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Tucker Carlson: “It can cost $7 million to a city for a single police…”

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Whistleblower Reveals the Largest Mass Surveillance Operation in History and the Coming Slave State

Published July 15, 2026 | Video Starts at 08:24

It costs over $100,000 a year on average to employ a police officer over the course of an entire police career through recruitment and training and sick days and of course, salary and then retirement. It can cost $7 million to a city for a single police officer. But if you were to switch, if you're to automate the process, if you were to get a machine to do what people once did, it cost you about 2,500 bucks under the Flock contract. (08:24–08:30)

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“A law passed recently by the United States Congress mandates cameras in all new passenger vehicles.”
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“Harris County, Texas, had over 500 murders in 2025.”
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“There is almost, if you live in a metropolitan area in the United States, no place you can go from your bedroom to the grocery store to the…”
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“There's really no legal safeguard in place to let us know or to protect us from the misuse of that information [captured by surveillance…”
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“There's been an explosion in surveillance in one specific area, which is misleadingly named automatic license plate readers.”
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“A camera, either affixed to a pole or bolted the side of a building, or increasingly in a drone, takes pictures of a license plate and runs…”
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“Flock Safety is funded by state and local governments using tax dollars.”
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“Flock Safety uses tax dollars to know everything about you.”
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“The total murders in Harris County, Texas, has risen dramatically over the past 10 years.”
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“We increase the surveillance past what 1984 describes, and we still have 500 murders in one US county.”
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“If you turn a city into a panopticon, you still have, well, in the case of Harris County, Texas, hundreds of people getting murdered.”
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“Congress has made no effort to ban it or even regulate it to protect, say, images of you or your conversation.”
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“There's no law preventing other people from stealing your conversations and your image in the most intimate moments of your life.”
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“There are dozens, maybe hundreds of similar videos of people destroying license plate readers.”
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“They think the Constitution guarantees [privacy] to them. Their lawmakers don't care. Their leaders don't care. Their police departments…”
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“Flock Safety is not contesting the factual accuracy of the information disseminated by Def Lock.”
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“Def Lock is a group on the Internet that tells you where the Flock cameras are.”
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“Def Lock thinks Flock cameras are a violation of the Fourth Amendment.”
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“It's overwhelmingly likely that you have [Flock cameras] in your neighborhood, that you're being watched.”
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“The people supposed to be protecting you, like the mayor or the chief of your police department, don't care about your privacy.”
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“Pretty soon it won't matter because they're going to be in drones.”
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“Crime stats are complicated. Cross referencing them with what we know about these cameras and where they are, it didn't seem like they…”
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“If surveillance created safety, then prisons would be very safe, but they're very dangerous.”
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“There was no Democratic input that you're aware of?”
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“He's getting rich from this, from tax dollars, by the way.”
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“It's sweeping up everybody into this dragnet. It seems like by definition unconstitutional.”
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