License Plate Recognition Cameras
License Plate Recognition Cameras
License plate readers play a critical role in the national crime and safety conversation. This is true especially as communities, businesses, and public safety institutions increasingly rely on technology to drive insights to generate leads and solve and prevent criminal activities.
License Plate Recognition Cameras
License plate readers play a critical role in the national crime and safety conversation. This is true especially as communities, businesses, and public safety institutions increasingly rely on technology to drive insights to generate leads and solve and prevent criminal activities.
Reduce crime one license plate at a time
License plate recognition (LPR) cameras can be placed almost anywhere to capture detailed data about license plates and vehicles used to commit crimes, enabling quick and efficient action.
In one study, 97% of motor vehicle thieves were also charged with other crimes. Motor vehicle thefts are called a “keystone crime” by the Council on Criminal Justice because they so often are used to facilitate the commission of other, more serious offenses.
Unlike reactive security systems, license plate recognition (LPR) systems provide proactive, data-driven, actionable evidence.
Here’s why license plate recognition matters:
- In many cases, a license plate number is a crucial pieve of evidence law enforcement can use to pursue an investigation. A license plate is objective, actionable, and discrete.
- Alerting police when a stolen or known suspect vehicle enters a community can prevent further crime before it happens.
License plate recognition will continue to play a critical role in the national crime and safety conversation. This is true especially as communities, businesses, and public safety institutions increasingly rely on technology to drive insights to generate leads and solve and prevent criminal activities.
Why License Plates Matter
According to the most recent FBI crime clearance data available, less than 50% of violent crime gets solved. Police are understaffed, have too many cases on their desks, and lack actionable evidence — like a license plate number. That’s why Flock Safety built a solution that focuses on license plate recognition (LPR) and Vehicle Fingerprint™ technology.
A license plate gives authorities a clear direction in their investigation. It’s also linked to the history of the vehicle, so if the vehicle or plates have been stolen, law enforcement can act on that information.
Unlike historically-biased eyewitness testimony, a license plate number eliminates the potential for bias or false identifications.
How License Plate Recognition Cameras Enhance Security
- Instantly searchable data, including plate numbers or missing/covered plates, as well as vehicle make, model, color, alterations, and other unique identifying information. With a standard camera, you have to go through hours of footage to find the captured crime.
- Integration with local law enforcement to identify vehicles involved in crimes from retail theft to amber alerts. When the camera identifies a flagged license plate, the camera will notify the authorities automatically, with no action needed by the camera owner.
- Actionable evidence to bring to the authorities. Providing objective evidence mitigates bias and gives law enforcement what they need to quickly and effectively investigate a crime.
- 24/7 protection. Even full-time security guards can’t monitor the entirety of a property. And if a crime does occur on their watch, actionable evidence is not always available to make an arrest.
The benefits of license plate recognition technology extend to many individuals within a community, from law enforcement and business owners, to neighborhoods, schools, and beyond.
Neighborhoods, Gated Communities, and HOAs
Homeowners associations charged with providing security services for neighborhood spaces must review and evaluate a wide array of options for securing their communities.
Communities often decide between traditional security options such as gates, lighting, and security patrols. Many residents already use personal security devices like smart doorbells, cameras, alarm systems, and motion sensor-activated outdoor lighting.
As a way to supplement these traditional security measures, license plate recognition cameras can fill in any security gaps and bolster evidence in the event of a crime. They also minimize the risk to residents, security personnel, and neighborhood watch volunteers by reducing the need for face-to-face confrontation and providing 24/7 protection.
The Flock Safety Advantage for Neighborhoods
- Flock Safety’s camera systems are hassle-free. Cameras are leased, so your neighborhood always has the latest model.
- Flock cameras are budget-friendly and run primarily on LTE and solar panels, ensuring no hidden costs. You don’t need to run electricity, wifi, or anything else to them.
- Flock Safety cameras are discretely designed, so they don't compromise the neighborhood aesthetic.
- Flock respects your privacy. The encrypted data collected is 100% owned by your HOA or community and is only kept for 30 days by default.
Learn more about how Flock Safety can help your neighborhood work with law enforcement to reduce crime rates, protect home values, and give your residents peace of mind.
Commercial Businesses
Retail theft is a growing issue for retailers of all sizes. The National Retail Foundation found that organized retail crime (ORC) rose by almost 20% from 2021 to 2022. Businesses may struggle to prevent thefts and have limited ability to track down suspects after the fact, even with in-store video footage.
