As much as I dislike flock, this only seems like an indictment on the police.

Surveillance cameras (not Flock, sounds like) are what allowed the police to spend ridiculous amounts of the city's time chasing (checks notes) $295 of damage to a swing from totally normal use by a couple of pre-teens.

Swings have always broken. Before widespread surveillance the swing would have just been replaced or not and everyone would have moved on.