{"id":415829,"date":"2026-08-25T01:30:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T01:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/415829\/"},"modified":"2026-08-25T01:30:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T01:30:12","slug":"flock-camera-damaged-in-north-oak-cliff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/415829\/","title":{"rendered":"Flock camera damaged in North Oak Cliff"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">DALLAS &#8211; Damage to a Flock camera in Dallas comes as the city&#8217;s police department has seen a surge in Flock camera vandalism since early 2026.<\/p>\n<p>   Dallas Flock camera damaged   <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KDFW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">FOX 4 captured images of a damaged Flock camera in Dallas.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The camera, located at the intersection of Jefferson Boulevard and Hampton Road in North Oak Cliff, was seen tipped over onto the ground.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KDFW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What we don&#8217;t know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">We don&#8217;t know who or what caused the Flock camera to tip over.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Dallas Police have not yet said if there will be a criminal investigation into the damaged camera.<\/p>\n<p> Flock camera debate  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/3whg8zvh8gq7uwl7.jpg\" alt=\"Flock camera debate reaches North Texas\" class=\"sr-only\" data-v-892ef6a8=\"\"\/>    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/3whg8zvh8gq7uwl7.jpg\" alt=\"Flock camera debate reaches North Texas\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" class=\"vod-poster-image vod-poster-image--embedded\" data-v-39f6236e=\"\"\/>  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/video\/fmc-6ndlgxzq7i78wp5t\" data-v-892ef6a8=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Flock camera debate reaches North Texas<\/a> <\/p>\n<p data-v-892ef6a8=\"\">The Dallas Police Department says around 25 flock cameras have been vandalized or cut down since they were installed as a national debate grows over their use. FOX 4&#8217;s Alex Boyer has the story.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KDFW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">Dig deeper:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">As more and more police departments use Flock cameras to assist in solving crimes, more and more people have expressed concerns about them.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">There are approximately 670 Flock cameras located all across Dallas. They\u2019re typically mounted on 12-foot poles and have a solar panel on top to power the camera.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">They can read license plate numbers and other vehicle details. That information is then uploaded into a database that can be accessed by law enforcement agencies.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Their growing popularity and use in solving crimes has also led to a recent surge in vandalism. DPD said 25 cameras have either been cut down or vandalized since it started tracking cases in March.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Information in this story comes from FOX 4 reporting and the Dallas Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/dallas-county\/dallas\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dallas<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime and Public Safety<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/technology\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Technology<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/organization\/dallas-police\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dallas Police Department<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DALLAS &#8211; Damage to a Flock camera in Dallas comes as the city&#8217;s police department has seen a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":415830,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[1046,102,581,401,116,118,117,223,1827,3621,216,393],"class_list":["post-415829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-crime-publicsafety","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-county","tag-dallas-police","tag-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth-headlines","tag-fort-worth-news","tag-news","tag-organization","tag-technology","tag-tx","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=415829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415829\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/415830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=415829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=415829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=415829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}