| { |
| "snapshot_date": "2026-07-27", |
| "source": "Google Trends via Crawlora API", |
| "companion_study": "https://crawlora.net/blog/flock-camera-search-surge-2026", |
| "license": "CC-BY-4.0", |
| "scale_note": "Google Trends values are relative, not absolute search counts. All three interest-over-time keywords were pulled in a single API call, so they share one 0-100 scale and are directly comparable to each other. The region series is a separate call on its own 0-100 scale (100 = highest state) and is NOT comparable to the time-series numbers.", |
| "interest_over_time": { |
| "geo": "US", |
| "time_range": "today 12-m", |
| "search_type": "web", |
| "keywords": [ |
| "Flock Safety", |
| "license plate reader", |
| "Flock camera" |
| ], |
| "weeks": 53, |
| "flock_camera": { |
| "baseline_range_through_march_2026": [ |
| 1, |
| 5 |
| ], |
| "baseline_weeks": 36, |
| "peak": 100, |
| "peak_week": "2026-07-26", |
| "first_week_above_baseline_ceiling": "2026-04-12" |
| }, |
| "license_plate_reader": { |
| "peak": 2, |
| "peak_week": "2026-05-17" |
| }, |
| "flock_safety": { |
| "peak": 15, |
| "peak_week": "2026-07-26" |
| } |
| }, |
| "interest_by_region": { |
| "geo": "US", |
| "time_range": "today 3-m", |
| "keyword": "Flock camera", |
| "states": 51, |
| "highest": [ |
| { |
| "state": "West Virginia", |
| "value": 100 |
| }, |
| { |
| "state": "Arkansas", |
| "value": 57 |
| }, |
| { |
| "state": "Kentucky", |
| "value": 55 |
| }, |
| { |
| "state": "Idaho", |
| "value": 53 |
| }, |
| { |
| "state": "North Dakota", |
| "value": 52 |
| } |
| ], |
| "lowest": [ |
| { |
| "state": "California", |
| "value": 24 |
| }, |
| { |
| "state": "New Jersey", |
| "value": 22 |
| }, |
| { |
| "state": "District of Columbia", |
| "value": 20 |
| }, |
| { |
| "state": "New York", |
| "value": 18 |
| }, |
| { |
| "state": "Hawaii", |
| "value": 17 |
| } |
| ] |
| }, |
| "related_queries": { |
| "geo": "US", |
| "time_range": "today 3-m", |
| "keyword": "Flock camera", |
| "rising_count": 9, |
| "top_count": 25, |
| "rising_all_definitional": true, |
| "note": "Both lists are the complete returned sets, not selections. No query in either list concerns disabling, damaging or removing a camera; the nearest is 'deflock' (top, value 4), a camera-mapping project." |
| }, |
| "deflock_self_reported": { |
| "source": "deflock.org front page, scraped 2026-07-27", |
| "lprs_mapped_usa": 121464, |
| "cities_listed_rejecting_lprs": 94, |
| "caveat": "Volunteer project's own self-reported counts; not an independently audited census." |
| } |
| } |
|
|
