Flock Webinar Shows Police How to Surveil Protests, Public Events

A Flock Safety webinar reveals the company training police to use its license-plate-reader network, drones, gunshot detectors and real-time crime centers to monitor "No Kings" protests, parades and other public gatherings, combining this footage with databases holding personal, jail, social media and vehicle records. The dashboard already integrates with over 4,800 cities and shares data with federal agencies including the FBI and Homeland Security. This normalisation of always-on identity tracking during ordinary civic and protest activity illustrates growing infrastructure for persistent observation of citizens.