The same survey also showed that 88% of retailers note that, in general, shoplifters exhibit “somewhat more” or “much more” aggressive and violent behavior compared to the previous year.
Facing a growing threat of shoplifting, robbery, cyber theft, and violent crimes, half of the survey respondents said they would add technology resources for their security needs. A license plate recognition camera allows a business to link a shoplifter or other suspect to a vehicle, making it more likely they can be identified and arrested.
Crimes also happen outside businesses, such as parking lot smash-and-grabs, which LPR cameras can help prevent and solve. If an unauthorized person enters the premises, LPR cameras can alert administrators to prevent any unwanted confrontation.
The Flock Safety Advantage for Businesses
- Cameras run on solar power and LTE for easy installation almost anywhere on your property, with no additional utility bills or IT integration.
- Place at-risk vehicles on a Custom Hot List to get automatic alerts when they drive by your cameras.
- Easily search all of your footage based on time, location and detailed vehicle criteria.
- Option to share evidence and alerts from your cameras with local law enforcement so they can act quickly if an incident occurs.
Learn more about how Flock Safety can help your business reduce crime, improve customer experience, and keep employees safe.
Apartment Complexes
If you’re managing apartments or other rental properties, resident safety is a top priority for retention and reputation. Crime and a high rate of resident turnover can be extremely costly.
Implementing license plate recognition cameras can help prevent these issues and provide protection for your residents, leading to a safe community and satisfied residents.
Property managers have to juggle various responsibilities with multiple units or properties. LPR cameras can help reduce the burden by automatically alerting authorities when a crime occurs and producing actionable evidence without the need to sift through hours and hours of CCTV footage.
The Flock Safety Advantage for Property Managers
- Flock takes care of hardware, permitting, installation, maintenance and software training for a single annual subscription price.
- Flock cameras are solar-powered and run on LTE, which means they do not increase utility costs or rely on potentially unstable Wi-Fi.
- License plate reading cameras capture vehicle data day and night, and automatically alert law enforcement if a wanted vehicle passes by.
Learn more about how Flock Safety helps improve resident safety, satisfaction, and retention while reducing crime rates and protecting your investment.
Improvement Districts
Often, business and property owners will join an improvement district in an effort to help maintain and promote a safe and thriving community for businesses, visitors, and residents. Reducing crime and increasing safety are among the top priorities for such improvement districts, ultimately leading to higher property values, better business development opportunities, and happier residents and customers.
License plate recognition technology can monitor the area and reduce crime by creating a security presence. LPR cameras run unattended 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, handling high volumes of traffic and license plates.
Additionally, LPR camera systems can be shared with law enforcement, allowing them to take immediate action when an at-risk vehicle is detected.
The Flock Safety Advantage for Improvement Districts
- Hardware, permitting, installation, maintenance and software are handled by Flock.
- Flock Safety cameras run on solar power and LTE for easy installation almost anywhere with no additional utility bills.
- Flock Safety data can be shared with law enforcement, providing footage that is searchable and easy to sift through.
Learn more about how Flock Safety helps Improvement Districts by reducing crime.
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Success With Flock Safety
Flock Safety’s license plate recognition camera systems are helping create safer communities across the United States. Flock is present in 49 states and thousands of cities.
Police departments across the country are seeing success using Flock Safety cameras, such as Gwinnett Police, who in 2021 used Flock LPRs to recover 104 stolen vehicles that were worth a total of $1.47 million, locate 93 wanted persons, and assist in a 53% decrease in commercial burglaries in one year.
- Cobb County Police attribute a 100% homicide clearance rate over 2 years in part to Flock LPR cameras.
- Castle Rock, CO saw a 25% decrease in auto thefts in 2021 followed by a 15% decrease in 2022, for a total of a 40% reduction in car theft after installing Flock cameras.
- Peoria Police Department reported that shooting incidents declined 28 percent, shooting victims declined 26 percent and shooting murders dropped 26 percent from 2021 to 2022 after deploying Flock cameras.
Whether you’re a business owner, HOA board member, property manager, law enforcement officer, or other professional seeking to protect yourself and your community, Flock Safety will help improve security and lower crime rates.
Book a free demo today to see how Flock Safety can help reduce crime and protect your community.
