Shawn Ryan Investigates Flock Safety

Right now, a surveillance network is being built around you, and there’s a good chance nobody told you it was there.

In this SRS docuseries, Shawn Ryan investigates the growing surveillance state in America. At the center of it is Flock Safety, a company that started by selling license plate cameras to homeowners associations and now runs the largest camera network in the country: more than 120,000 devices across 49 states, expanding into gunshot detection, autonomous drones, and “guards in the sky” for hospitals, warehouses, and retail chains.

This episode covers both sides. The abducted children recovered and the small-town police chiefs who call it a force multiplier. The officers caught tracking ex-partners, the city that ordered its cameras removed only to have them reinstalled anyway, and the revelation that ICE, the Secret Service, and the Navy were running searches through local police networks without those departments’ knowledge.

Also: how an unrelated Super Bowl ad killed Amazon Ring’s partnership with Flock in days, why cities “canceling” Flock are quietly switching to Axon, and the data broker layer sitting underneath all of it.

The technology can do real good. The question is what happens when it grows faster than the rules that govern it.

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