16th Street Design Studio

BEWARE ⚠️ of Axon “TROJAN HORSE” , Flocks twin👀🚩 are NOT different companies. Axon and Flock apparently executed a coordinated market staged corporate divorce. Their companies broke up publicly, but the data didn't break up in order to bypass state-level bans.🚨👀 They divided the market. Flock acts as the lightning rod for civil liberties outrage, absorbing the lawsuits, while Axon quietly monopolizes the municipal police tech sector by selling the same underlying surveillance capabilities under the guise of "privacy controls.🚨 now Axon is piloting face recognition in body cameras in Canada. 🇨🇦 In 2020, Axon integrated Flock into Evidence.com. Axon was sitting on Flock's board/investment. In 2020, Axon made a strategic, minority investment in Flock Safety and integrated Flock's "Vehicle Fingerprint" technology directly into Axon's Fleet 3 in-car video system and Evidence.com cloud. they helped Flock build the ALPR network using their sales team They pulled out abruptly, immediately launched a competing ALPR product, and are now swooping in on Flock's canceled contracts👀🚨 - In 2019, Axon’s own AI & Policing Technology Ethics board explicitly banned the development of facial recognition technology, citing severe privacy concerns and racial bias⚠️ But then In 2025 and 2026, Axon began quietly piloting facial recognition technology in body-worn cameras with a police department in Canada, completely reversing their 2019 ban Axon made a surprise decision in July 2025 to end the API partnership, saying open collaboration is "no longer in Axon's best interests". That Axon won't support new mutual customers starting July 24, 2025. Axon helped siphone the ALPR data into Evidence.com. But when public backlash hit 2025/2026 (ICE access, officer stalking, 30-day deletion traps) They severed the API specifically to avoid being named in the impending wave of Flock civil rights lawsuits and class actions. By cutting the public API, Axon legally distanced themselves from Flock's daily surveillance operations. But the historical data Axon already siphoned into Evidence.com was never deleted now they pivoted to become the "safe, privacy-focused alternative," sweeping up Flock's canceled clients And positions itself as the "ethical" alternative, capturing the fleeing cities.👀👀🚨 Axon acquired Flock's ALPR data or architecture to train their own facial recognition models on this historical ALPR/facial data that they siphoned from Flock under the guise of the 2020 partnership. — More damning: is Axon is actively pushing to take over Flock's ALPR market. Axon CEO has gone on earnings calls talking about the massive influx of clients converting from Flock to Axon, boosting Axon's stock.🚨👀 So essentially Axon deliberately severed the API after their Evidence.com platform had ingested years of Flock ALPR data and vehicle fingerprints. Then staged the "breakup" to wash their hands of Flock's legal liability, absorb Flock's municipal client base by offering "ethical" ALPR, and quietly pivot to facial recognition by using the data they harvested from Flock to train their new models. 🚨 @RepThomasMassie investor.axon.com/2020-04-02… centralcurrent.org/syracuse-… flocksafety.com/blog/axon-pl… npr.org/2026/08/23/nx-s1-593… fox10phoenix.com/news/arizon…