Flock Wants a Closely Surveilled World with No Exit

Flock Safety, a surveillance company founded by Garrett Langley, has rapidly expanded to become a nearly $8 billion-valued enterprise with cameras deployed across the U.S., positioning itself as a solution to crime through widespread license-plate recognition technology. Langley frames this expansion as a necessary trade-off between privacy and safety, arguing that comprehensive surveillance is required to make crime "unsustainable," though the company's growth raises concerns about the normalization of pervasive monitoring without clear limits or accountability measures.