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Flock Safety is an all-in-one technology solution to eliminate crime and keep your community safe. Our intelligent platform combines the power of communities at scale - including cities, businesses, schools, and law enforcement agencies - to shape a safer future together. Our full-service, maintenance-free technology solution is trusted by more than 4,000 communities across the country to help solve and deter crime in the pursuit of safer communities for everyone. Visit www.flocksafety.com for more info.
Reduce crime one license plate at a time
License plate recognition (LPR) cameras can be placed almost anywhere to capture detailed data about license plates and vehicles used to commit crimes, enabling quick and efficient action.
In one study, 97% of motor vehicle thieves were also charged with other crimes. Motor vehicle thefts are called a “keystone crime” by the Council on Criminal Justice because they so often are used to facilitate the commission of other, more serious offenses.
Unlike reactive security systems, license plate recognition (LPR) systems provide proactive, data-driven, actionable evidence.
Here’s why license plate recognition matters:
- In many cases, a license plate number is a crucial pieve of evidence law enforcement can use to pursue an investigation. A license plate is objective, actionable, and discrete.
- Alerting police when a stolen or known suspect vehicle enters a community can prevent further crime before it happens.
License plate recognition will continue to play a critical role in the national crime and safety conversation. This is true especially as communities, businesses, and public safety institutions increasingly rely on technology to drive insights to generate leads and solve and prevent criminal activities.
Why License Plates Matter
According to the most recent FBI crime clearance data available, less than 50% of violent crime gets solved. Police are understaffed, have too many cases on their desks, and lack actionable evidence — like a license plate number. That’s why Flock Safety built a solution that focuses on license plate recognition (LPR) and Vehicle Fingerprint™ technology.
A license plate gives authorities a clear direction in their investigation. It’s also linked to the history of the vehicle, so if the vehicle or plates have been stolen, law enforcement can act on that information.
Unlike historically-biased eyewitness testimony, a license plate number eliminates the potential for bias or false identifications.
How License Plate Recognition Cameras Enhance Security
- Instantly searchable data, including plate numbers or missing/covered plates, as well as vehicle make, model, color, alterations, and other unique identifying information. With a standard camera, you have to go through hours of footage to find the captured crime.
- Integration with local law enforcement to identify vehicles involved in crimes from retail theft to amber alerts. When the camera identifies a flagged license plate, the camera will notify the authorities automatically, with no action needed by the camera owner.
- Actionable evidence to bring to the authorities. Providing objective evidence mitigates bias and gives law enforcement what they need to quickly and effectively investigate a crime.
- 24/7 protection. Even full-time security guards can’t monitor the entirety of a property. And if a crime does occur on their watch, actionable evidence is not always available to make an arrest.
The benefits of license plate recognition technology extend to many individuals within a community, from law enforcement and business owners, to neighborhoods, schools, and beyond.
Neighborhoods, Gated Communities, and HOAs
Homeowners associations charged with providing security services for neighborhood spaces must review and evaluate a wide array of options for securing their communities.
Communities often decide between traditional security options such as gates, lighting, and security patrols. Many residents already use personal security devices like smart doorbells, cameras, alarm systems, and motion sensor-activated outdoor lighting.
As a way to supplement these traditional security measures, license plate recognition cameras can fill in any security gaps and bolster evidence in the event of a crime. They also minimize the risk to residents, security personnel, and neighborhood watch volunteers by reducing the need for face-to-face confrontation and providing 24/7 protection.
The Flock Safety Advantage for Neighborhoods
- Flock Safety’s camera systems are hassle-free. Cameras are leased, so your neighborhood always has the latest model.
- Flock cameras are budget-friendly and run primarily on LTE and solar panels, ensuring no hidden costs. You don’t need to run electricity, wifi, or anything else to them.
- Flock Safety cameras are discretely designed, so they don't compromise the neighborhood aesthetic.
- Flock respects your privacy. The encrypted data collected is 100% owned by your HOA or community and is only kept for 30 days by default.
Learn more about how Flock Safety can help your neighborhood work with law enforcement to reduce crime rates, protect home values, and give your residents peace of mind.
Commercial Businesses
Retail theft is a growing issue for retailers of all sizes. The National Retail Foundation found that organized retail crime (ORC) rose by almost 20% from 2021 to 2022. Businesses may struggle to prevent thefts and have limited ability to track down suspects after the fact, even with in-store video footage.
The same survey also showed that 88% of retailers note that, in general, shoplifters exhibit “somewhat more” or “much more” aggressive and violent behavior compared to the previous year.
