Source: https://www.lapdpolicecom.lacity.org/071426/BPC_26-184x.pdf
Publisher: LAPD Office of the Inspector General (OIG), submitted to the Board of Police Commissioners
Date Published: July 14, 2026 (Board of Police Commissioners meeting date)
Relevant To: LAPD OIG audit of ALPR “hot list” accuracy — directly led to LAPD allowing its Flock Safety contract to expire
Verification Status: Verified (content confirmed via 404 Media’s July 13, 2026 reporting, which quotes and links directly to this report; original PDF exceeds fetchable size limit for direct review)
Notes: LAPD OIG audit of the department’s ALPR “hot list” system covering an August 1-September 30, 2025 review period. Key findings: LAPD’s ALPR cameras (nearly 2,000 total, combining static Motorola and Flock pole-mounted cameras plus Axon in-cruiser cameras, all accessed through Flock’s backend via an Axon-Flock data-sharing partnership) generated over 210.5 million plate reads in two months. Of 5,911 distinct plates tracked as hot-list hits, no action was taken on 4,575. Officers acknowledged 161 alerts as accurate stolen-vehicle matches that were later determined to be inaccurate — generally because another jurisdiction or the vehicle owner hadn’t yet cleared the plate from the hot list after recovery. Because ALPR hot-list hits are treated as “high-risk” stops (backup, air support, supervisor called, occupants ordered out at gunpoint-adjacent caution), these errors created serious liberty-interest, trust, and liability concerns per the report’s own language. The OIG recommended LAPD suspend new ALPR camera deployments and new ALPR contracts pending public input and a vendor/data-practices reassessment, and strengthen ALPR data-access oversight. The report also credits the ALPR system with recovering 337 stolen vehicles and contributing to 74 arrests in the same two-month period. This report directly preceded and appears to have driven LAPD’s decision to let its Flock Safety contract expire over the weekend of July 11-12, 2026, making LAPD the largest PD in the country to drop Flock.