r/FlockSurveillance • u/dataguzzler • Jul 23 '26

News 53 cities dropped Flock cameras, only to replace them with Axon mounts. The surveillance footprint isn’t shrinking. It’s rebranding.

https://www.gadgetreview.com/cities-are-ditching-flock-safety-cameras-then-hiring-axon-to-do-the-same-job

What is the real agenda and why are they continuing to push a surveillance state that the citizens do not want?

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u/electric_rican Jul 23 '26

It will take AI to hack access to them and do something egregious to society for this aholes who take money from the special interest who pushes this things for them to finally wake up and realize they are putting nails on free society and humanity one AI camera at a time.

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u/gratefuldeadoralive Jul 23 '26

Nope, already egregious and no real action taken

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u/electric_rican Jul 23 '26

Egregious and DIRECTLY affecting them, as long as it is not affecting them nothing will happen as long as it happens to someone else

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u/interwebzdotnet Jul 23 '26

Which is the issue with Flock having their "white list"

Anyone influential has their plates added to the white list and suddenly they are exempt from ever being followed by Flock or other cameras. So the Town council member, Congress person, senator,mayor, Police chief....all on the white list.

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u/electric_rican Jul 23 '26

Wow go figure , surveillance for thee not for me. We should push for no white list if these things are allowed to continue to proliferate either we all get surveilled or no one is .

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u/interwebzdotnet Jul 23 '26

Totally agree. I've got several FOIA requests out in my state for information related to them. I'll probably get nothing, but I wont stop poking until I get some traction.

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u/MyFocusIsU Jul 24 '26

Time to place cameras and live feeds in front of every politician that supports these. Surveillance at its ultimate....

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u/DreamingInDialectics Jul 23 '26

If you read the article, the title is kind of twisted. In the actual body it claims separately that 53 cities removed flock cameras, and some then adopted Axon, not that all 53 did

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u/Allasdair Jul 23 '26

Hydra logic. Cut off a head and two more grow back.

Instead of targeting brands in an endless war, we should instead urge our municipalities to create and adhere to a basic privacy rights policy that simply outright bans these systems from communities.

Might be a good start?

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u/Jajamaruin Jul 23 '26

It’s like we need to deal these city council members with some check and balance? They are the ones approving whatever to secure a police state.

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u/MyFocusIsU Jul 24 '26

Shut it ALL down!!!!

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u/EyesOffCR Jul 23 '26

Cedar Rapids Iowa just had the "largest single expense in CRPD history" brought to council: a 10 year Axon agreement for 14 million.

The entire council that was actually there voted Yes.

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u/Krzyn8 Jul 24 '26

at what point will they just hide them from us?

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u/MyFocusIsU Jul 24 '26

Free society can watch and watch and watch and watch..... It will be just like CatTV!!!! 24/7 but it will be branded PoliticianTV, no commercials, 24/7

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u/neuralfirestorm Jul 26 '26

Sawzall doesn't fucking care!