Flock Safety license-plate cameras are being vandalized and destroyed in towns across multiple states—California, Oregon, Virginia, Illinois, and Connecticut—with people using bolt cutters, hacksaws, and spray paint to disable them. The destruction reflects growing citizen resistance to AI-powered camera networks that scan billions of vehicles monthly without driver knowledge. This matters because it highlights a real tension between law enforcement's crime-solving tool and public privacy concerns, though claims that Flock or law enforcement anticipated the backlash in internal materials cannot be confirmed from available reporting.