In the quiet hum of American streets, thousands of cameras have been watching — and now, those who built the watchtowers have themselves been watched. Security researchers breached Flock Safety's surveillance network, extracting the company's operational code and sharing it with journalists, revealing a system far more expansive in its reach than public statements had suggested. The incident places a long-simmering tension into sharp relief: the infrastructure built to protect communities may itself be vulnerable, and the data it quietly accumulates about ordinary lives has been neither fully