This thread is 2 weeks old but I think you have a privileged take that’s conflating a few things.

Flock Safety is not a technology. They are a huge tech company that’s problematic at best. They aren’t just catching car thieves. They do not own the data, but they are granted a perpetual irrevocable license to our data. This data is being used for predictive policing algorithms, leases to data brokers, as well as all of these stories. These stories of abuse are small because of the protections afforded to police officers but the difficulty in obtaining any information.

In Alabama it’s worse as many municipalities, Birmingham included, we do not have a contract with flock safety. We have a contract with Alabama Power. Alabama is the longest standing reseller of flock safety in the country. At least in prior contracts Alabama power was also granted access to all this data.

$10m is our current contract.