This GTA V mod lets you destroy Flock cameras. Its creator explains why.

Los Santos has a new way to get you in trouble, and you don’t even have to commit a crime.

A new Grand Theft Auto V mod from artist Morry Kolman, who goes by WTTDOTM online, installs 235 virtual Flock license plate reader cameras around the game’s fictional city.

Called Grand Theft Automated License Plate Reader , or GTALPR, it brings an extra layer of surveillance to your next drive.

And because this is GTA , you can destroy the cameras and collect in-game cash from their wreckage.

But the opportunity to blow them up is only part of the point.

Kolman wants players to feel what happens when a familiar environment becomes a place where they’re constantly being watched.

"I’m an artist, and much of my practice is based around giving people interesting and engaging ways to learn about the technological and political world around them," Kolman told Mashable.

"GTALPR is very much in that vein." For Kolman, a game modeled on an American city, and familiar to millions of players, offered a way to make surveillance tangible.

"Suddenly, you're always watched," he added.

"With the simple addition of some cameras, the entire environment gains a new passive layer of hostility." Bringing Flock’s camera network to Los Santos In the real world, Flock’s automated license plate readers capture vehicle images and enable police to search for vehicles and receive alerts about those on watchlists.

Flock pitches the technology as a way to help law enforcement locate wanted vehicles.

Civil liberties groups, including the ACLU , argue that these networks enable mass surveillance of people going about their everyday lives.

Kolman’s virtual version draws directly from the geography of the real network.

"I chose 235 for the number of cameras to use in GTALPR because it is 1/10th the amount of Flock cameras currently in LA County, and Los Santos is about 1/10th its real counterparts size," he told Mashable.