Palantir Can Flock Itself
GO FLOCK YOURSELVES
Follow the pipes. Not the denials.
Flock Safety keeps a camera on your street. Maybe several. Reading plates, logging cars, building a timeline of where your vehicle has been and when, and selling that timeline back to your police department as a subscription.
That part you probably knew.
Here’s the part nobody put in the brochure.
THE MIGRATION
In late 2025, a four person team at Flock Safety moved roughly two hundred terabytes of production data out of Amazon Redshift and into Snowflake. Four months, start to finish, less than half the timeline the consultants had quoted.
I’m not guessing at this. Snowflake published it as a customer success story. Their own marketing page, with the engineers named, celebrating how fast it went.
200 terabytes of plate reads, vehicle fingerprints, timestamps and movement patterns, lifted out of one warehouse and set down inside another.
Snowflake is where raw behavior gets refined into something a machine can query at speed. Call it storage if you want. Refineries also store things.
Which brings us to what happened on October 16, 2025.
THE HANDSHAKE
On that date, Snowflake and Palantir announced a strategic partnership. Not a rumor. A joint press release, on the wire, with a photo.
The technical language is theirs, not mine: bidirectional, zero-copy interoperability between Snowflake’s data cloud and Palantir Foundry and AIP.
Press release: Palantir’s platform can reach into a Snowflake environment and work the data where it sits. Nothing gets copied. Nothing gets moved. No file crosses a border. No log entry says a thing left the building, because nothing left the building.
The data stays exactly where it is and Palantir reads it anyway.
They built this on top of a connector that has existed quietly since January 2023. October just made it a marriage.
So hold the two facts next to each other.
Flock puts 200 terabytes of surveillance data into Snowflake.
Snowflake opens a zero-copy door to Palantir.
THE DENIAL THAT ISN’T A LIE
Flock has an answer for this, and I want you to read it in their own words rather than mine.
On December 3, 2025, Flock’s CEO posted a statement on the company blog titled “Keeping Our Customers in Control.” Here it is, verbatim:
“Flock does not work with Palantir. Palantir has no relationship with Flock and has no access to any Flock customer data. Unlike predictive policing platforms, Flock is purpose-built for local agencies with strict data ownership, 30-day default retention, and full auditability.”
The same language sits on their public trust page today, phrased as an FAQ: “No, Flock does not work with Palantir. Palantir does not have access to any Flock customer data. No, Flock is not owned by Palantir.”
Go read it yourself. flocksafety.com/trust
They’ve since repeated that paragraph nearly word for word across at least five separate posts on their own site. February 26, 2026, twice in one week.
Now check the calendar.
Snowflake and Palantir announced zero-copy interoperability on October 16, 2025.
Flock’s CEO published that denial on December 3, 2025.
7weeks.
And here’s the thing. I believe them.
Read the denial again, closely, the way you’d read a contract instead of a press release. It says Palantir has no relationship with Flock. It says Palantir has no access to Flock customer data. Both of those can be entirely true.
Neither of them is a statement about where the data lives.
Flock doesn’t need a contract with Palantir. Flock needs to keep 200terabytes parked inside the 1 warehouse Palantir spent October buildng a door into. The relationship doesn’t require a signature.
Every company in this chain can deny the company next to it, truthfully, on the record, under oath, and the chain still works exactly as designed. The architecture does the collaborating so the executives never have to.
Nobody has to lie.
That’s not a loophole in the system. That is the system.
THE ROSTER
Now look at who’s standing around the machine.
Flock has raised roughly 960 million dollars. The March 2025 round alone was 275 million at a 7.5 billion dollar valuation, led by Andreessen Horowitz.
Also in that round: Greenoaks, Bedrock, Meritech, Matrix, Sands Capital, Kleiner Perkins, Tiger Global, Y Combinator.
And Founders Fund. Peter Thiel’s shop. The same Peter Thiel who co-founded Palantir.
They’ll call it a minority position. Minority is not zero. Minority is a chair at the table with a view of the roadmap.
AND THEN THERE’S TOKA
Andreessen Horowitz led the round that made Flock a seven and a half billion dollar company.
Andreessen Horowitz also funded Toka.
Toka is an Israeli cyber intelligence firm founded in 2018. It has raised about 37.5 million dollars, and a16z has been in since the first round. Dell Technologies Capital is also in.
What does Toka sell?
According to Haaretz, and to TechCrunch, and to Toka’s own pitch: the ability to locate cameras in a target area, get into their feeds, and alter or erase the footage. In realtime.
Read that again with the rest of this piece in your head.
One venture firm is the lead investor in the company that blankets your streets with cameras, and a backer of the company that can climb into connected cameras and change what they recorded.
The company that creates the evidence. The company that can edit the evidence. Same checkbook.
It gets better. Toka’s own competitive listing names Flock Safety among its top competitors.
They’re not even pretending it’s a different industry.
And in 2024, TechCrunch reported that Ben Horowitz personally tried to donate money to the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department so they could buy Toka’s software.
The department passed. But sit with the shape of that. A billionaire venture capitalist offering to pay a police force to buy camera-hacking tools from a company he’s invested in.
Toka’s own spokesman confirmed it happened.
THE PART WITH THE DEAD FINANCIER IN IT
In February 2026, Forbes reported on emails released by the Justice Department.
Former Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak brokered a million dollar investment by Jeffrey Epstein into a police technology startup called Reporty, back in 2015. Reporty is now being acquired by Axon for 625 million dollars.
