Follow the money
The companies behind the cameras.
Every system in the Registry is sold by someone. These are the vendors — what they are, who funds them, and the Detroit footprint and contracts we can document. At least $18.25M in disclosed Detroit contracts runs through them.
In Detroit’s records
Vendors named in the city’s own CIOGS filings.
Motorola Solutions
Public · ~$67B market cap
The quiet giant — radios, body cameras, real-time crime centers, plate readers, and Avigilon face-search. Its plate data has been tapped by ICE; it's the main rival to Flock.
SoundThinking
Public · ~$107M market cap · ~$104M revenue
Absorbed the assets of PredPol, the predictive-policing pioneer. Independent studies keep finding most alerts turn up no gun crime.
Flock Safety
Private · ~$7.5B valuation
The license-plate-camera company now expanding into drones.
Burke
Detroit-documented vendor
Named in Detroit's filings for 1 documented system.
DataWorks Plus
Detroit-documented vendor
Named in Detroit's filings for 1 documented system.
Genetec
Detroit-documented vendor
Named in Detroit's filings for 1 documented system.
MosaicX
Detroit-documented vendor
Named in Detroit's filings for 1 documented system.
NOVO
Detroit-documented vendor
Named in Detroit's filings for 1 documented system.
Skydio
Private · ~$4.4B valuation
Quit consumer drones to focus on police and military. Detroit's documented vendor.
Also in the picture
National players whose tools shape this market — even where Detroit hasn’t named them in a filing.
Axon (formerly TASER)
Public · ~$37B market cap
Tasers + body cameras + the evidence cloud + drones + AI report-writing — the dominant vendor.
Profile →Clearview AI
Private
A face-search engine fined more than €100 million across France, Italy, Greece, and the Netherlands — none of it paid. Its co-founder was pushed out as CEO in 2025.
Profile →Palantir
Public · ~$270B market cap
Data-fusion software that ties scattered records into one searchable picture of a person. Reporting that the administration tapped it to help build a cross-agency “master database” on Americans drew alarm; Palantir denies building any such tool.
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