Facing a growing threat of shoplifting, robbery, cyber theft, and violent crimes, half of the survey respondents said they would add technology resources for their security needs. A license plate recognition camera allows a business to link a shoplifter or other suspect to a vehicle, making it more likely they can be identified and arrested.
Crimes also happen outside businesses, such as parking lot smash-and-grabs, which LPR cameras can help prevent and solve. If an unauthorized person enters the premises, LPR cameras can alert administrators to prevent any unwanted confrontation.
The Flock Safety Advantage for Businesses
- Cameras run on solar power and LTE for easy installation almost anywhere on your property, with no additional utility bills or IT integration.
- Place at-risk vehicles on a Custom Hot List to get automatic alerts when they drive by your cameras.
- Easily search all of your footage based on time, location and detailed vehicle criteria.
- Option to share evidence and alerts from your cameras with local law enforcement so they can act quickly if an incident occurs.
Learn more about how Flock Safety can help your business reduce crime, improve customer experience, and keep employees safe.
Apartment Complexes
If you’re managing apartments or other rental properties, resident safety is a top priority for retention and reputation. Crime and a high rate of resident turnover can be extremely costly.
Implementing license plate recognition cameras can help prevent these issues and provide protection for your residents, leading to a safe community and satisfied residents.
Property managers have to juggle various responsibilities with multiple units or properties. LPR cameras can help reduce the burden by automatically alerting authorities when a crime occurs and producing actionable evidence without the need to sift through hours and hours of CCTV footage.
The Flock Safety Advantage for Property Managers
- Flock takes care of hardware, permitting, installation, maintenance and software training for a single annual subscription price.
- Flock cameras are solar-powered and run on LTE, which means they do not increase utility costs or rely on potentially unstable Wi-Fi.
- License plate reading cameras capture vehicle data day and night, and automatically alert law enforcement if a wanted vehicle passes by.
Learn more about how Flock Safety helps improve resident safety, satisfaction, and retention while reducing crime rates and protecting your investment.
Improvement Districts
Often, business and property owners will join an improvement district in an effort to help maintain and promote a safe and thriving community for businesses, visitors, and residents. Reducing crime and increasing safety are among the top priorities for such improvement districts, ultimately leading to higher property values, better business development opportunities, and happier residents and customers.
License plate recognition technology can monitor the area and reduce crime by creating a security presence. LPR cameras run unattended 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, handling high volumes of traffic and license plates.
Additionally, LPR camera systems can be shared with law enforcement, allowing them to take immediate action when an at-risk vehicle is detected.
The Flock Safety Advantage for Improvement Districts
- Hardware, permitting, installation, maintenance and software are handled by Flock.
- Flock Safety cameras run on solar power and LTE for easy installation almost anywhere with no additional utility bills.
- Flock Safety data can be shared with law enforcement, providing footage that is searchable and easy to sift through.
Learn more about how Flock Safety helps Improvement Districts by reducing crime.
Success With Flock Safety
Flock Safety’s license plate recognition camera systems are helping create safer communities across the United States. Flock is present in 49 states and thousands of cities.
Police departments across the country are seeing success using Flock Safety cameras, such as Gwinnett Police, who in 2021 used Flock LPRs to recover 104 stolen vehicles that were worth a total of $1.47 million, locate 93 wanted persons, and assist in a 53% decrease in commercial burglaries in one year.
- Cobb County Police attribute a 100% homicide clearance rate over 2 years in part to Flock LPR cameras.
- Castle Rock, CO saw a 25% decrease in auto thefts in 2021 followed by a 15% decrease in 2022, for a total of a 40% reduction in car theft after installing Flock cameras.
- Peoria Police Department reported that shooting incidents declined 28 percent, shooting victims declined 26 percent and shooting murders dropped 26 percent from 2021 to 2022 after deploying Flock cameras.
Whether you’re a business owner, HOA board member, property manager, law enforcement officer, or other professional seeking to protect yourself and your community, Flock Safety will help improve security and lower crime rates.
Book a free demo today to see how Flock Safety can help reduce crime and protect your community.
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Flock Safety is an all-in-one technology solution to eliminate crime and keep your community safe. Our intelligent platform combines the power of communities at scale - including cities, businesses, schools, and law enforcement agencies - to shape a safer future together. Our full-service, maintenance-free technology solution is trusted by more than 4,000 communities across the country to help solve and deter crime in the pursuit of safer communities for everyone. Visit www.flocksafety.com for more info.
