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Flock is not the police. Their main customer is Home Depot. Their second one is Lowe's. Then come the big police department. Allowing a private company to pro
by dopidopHN2 3mo ago
Flock is not the police. Their main customer is Home Depot. Their second one is Lowe's.
Then come the big police department.
Allowing a private company to profit of holding information about me is innerving to me.
I would feel better if it was 100% run by the police. ( better, not good )
- abalashov 3mo agoAnd it's not an accident that Flock cameras were implicated in many ICE raids at Home Depot and Lowe's, either.
- naturalmovement 3mo ago[flagged]
- abalashov 3mo agoIt was both, of course, but it's not an accident they were placed there at scale.
- naturalmovement 3mo agoI disagree, I see them all over the place, it is due to shoplifting.
- abalashov 3mo agoIt is also due to shoplifting. They wouldn't get deployed if nobody could justify them in any way. https://prospect.org/2026/05/21/home-depot-lowes-downplay-customer-surveillance-threats-flock-cameras-immigration/ https://prospect.org/2026/05/21/home-depot-lowes-downplay-cu...
- kevin_thibedeau 3mo agoMy Home Depot, on the north coast, was selling off cases of Jarritos a few months ago. They very much cater to the day laborers.
- abalashov 3mo agoI hear you, but a little foray into history may convince you that this kind of two-facedness and speaking out of both sides of one's mouth is actually quite common. This is particularly true when the decisionmakers for the one (ICE cooperation) and the other (selling Jarritos and catering to day labourers more generally), and all the more true if there's revenue attached to doing both.
- ethagnawl 3mo agoThen surely they're being used to bust the people hiring them, too ... Right?
- abalashov 3mo agoSurely.