Outcomes
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Cost and surveillance intensity for the seven Success Stories on the September 22, 2026 portal capture, plus two press-named cases the portal omits. Eval categories: 211-2026.
Cost and intensity per portal story
Paid-path estimate May 2023 through mid-2026. Rolling 30-day portal windows are not lifetime totals.
| Metric | Figure | Basis |
|---|---|---|
| Portal Success Stories | 7 | Narrated wins on the City-referred portal |
| Dated story span | ~31 months | Jan 2024 skimming through Jul 19, 2026; Ulta undated |
| Paid-path estimate (mid) | ~$485,000 | Contract path May 2023–mid-2026; band ~$445k–$525k |
| $ per portal story | ~$69,000 | Mid ÷ 7; range ~$64k–$75k |
| Unique vehicles / story | ~120,000 | 838,945 in 30 days (portal) ÷ 7 |
| City alerts / story | ~88,400 | 618,781 alerts as of Jul 15, 2026 (211-2026) ÷ 7 |
Same 30-day portal window: 446 user search sessions; 68,672 hotlist hits; 164 cameras labeled LPR and other; 30-day retention. Those activity figures roll daily.
How the paid-to-date band was built
This archive has no invoice ledger. The midpoint is a contract-path estimate from authorized annual structures (not a City spreadsheet of checks written):
- Contract #2023-082 / Resolution 22-2023 (eff. May 2, 2023): Year 1 about $148,350; order-form recurring years about $130,500.
- Resolution 87-2025 (Oct 2025): + about $60,000/yr toward $208,350 annual, with first-year camera credit language in the packet.
- FlockOS 911 path about $15,000 (budget/ordinance materials in the archive).
- Excluded from the lead denominator: Safe City Year 1 schedule $0 via credits; Year 2 $88,880; RTCC civilian staffing (~$120k–$150k/yr). Decade max authorization remains about $4,666,900 under Resolution 108-2025.
Band used here: about $445,000–$525,000 (mid ~$485,000) ÷ 7 ≈ $64,000–$75,000 per portal Success Story. ACFR FY2024 names “Flock camera software leases” as a Public Safety cost driver without a standalone Flock dollar line. Resolutions: Library.
The seven portal stories
Sorted by date (undated last). Timing is relative to Safe City authorization, Resolution 108-2025 (Dec 15, 2025), not the earlier 2023 Flock contract. Paraphrase from the vendor portal HTML (2026-09-22). The Other paths column is a reading of the portal’s own facts, not a City finding.
| Story | Date | vs Safe City | Flock’s claimed role | Other paths | Portal’s own limit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Credit-card skimming | Before | Station CCTV plate unreadable → Flock ID → warrant | Possible | Oldest dated portal win; LPR after unreadable station CCTV | |
| Domestic assault, traffic stop | After | Victim named suspect; plate from department systems entered into Flock; highway hit | Solvable | Portal: without Flock, likely not located “as quickly” | |
| Shooting, vehicle ID / seizure | After | Leads with no witnesses; identify and seize vehicle | Possible | No witnesses stated; portal role is ID and seizure | |
| Armed robbery, fled vehicle | After | Identify fleeing vehicle → rapid arrest | Possible | Portal wording: “rapid” arrest | |
| Package theft, porch | After | LPR → owner → full recovery (~$1,000) | Solvable | Victim declined prosecution; warrants arrest | |
| Missing person / kidnapping assist | After | Locate victim out of state after neighboring-agency request | Solvable | Credits Flock for location; does not prove no other path | |
| Ulta Beauty burglary ring | Undated | Undated | LPR ID of vehicle; multi-state loss-prevention coordination | Possible | Multi-store link is detective / LP work beyond the plate hit |
Cutoff: Safe City vote Dec 15, 2025. Portal dated stories: 1 before, 5 after; Ulta has no portal date. None of these seven are proven Flock-only on the portal’s own wording.
Press stories not on the portal
Two named Blue Springs cases in local coverage, absent from the portal Success Stories list (Sep 22, 2026). Press clips are not a City evaluation package under 211-2026.
| Story | Date | vs Safe City | Flock’s claimed role | Other paths | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wilbur Young Park homicide Press | Before | City CCTV had vehicle description, no plate; Flock Freeform / vehicle fingerprint search → plate → hotlist → arrest ~two days later | Possible | KCTV5 (Apr 26, 2024) | |
| Hit-and-run / pursuit Press | After | Victim partial plate + Flock footage → locate vehicle → stop / pursuit | Possible | KCTV5 (Jun 11, 2026) |
Portal seven + press two = 9 named cases (mid paid-path ÷ 9 ≈ ~$54,000 each). FOX4’s Feb 2023 pilot line about “two crimes” in the first week is too thin to list as named cases here. Combined dated stories: 2 before Safe City, 6 after, plus Ulta undated. Wilbur Young used vehicle-characteristic search (no plate on city CCTV). The Mayor’s June 2026 email described cameras that “simply take a picture of a license plate” (Community).
Same crime class, other tools
Several of the nine named Blue Springs cases turn on speed or plate recovery. Peer cases in the same crime classes did not credit a citywide Flock network.
What Blue Springs’ own named cases already show
Several cases already include a named suspect, partial plate, city CCTV description, store video, or partner-agency request before Flock enters. Portal wording for domestic assault is speed (“as quickly”), not sole path. Package theft and skimming sit in classes that porch cameras, tips, and business CCTV also handle. Wilbur Young and Freeform filled an unreadable plate after city CCTV had a vehicle description.
Peers by crime class (not Blue Springs)
Comparative only. Same or adjacent fact patterns, without a credited citywide Flock win narrative:
- Porch / package theft
- Kansas City / Clay County (2025): Ring doorbell + bait package with an Apple Air Tag → charges. Kansas City (2025): Victims’ surveillance cameras + officers spotting suspects with boxes. Same crime class as the portal porch story.
- Pump skimming
- Grandview QuikTrip (2025): Station surveillance ID’d a white F-350 and suspect description (KMBC same case). Same crime class as the portal Hy-Vee skimming story. Grandview coverage did not rely on LPR; some Blue Springs pieces did.
- Domestic assault / fled scene
- Lewis County / Canton (2024): Witnesses + multi-agency locate in downtown Canton (KBUR). Same crime class as the portal domestic story’s “as quickly” line.
- Vehicle crime / robbery leads from doorbell video
- Kansas City (2024): Armed-robbery / carjacking series where an officer reviewed doorbell camera footage for a suspect vehicle description, then located and pursued the vehicle. Description-first path (armed robbery portal story; Wilbur Young). No Freeform credit in the piece.
- Hit-and-run with public vehicle details
- Kansas City Costco pedestrian hit-and-run (2025): KCPD released make/model, plate, and VIN and asked the public for tips (KMBC). Different path than the Blue Springs pursuit case; hit-and-run work still runs on victim/public vehicle information, not only a fixed LPR mesh.
Limits
Plate readers can speed no-witness or fled-vehicle work. Blue Springs still has no city-held multiyear outcome package under 211-2026. Unique-vehicle counts are a 30-day portal window, not lifetime plate reads. The ~$485k mid is a contract-path estimate, not an audited invoice total. The $4,666,900 Safe City max is decade-scale authorization, not the paid-path mid used above. Those “No Preexisting documents” evaluation categories remain empty in the City’s answer.