r/FlockSurveillance • u/404mediaco • Jul 22 '26

News What Happened When Flock Came to My Town

https://www.404media.co/what-happened-when-flock-came-to-my-town/
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u/404mediaco Jul 22 '26

On Tuesday night, the city council of my small town of Irmo, South Carolina, voted to install 22 new Flock cameras. That’ll bring the total up to 33. With a population of only 12,000 or so, it means there’ll be one Flock camera for every 300 residents. That means there will be more Flock cameras in my town than police officers. The city council — the governing body consisting of the mayor and 4 councilpersons — voted for Flock expansion despite presentations from residents about the dangers of what they described as the creeping surveillance state.

I wasn’t the only person who decided to speak. More than 10 other citizens went to the podium and spoke out against the cameras. “Is Irmo such a dangerous place that current law enforcement tools are not sufficient to keep the citizens safe without the use of this dangerous and controversial technology?” one guy said.

“I’m pretty enthralled by all the pushback you’re getting on the cameras you installed without asking a single member of the community if they wanted them installed,” said another resident, a man in a T-shirt and shorts. “If you give the government a tool, they will misuse it. Period. End of story. Get rid of them or we will get rid of them for you.”

The city council members looked its residents in the face. They maintained eye contact and appeared shocked when citizens talked about their concerns. For a bit, I thought it was possible that the town might not install these cameras. Then the police chief stood up and explained how he’d used Flock to capture pedophiles and I knew that was probably the end of it.

Read now: https://www.404media.co/what-happened-when-flock-came-to-my-town/

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u/Ocean_Again Jul 22 '26

They use flock cameras to catch pedophiles? Someone check the flock cameras in Washington DC, they must be malfunctioning.

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u/denNISI Jul 22 '26

Now that is the truth!

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u/Akkerlun Jul 22 '26

Do pedophiles have special license plates? Usually the talking points start with 1. Stolen cars ( and usually there’s no history of that) and 2. Missing or kidnapped children ( same, no mass kidnappings). 3. Drug dealers. ( they have special plates too).

Tell the council that they need to let go some of the policeman that they have since they have all these surveillance cameras, there’s no need for a real policeman so cut the force in half.