The LAPD just let its Flock contract expire and walked away from an 80,000-camera license-plate network. The reason wasn't cost. Its own CIO cited civil liberties, privacy, and the cameras being used to track people in a sanctuary city.
When your largest customer drops you over how you handle data, that isn't a PR problem to spin away. It's the market pricing in privacy risk. A data-sharing model nobody trusts is a liability, not a feature.