking a simple question the Constitution asked a long time ago: Where is the warrant?
reason.com/2026/09/03/a-new-…
























