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Americans are categorically pissed off about the 130,000 automated license plate readers (ALPRs) Flock and its competitors have erected across the nation, seemingly overnight and with little to no public approval. Things have gotten so hostile toward Big Tech leering that a Sullivan County, Tennessee, commissioner was recorded publicly calling for Flock’s CEO to be hanged for treason during a recent planning session. It’s no wonder ALPRs have rocketed up the charts to join another universally loathed and unwelcome presence (data centers) as the most important issues of the upcoming November election. But even if voters were to cast their ballots for a nationwide deFlocking, the wheels of government bureaucracy move slowly—even more so when the public servants involved have few qualms about operating outside the wishes of their constituents. All this is to say, getting the cameras officially removed, let alone any ne’er-do-well execs up on the gallows, might take months, if not years. And while the demolition work being done by independent vandal vigilantes is noteworthy, their camera-felling efforts are far from a long-term solution. Even with the pendulum clearly swinging in a res