1. Atlanta Clearance Rates: 2021 vs 2025 (Direct comparison showing the failure of the camera explosion)
Atlanta is drowning in surveillance. More than 5,000 Flock Safety automatic license plate reader (ALPR) cameras — and a total network that has ballooned past 28,000 integrated cameras citywide — track vehicles around the clock. The pitch from the company and local officials was always the same: sacrifice a little privacy and we’ll solve a lot more crime.
FBI data just exposed that promise as a fraud.
According to a detailed review by the Atlanta Community Press Collective of FBI Crime Data Explorer figures, Atlanta Police Department clearance rates from 2021 to 2025 either stagnated or declined in major categories even as the camera network exploded. Homicide clearance fell from 53.4% in 2021 to 48% in 2025 — the lowest rate in the period examined. Rape stayed flat at 37.7% (and dipped as low as 21.2% in one year). Robbery, miscellaneous larceny, and shoplifting all worsened or went nowhere. Aggravated assault improved by a laughable 0.2 percentage points. Motor vehicle theft — the crime these cameras are supposedly built for — rose a pathetic 0.3 points and still sits around one in ten cases solved.
This is not a close call. An eightfold increase in the surveillance grid produced almost zero measurable improvement in the police department’s ability to clear cases. The public was sold a one-way deal: hand over detailed records of where every car goes, and get almost nothing back in safer streets.
2. Change in Clearance Rates (Net Impact) (Most categories flat or worse after the surveillance surge)
Flock Safety, founded in 2017, now operates an estimated 100,000 to 120,000 of these AI-powered cameras across the country. They scan roughly 20 billion plates a month. The company loves to tout its own surveys claiming the technology is involved in one in five cleared cases or supports a million investigations a year. Those are self-reported numbers from paying customers, carefully massaged and marketed. Independent looks at actual clearance data — the kind the FBI publishes — tell a different story. In Atlanta, the most surveilled major city in America, the cameras simply did not move the needle on solving the crimes that matter most.
Yet the installations keep coming. Why?
Because this was never primarily about catching car thieves or murderers. It is about building a permanent, searchable record of the movements of ordinary Americans. Every trip to the grocery store, the church, the gun range, the doctor, the political rally, or a relative’s house becomes part of a commercial database that law enforcement agencies across the country can query — often with little oversight and no warrant. Less than 1% of the plates scanned are tied to any crime. The rest is just the daily life of free citizens being logged.
3. Top 10 States by Documented Flock Cameras (Shows the heavy concentration in CA, TX, GA, FL)
The pattern of abuse is already clear. Officers have used the system to stalk ex-partners hundreds of times. False plate reads have put innocent drivers at gunpoint or worse. Federal agencies have accessed local data, sometimes without the knowledge or consent of the cities that paid for the cameras. Dozens of communities — more than 50 in recent counts — have canceled or rejected contracts after discovering the national lookup features and data-sharing arrangements went far beyond what residents were told.
This is the soft infrastructure of a surveillance state. Soft-on-crime policies in blue cities, open borders, and revolving-door justice create the chaos. Then the same political class and their tech partners sell the “solution”: more cameras, more databases, more tracking of the people who actually follow the rules. The criminals keep cycling through the system. The law-abiding get their every movement recorded and stored.
4. Key Stats Cards (Quick eye-candy numbers for the reality check)
Patriots should see this for what it is. The Fourth Amendment was written precisely to stop general warrants and indiscriminate government searching. A nationwide network that records the location history of nearly every driver without individualized suspicion is the modern equivalent. Once the grid is dense enough, the potential for political abuse — targeting opponents, gun owners, protesters, or anyone the current regime dislikes — becomes obvious. Data that starts as “crime fighting” does not stay limited to crime fighting.
Local resistance is already growing. Groups mapping the cameras, city councils canceling contracts, and residents refusing to accept the trade-off are pushing back. That resistance needs to spread. Demand that your city council and sheriff produce real clearance data before they sign another multi-year deal. Insist on strict limits on data retention, sharing, and national lookup features. Reject the sales pitch that more cameras equal more safety when the hard numbers from Atlanta show otherwise.
5. U.S. Map – Flock Surveillance Network (~120,000 cameras nationwide – heat intensity on the highest-deployment states)
Flock cameras are not failing because the technology is broken. They are succeeding at the thing they were actually built to do: create a detailed, searchable map of American life. The crime-solving claims were the marketing. Control is the product.
America does not need a Chinese-style camera state to keep its streets safe. It needs prosecutors who prosecute, judges who lock up career criminals, and borders that mean something. Until those basics are fixed, no amount of solar-powered license-plate readers will make the difference. They will only make free people less free.
— The Whatfinger News Team: Luke and Lisa
Resources
- FBI Data Shows Flock Cameras Are Failing to Solve Crimes
- 28,000 cameras and counting, but Atlanta’s clearance rates aren’t rising
- Get The Flock Out
- Flock Safety Crosses 100,000 Cameras as 53 Cities Cancel Over Unauthorized Federal Data Access
- How Effective Is Flock? 2025 Impact Census Results
- Flock Installed AI Cameras In This Small City And Claimed Crime Went Down. It Went Up.
- Inside the growing police use and misuse of Flock’s license-plate reader cameras
- How rogue officers turned a nationwide camera network into a tool for stalking
- Map Shows Flock Camera Locations in Every State Amid Growing Backlash
- Flock Safety’s AI Cameras Misread Plates. Innocent People Pay.
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