License Plate Recognition Cameras
License plate readers play a critical role in the national crime and safety conversation. This is true especially as communities, businesses, and public safety institutions increasingly rely on technology to drive insights to generate leads and solve and prevent criminal activities.
Reduce crime one license plate at a time
License plate recognition (LPR) cameras can be placed almost anywhere to capture detailed data about license plates and vehicles used to commit crimes, enabling quick and efficient action.
In one study, 97% of motor vehicle thieves were also charged with other crimes. Motor vehicle thefts are called a “keystone crime” by the Council on Criminal Justice because they so often are used to facilitate the commission of other, more serious offenses.
Unlike reactive security systems, license plate recognition (LPR) systems provide proactive, data-driven, actionable evidence.
Here’s why license plate recognition matters:
- In many cases, a license plate number is a crucial pieve of evidence law enforcement can use to pursue an investigation. A license plate is objective, actionable, and discrete.
- Alerting police when a stolen or known suspect vehicle enters a community can prevent further crime before it happens.
License plate recognition will continue to play a critical role in the national crime and safety conversation. This is true especially as communities, businesses, and public safety institutions increasingly rely on technology to drive insights to generate leads and solve and prevent criminal activities.
Why License Plates Matter
According to the most recent FBI crime clearance data available, less than 50% of violent crime gets solved. Police are understaffed, have too many cases on their desks, and lack actionable evidence — like a license plate number. That’s why Flock Safety built a solution that focuses on license plate recognition (LPR) and Vehicle Fingerprint™ technology.
A license plate gives authorities a clear direction in their investigation. It’s also linked to the history of the vehicle, so if the vehicle or plates have been stolen, law enforcement can act on that information.
Unlike historically-biased eyewitness testimony, a license plate number eliminates the potential for bias or false identifications.
How License Plate Recognition Cameras Enhance Security
- Instantly searchable data, including plate numbers or missing/covered plates, as well as vehicle make, model, color, alterations, and other unique identifying information. With a standard camera, you have to go through hours of footage to find the captured crime.
- Integration with local law enforcement to identify vehicles involved in crimes from retail theft to amber alerts. When the camera identifies a flagged license plate, the camera will notify the authorities automatically, with no action needed by the camera owner.
- Actionable evidence to bring to the authorities. Providing objective evidence mitigates bias and gives law enforcement what they need to quickly and effectively investigate a crime.
- 24/7 protection. Even full-time security guards can’t monitor the entirety of a property. And if a crime does occur on their watch, actionable evidence is not always available to make an arrest.
The benefits of license plate recognition technology extend to many individuals within a community, from law enforcement and business owners, to neighborhoods, schools, and beyond.
Neighborhoods, Gated Communities, and HOAs
Homeowners associations charged with providing security services for neighborhood spaces must review and evaluate a wide array of options for securing their communities.
Communities often decide between traditional security options such as gates, lighting, and security patrols. Many residents already use personal security devices like smart doorbells, cameras, alarm systems, and motion sensor-activated outdoor lighting.
As a way to supplement these traditional security measures, license plate recognition cameras can fill in any security gaps and bolster evidence in the event of a crime. They also minimize the risk to residents, security personnel, and neighborhood watch volunteers by reducing the need for face-to-face confrontation and providing 24/7 protection.
The Flock Safety Advantage for Neighborhoods
- Flock Safety’s camera systems are hassle-free. Cameras are leased, so your neighborhood always has the latest model.
- Flock cameras are budget-friendly and run primarily on LTE and solar panels, ensuring no hidden costs. You don’t need to run electricity, wifi, or anything else to them.
- Flock Safety cameras are discretely designed, so they don't compromise the neighborhood aesthetic.
- Flock respects your privacy. The encrypted data collected is 100% owned by your HOA or community and is only kept for 30 days by default.
Learn more about how Flock Safety can help your neighborhood work with law enforcement to reduce crime rates, protect home values, and give your residents peace of mind.
Commercial Businesses
Retail theft is a growing issue for retailers of all sizes. The National Retail Foundation found that organized retail crime (ORC) rose by almost 20% from 2021 to 2022. Businesses may struggle to prevent thefts and have limited ability to track down suspects after the fact, even with in-store video footage.