Barak brought Epstein other police tech deals too. And in 2018, right before Toka launched publicly with a16z’s money, Barak went to Epstein about Toka.
There is no evidence Epstein put money into Toka. What the emails show is Barak suggesting Epstein use his contacts to sell it. Barak’s words, per Forbes: “You can use it vis a vis senior officials or heads.”
So the pitch deck for the camera-hacking company was, at one point, being walked around by a convicted sex offender’s rolodex, at the suggestion of a former head of state.
Nobody in this story has ever had a bad week over it.
THE WIRING DIAGRAM
None of these people need to meet. There is no room. There is no cigar. Stop looking for the room.
Build the camera network.
Park the data in the refinery.
Let the refinery shake hands with the platform that turns behavior into prediction.
Fund all 3out of the same account.
And at every single node, when someone asks, deny the node next to you. Truthfully. Because at every individual node, the denial is accurate.
The camera watches you. The refinery scores you. The platform predicts you.
And a 4th company, funded by the same firm as the 1st can go back and rewrite what the camera saw.
THE CLOSE
This is not a theory. Every load-bearing claim above comes from a press release the companies wrote themselves, a customer case study they published as marketing, a court-released email, or a reporter who called them and got a confirmation.
They aren’t hiding it. They’re announcing it.
The horror isn’t the secret. There is no secret.
The horror is that they built a machine where the truth and the danger are the exact same sentence, and every man standing next to it can look you in the eye and swear he’s got nothing to do with the rest.
He’s telling the truth.
That’s the point.
Truth. Fire. Purpose.
No Heroes / No Halos / End Hopium.
Thank you for your time.
-Escanor
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RECEIPTS
Flock Safety’s migration to Snowflake Snowflake customer case study, “Flock Safety Scales AI and Data Analytics with Snowflake.” Roughly 200 terabytes of production data moved from Amazon Redshift to Snowflake in four months by a four-person team, led architecturally by Staff Data Platform Architect Grayson Rains, supported by Data Platform Leader Cory Woytasik.
The Snowflake and Palantir partnership “Snowflake and Palantir Announce Strategic Partnership for Enterprise-Ready AI & Analytics,” October 16, 2025. Integrates Snowflake’s AI Data Cloud with Palantir Foundry and AIP. Expanded integration between Foundry and Snowflake Iceberg Tables delivers “bidirectional, zero-copy interoperability.” Builds on a connector introduced January 2023. Flagship joint customer: Eaton.
Flock’s funding and investors Approximately $960 million raised. March 2025 round: $275 million led by Andreessen Horowitz at a $7.5 billion valuation, with Greenoaks Capital, Bedrock Capital, Meritech Capital, Matrix Partners, Sands Capital, Founders Fund, Kleiner Perkins, Tiger Global and Y Combinator participating.
Toka: what it is and who funds it Israeli cyber intelligence company, founded 2018, Tel Aviv. Approximately $37.5 million raised from Andreessen Horowitz, Dell Technologies Capital, Eclipse and Entree Capital. Per Haaretz (2022) and TechCrunch, Toka has offered government clients technology that can locate cameras in a target area, access their feeds, and alter or erase video.
Toka lists Flock Safety among its top competitors
Ben Horowitz and the Las Vegas police TechCrunch, December 2024: a16z’s Ben Horowitz attempted to donate funds to the Las Vegas Police Department for the purchase of Toka software. The department declined. Confirmed by a Toka spokesman.
Epstein, Barak, Reporty and Toka Forbes, February 10, 2026, based on Department of Justice email releases. Ehud Barak brokered Jeffrey Epstein’s $1 million investment into police tech startup Reporty in 2015; Reporty is being acquired by Axon for $625 million. Barak also approached Epstein regarding Toka in 2018, shortly before its public launch with a16z funding, suggesting Epstein promote it to his government contacts: “You can use it vis a vis senior officials or heads.” No evidence Epstein invested in Toka.
Flock’s Palantir denial, in Flock’s own words Flock Safety, “Keeping Our Customers in Control,” company blog, December 3, 2025. Statement from Flock’s CEO: “Flock does not work with Palantir. Palantir has no relationship with Flock and has no access to any Flock customer data. Unlike predictive policing platforms, Flock is purpose-built for local agencies with strict data ownership, 30-day default retention, and full auditability.”
Flock’s trust page, same denial as standing policy “No, Flock does not work with Palantir. Palantir does not have access to any Flock customer data. No, Flock is not owned by Palantir.”
The same paragraph, repeated across Flock’s site
https://www.flocksafety.com/blog/does-flock-share-data-with-ice (January 6, 2026)
https://www.flocksafety.com/blog/why-are-some-flock-cameras-being-removed-by-cities (February 26, 2026)
https://www.flocksafety.com/blog/does-flock-enable-mass-surveillance (February 26, 2026)
https://www.flocksafety.com/blog/customers-own-and-control-their-flock-data
Flock’s own disclosure of federal pilot programs Per Flock’s ICE post: FBI, July 21, 2021 to July 14, 2023. National Park Service (Tennessee), September 17, 2021 to December 4, 2024. NCIS pilot, January 2 to April 5, 2025. HSI pilot, March 3 to May 1, 2025. CBP pilot, May 9 to August 24, 2025. Flock states that in August 2025 it announced it would no longer conduct pilot projects with federal agencies.
Flock’s cloud infrastructure Flock states CJIS data is stored in AWS GovCloud.
Enjoy! Such a magnificent place!
After they get the Flock out of here, we have to get started on the Axom horseshit‼️