Some suits at TSG Invest just started poking around Flock Safety. That's the outfit selling automated license plate readers, street cameras, drones, and plenty of AI software to police departments. They call it 'pre-IPO research coverage,' meaning they are sizing up Flock Safety for big money investors, the ones who get in before the stock hits the open market. The big fish, the ones with padded wallets and quiet offices, are always looking for the next hustle.
Flock Safety isn't some garage operation. They claim over five thousand law enforcement agencies are using their gear. Think about that for a second. Five thousand sets of digital eyes, fixed on intersections, logging every trip to the grocery store, every kid on a bike, every car parked on the street. It builds a steady, quiet record of everyone’s daily grind. This company packages and sells all that information. TSG Invest isn't looking at the quiet worry of ordinary people about these networks. They see profit in that data. It's just another gear in the machine, grinding out wealth from what used to be open road and quiet neighborhoods, turning public spaces into private ledgers.