The same survey also showed that 88% of retailers note that, in general, shoplifters exhibit “somewhat more” or “much more” aggressive and violent behavior compared to the previous year.
Facing a growing threat of shoplifting, robbery, cyber theft, and violent crimes, half of the survey respondents said they would add technology resources for their security needs. A license plate recognition camera allows a business to link a shoplifter or other suspect to a vehicle, making it more likely they can be identified and arrested.
Crimes also happen outside businesses, such as parking lot smash-and-grabs, which LPR cameras can help prevent and solve. If an unauthorized person enters the premises, LPR cameras can alert administrators to prevent any unwanted confrontation.
The Flock Safety Advantage for Businesses
- Cameras run on solar power and LTE for easy installation almost anywhere on your property, with no additional utility bills or IT integration.
- Place at-risk vehicles on a Custom Hot List to get automatic alerts when they drive by your cameras.
- Easily search all of your footage based on time, location and detailed vehicle criteria.
- Option to share evidence and alerts from your cameras with local law enforcement so they can act quickly if an incident occurs.
Learn more about how Flock Safety can help your business reduce crime, improve customer experience, and keep employees safe.
Apartment Complexes
If you’re managing apartments or other rental properties, resident safety is a top priority for retention and reputation. Crime and a high rate of resident turnover can be extremely costly.
Implementing license plate recognition cameras can help prevent these issues and provide protection for your residents, leading to a safe community and satisfied residents.
Property managers have to juggle various responsibilities with multiple units or properties. LPR cameras can help reduce the burden by automatically alerting authorities when a crime occurs and producing actionable evidence without the need to sift through hours and hours of CCTV footage.
The Flock Safety Advantage for Property Managers
- Flock takes care of hardware, permitting, installation, maintenance and software training for a single annual subscription price.
- Flock cameras are solar-powered and run on LTE, which means they do not increase utility costs or rely on potentially unstable Wi-Fi.
- License plate reading cameras capture vehicle data day and night, and automatically alert law enforcement if a wanted vehicle passes by.
Learn more about how Flock Safety helps improve resident safety, satisfaction, and retention while reducing crime rates and protecting your investment.
Improvement Districts
Often, business and property owners will join an improvement district in an effort to help maintain and promote a safe and thriving community for businesses, visitors, and residents. Reducing crime and increasing safety are among the top priorities for such improvement districts, ultimately leading to higher property values, better business development opportunities, and happier residents and customers.
License plate recognition technology can monitor the area and reduce crime by creating a security presence. LPR cameras run unattended 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, handling high volumes of traffic and license plates.
Additionally, LPR camera systems can be shared with law enforcement, allowing them to take immediate action when an at-risk vehicle is detected.
The Flock Safety Advantage for Improvement Districts
- Hardware, permitting, installation, maintenance and software are handled by Flock.
- Flock Safety cameras run on solar power and LTE for easy installation almost anywhere with no additional utility bills.
- Flock Safety data can be shared with law enforcement, providing footage that is searchable and easy to sift through.
Learn more about how Flock Safety helps Improvement Districts by reducing crime.
Success With Flock Safety
Flock Safety’s license plate recognition camera systems are helping create safer communities across the United States. Flock is present in 49 states and thousands of cities.
Police departments across the country are seeing success using Flock Safety cameras, such as Gwinnett Police, who in 2021 used Flock LPRs to recover 104 stolen vehicles that were worth a total of $1.47 million, locate 93 wanted persons, and assist in a 53% decrease in commercial burglaries in one year.
- Cobb County Police attribute a 100% homicide clearance rate over 2 years in part to Flock LPR cameras.
- Castle Rock, CO saw a 25% decrease in auto thefts in 2021 followed by a 15% decrease in 2022, for a total of a 40% reduction in car theft after installing Flock cameras.
- Peoria Police Department reported that shooting incidents declined 28 percent, shooting victims declined 26 percent and shooting murders dropped 26 percent from 2021 to 2022 after deploying Flock cameras.
Whether you’re a business owner, HOA board member, property manager, law enforcement officer, or other professional seeking to protect yourself and your community, Flock Safety will help improve security and lower crime rates.
Book a free demo today to see how Flock Safety can help reduce crime and protect your community.
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Flock Safety is an all-in-one technology solution to eliminate crime and keep your community safe. Our intelligent platform combines the power of communities at scale - including cities, businesses, schools, and law enforcement agencies - to shape a safer future together. Our full-service, maintenance-free technology solution is trusted by more than 4,000 communities across the country to help solve and deter crime in the pursuit of safer communities for everyone. Visit www.flocksafety.com for more info.
