What Flock Actually Sells
The Pole Is Not the Product Flock did not sell Texas a camera. It leased cities a searchable graph of other people's cars. People keep arguing about a black box on a pole. Police chiefs hold up recovered trucks and missing children. Opponents hold up 1984. City managers hold up a vendor invoice and a transparency portal. All three groups talk about a camera because a camera photographs well and fits on a council agenda. Here is the thing the agenda never quite names. Flock Safety did not become a national fixture by selling poles. It sold a searchable graph of…