How much safer do Flock cameras make us?

Flock cameras promise to reduce crimes like car theft. But these automated license plate readers come with a trade-off: a wide-reaching surveillance network. Today on the show, does Flock actually make communities safer?

Fact checking by Sierra Juarez (npr.org/people/1268825622/sierra-juarez).

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