Reduce crime one license plate at a time
License plate recognition (LPR) cameras can be placed almost anywhere to capture detailed data about license plates and vehicles used to commit crimes, enabling quick and efficient action.
In one study, 97% of motor vehicle thieves were also charged with other crimes. Motor vehicle thefts are called a “keystone crime” by the Council on Criminal Justice because they so often are used to facilitate the commission of other, more serious offenses.
Unlike reactive security systems, license plate recognition (LPR) systems provide proactive, data-driven, actionable evidence.
Here’s why license plate recognition matters:
- In many cases, a license plate number is a crucial pieve of evidence law enforcement can use to pursue an investigation. A license plate is objective, actionable, and discrete.
- Alerting police when a stolen or known suspect vehicle enters a community can prevent further crime before it happens.
License plate recognition will continue to play a critical role in the national crime and safety conversation. This is true especially as communities, businesses, and public safety institutions increasingly rely on technology to drive insights to generate leads and solve and prevent criminal activities.
Why License Plates Matter
According to the most recent FBI crime clearance data available, less than 50% of violent crime gets solved. Police are understaffed, have too many cases on their desks, and lack actionable evidence — like a license plate number. That’s why Flock Safety built a solution that focuses on license plate recognition (LPR) and Vehicle Fingerprint™ technology.
A license plate gives authorities a clear direction in their investigation. It’s also linked to the history of the vehicle, so if the vehicle or plates have been stolen, law enforcement can act on that information.
Unlike historically-biased eyewitness testimony, a license plate number eliminates the potential for bias or false identifications.
How License Plate Recognition Cameras Enhance Security
- Instantly searchable data, including plate numbers or missing/covered plates, as well as vehicle make, model, color, alterations, and other unique identifying information. With a standard camera, you have to go through hours of footage to find the captured crime.
- Integration with local law enforcement to identify vehicles involved in crimes from retail theft to amber alerts. When the camera identifies a flagged license plate, the camera will notify the authorities automatically, with no action needed by the camera owner.
- Actionable evidence to bring to the authorities. Providing objective evidence mitigates bias and gives law enforcement what they need to quickly and effectively investigate a crime.
- 24/7 protection. Even full-time security guards can’t monitor the entirety of a property. And if a crime does occur on their watch, actionable evidence is not always available to make an arrest.
The benefits of license plate recognition technology extend to many individuals within a community, from law enforcement and business owners, to neighborhoods, schools, and beyond.
Neighborhoods, Gated Communities, and HOAs
Homeowners associations charged with providing security services for neighborhood spaces must review and evaluate a wide array of options for securing their communities.
Communities often decide between traditional security options such as gates, lighting, and security patrols. Many residents already use personal security devices like smart doorbells, cameras, alarm systems, and motion sensor-activated outdoor lighting.
As a way to supplement these traditional security measures, license plate recognition cameras can fill in any security gaps and bolster evidence in the event of a crime. They also minimize the risk to residents, security personnel, and neighborhood watch volunteers by reducing the need for face-to-face confrontation and providing 24/7 protection.
The Flock Safety Advantage for Neighborhoods
- Flock Safety’s camera systems are hassle-free. Cameras are leased, so your neighborhood always has the latest model.
- Flock cameras are budget-friendly and run primarily on LTE and solar panels, ensuring no hidden costs. You don’t need to run electricity, wifi, or anything else to them.
- Flock Safety cameras are discretely designed, so they don't compromise the neighborhood aesthetic.
- Flock respects your privacy. The encrypted data collected is 100% owned by your HOA or community and is only kept for 30 days by default.
Learn more about how Flock Safety can help your neighborhood work with law enforcement to reduce crime rates, protect home values, and give your residents peace of mind.
Commercial Businesses
Retail theft is a growing issue for retailers of all sizes. The National Retail Foundation found that organized retail crime (ORC) rose by almost 20% from 2021 to 2022. Businesses may struggle to prevent thefts and have limited ability to track down suspects after the fact, even with in-store video footage.
The same survey also showed that 88% of retailers note that, in general, shoplifters exhibit “somewhat more” or “much more” aggressive and violent behavior compared to the previous year.
