The Plan to Make American Crime Obsolete

There's two things cops hate, for things to change and for things to stay the same.

Most of the cops in the field are going to have to change the way their skill set is shaped because it's gonna be a little bit more investigative. It's going to be a little bit more nuanced. It's not going to look the same anymore.

Are people just gonna start to see drones flying around? Is that where we are?

You hear a gunshot go off and the drone finds a shooter getting into a car and driving off and then pursuing the vehicle. It's kind of almost hard to see that it isn't inevitable. We can't do that with a helicopter today unless you've just kept five helicopters up twenty four seven, and that's just not sustainable.

What advice would you give to founders who are less interested in optimizing ad clicks and more interested in actually building something that helps first responders and save lives?

My advice American law enforcement is being asked to do more with less. Departments are short staffed, officers are burning out, and the complexity of the job keeps growing. But the technology available to public safety has never been more powerful. Drones that respond to 911 calls before a patrol car can leave the station. License plate readers that flag an amber alert vehicle in real time. Body worn camera analytics that detect burnout before an officer hits a breaking point. These aren't prototypes. They're deployed today in departments across the country. The harder question is how you act

I'm on the board of Flock Safety. There's other companies like Skydio that make drones. I'm the recipient of constant notifications from you guys, hey, we found a kidnapped child. We used the technology in this way. We were able to deescalate a situation. I remember one story where someone called 911 and said, hey, there's a guy in the alleyway with a shotgun. Well, can imagine how a police officer would respond to that call, but it turned out the drone provided situational awareness. Instead, wait, there's just a janitor with a broom. That's not a guy with a shotgun. And it totally deescalate

Yeah. Look, drones are they're flying robots. And as we see AI robotics sweep every industry, like, all these industries are looking for ways to either automate things, make things more efficient, make things more effective. Drones are a similar piece of that. And in public safety, the short answer is we are gonna see more drones. We're gonna see also potentially more hostile drones that we have to be prepared for. You're gonna see more police and fire department drones responding to fire calls across the country. And flock safety, it's not just about drones. For us, we have multitudes of sens

I joked earlier that it's a bad time to be an enemy of America from Maduro to Al Mencho to the Ayatollah, but it sounds like it's gonna be a bad time to be a criminal here in America. Colonel Glover, talk about some of the other technologies and capabilities that you've been able to deploy that really changes the equation for law enforcement, either helping the officers or helping the general public or in most cases both.