Bear Brief, 11 Aug 2026

In various states, the Alper cameras as well as unassociated traffic cameras have been repeatedly blocked, shot at, struck by vehicles, beaten with baseball bats, sawed down, splattered in paint, cut off from power, or stolen entirely.

Also, I was told you should definitely not dazzle them.

What do I mean by dazzle them? You shouldn't be shining lasers at these things because it could break them.

I mean, this is critical infrastructure.

You know, in many cases, public-private partnerships, and we can't just be destroying things by shining lasers at them.

Don't be dazzling the cameras.

I would never.

Good sir.

Good madam.

I would never.

A little car behind us and probably in a bigger hurry than I am.

So maybe we'll be neighborly to them.

What do you think? What do you think? Why not? It's one of them weird, weird colors that nobody, nobody could ever ascertain.

American Civil Liberties Union, the ACLU, you know, the ACLU Senior Policy Council, Chad Marlow.

Let's let our little friend pass here.

Yeah.

Their vehicle's about the size of a size 10 flip-flop.

Chad Marlow said everyone is arriving at the same position.

which is mass government surveillance in this country, has gotten completely out of control and needs to be reined in immediately, adding that the pushback was just getting started.

You know, it's an odd day when you agree with any statement from the ACLU.

The backflash is, for once, genuinely bipartisan with groups like DeFlock, which have grown past 600,000 members, mapping camera locations and pressuring city councils.

And nearly 100 towns have already dropped their flock contracts.

In one example, when Dayton, Ohio found that outside agencies had been running thousands of unauthorized searches through supposedly local crime cameras, The city suspended its flock camera program.

While the city commission has voted to remove the cameras completely, it has found exiting the contract financially and logistically complicated.