You Can Now Destroy Flock Cameras for Cash in GTA V
20 days ago
- A new GTA V mod lets players destroy 235 Flock license plate cameras in the fictional city of Los Santos.
- The mod, created by artist Morry Kolman, pays players $600 for each camera destroyed, based on a teardown cost estimate.
- In-game cameras log player interactions and can be used to create a photo album of destructive encounters.
- The mod also makes cameras act as police tools, extending police cooldown periods and randomly triggering police responses with a 5% chance.
- Kolman drew inspiration from real-life ALPR errors that led to innocent people being held at gunpoint.
- Real-world Flock cameras have been vandalized in at least 36 states, with incidents involving spray-paint, saws, bullets, and flaming projectiles.
- Flock Safety did not respond to a request for comment.
- Kolman has no immediate plans to build a mod for GTA VI, joking he'll wait to see what Vice City installs.
- Recent real-world pushback includes LAPD suspending Flock use, Texas and Florida governors curtailing cameras, and 131 contract terminations in August.
- Kolman hopes the mod conveys the pervasiveness and inescapability of surveillance in a way articles cannot.