Facing a growing threat of shoplifting, robbery, cyber theft, and violent crimes, half of the survey respondents said they would add technology resources for their security needs. A license plate recognition camera allows a business to link a shoplifter or other suspect to a vehicle, making it more likely they can be identified and arrested.
Crimes also happen outside businesses, such as parking lot smash-and-grabs, which LPR cameras can help prevent and solve. If an unauthorized person enters the premises, LPR cameras can alert administrators to prevent any unwanted confrontation.
The Flock Safety Advantage for Businesses
- Cameras run on solar power and LTE for easy installation almost anywhere on your property, with no additional utility bills or IT integration.
- Place at-risk vehicles on a Custom Hot List to get automatic alerts when they drive by your cameras.
- Easily search all of your footage based on time, location and detailed vehicle criteria.
- Option to share evidence and alerts from your cameras with local law enforcement so they can act quickly if an incident occurs.
Learn more about how Flock Safety can help your business reduce crime, improve customer experience, and keep employees safe.
Apartment Complexes
If you’re managing apartments or other rental properties, resident safety is a top priority for retention and reputation. Crime and a high rate of resident turnover can be extremely costly.
Implementing license plate recognition cameras can help prevent these issues and provide protection for your residents, leading to a safe community and satisfied residents.
Property managers have to juggle various responsibilities with multiple units or properties. LPR cameras can help reduce the burden by automatically alerting authorities when a crime occurs and producing actionable evidence without the need to sift through hours and hours of CCTV footage.
The Flock Safety Advantage for Property Managers
- Flock takes care of hardware, permitting, installation, maintenance and software training for a single annual subscription price.
- Flock cameras are solar-powered and run on LTE, which means they do not increase utility costs or rely on potentially unstable Wi-Fi.
- License plate reading cameras capture vehicle data day and night, and automatically alert law enforcement if a wanted vehicle passes by.
Learn more about how Flock Safety helps improve resident safety, satisfaction, and retention while reducing crime rates and protecting your investment.
Improvement Districts
Often, business and property owners will join an improvement district in an effort to help maintain and promote a safe and thriving community for businesses, visitors, and residents. Reducing crime and increasing safety are among the top priorities for such improvement districts, ultimately leading to higher property values, better business development opportunities, and happier residents and customers.
License plate recognition technology can monitor the area and reduce crime by creating a security presence. LPR cameras run unattended 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, handling high volumes of traffic and license plates.
Additionally, LPR camera systems can be shared with law enforcement, allowing them to take immediate action when an at-risk vehicle is detected.
The Flock Safety Advantage for Improvement Districts
- Hardware, permitting, installation, maintenance and software are handled by Flock.
- Flock Safety cameras run on solar power and LTE for easy installation almost anywhere with no additional utility bills.
- Flock Safety data can be shared with law enforcement, providing footage that is searchable and easy to sift through.
Learn more about how Flock Safety helps Improvement Districts by reducing crime.
Success With Flock Safety
Flock Safety’s license plate recognition camera systems are helping create safer communities across the United States. Flock is present in 49 states and thousands of cities.
Police departments across the country are seeing success using Flock Safety cameras, such as Gwinnett Police, who in 2021 used Flock LPRs to recover 104 stolen vehicles that were worth a total of $1.47 million, locate 93 wanted persons, and assist in a 53% decrease in commercial burglaries in one year.
- Cobb County Police attribute a 100% homicide clearance rate over 2 years in part to Flock LPR cameras.
- Castle Rock, CO saw a 25% decrease in auto thefts in 2021 followed by a 15% decrease in 2022, for a total of a 40% reduction in car theft after installing Flock cameras.
- Peoria Police Department reported that shooting incidents declined 28 percent, shooting victims declined 26 percent and shooting murders dropped 26 percent from 2021 to 2022 after deploying Flock cameras.
Whether you’re a business owner, HOA board member, property manager, law enforcement officer, or other professional seeking to protect yourself and your community, Flock Safety will help improve security and lower crime rates.
Book a free demo today to see how Flock Safety can help reduce crime and protect your community.
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Flock Safety is an all-in-one technology solution to eliminate crime and keep your community safe. Our intelligent platform combines the power of communities at scale - including cities, businesses, schools, and law enforcement agencies - to shape a safer future together. Our full-service, maintenance-free technology solution is trusted by more than 4,000 communities across the country to help solve and deter crime in the pursuit of safer communities for everyone. Visit www.flocksafety.com for more info.