What It Takes to Clear a Million Crimes a Year with Flock Safety's CEO
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South American cartels fly illegal drones through these neighborhoods. They'll flip on night vision, look through houses to see if anyone's home, then go break in. I was working with a town in Tennessee. It's a good city. Their average response time to a 911 call is seven and a half minutes. Their drone from us gets there in sixty eight seconds. It's just like a better quality of service. You don't wind up policing where crime has happened historically. You wind up policing where crime is happening right now Yep. In real time. And that is a fairly fundamental shift in how policing works. The m
In 2017, someone stole a gun from a car in Garrett Langley's neighborhood. The Atlanta Police Department came, shrugged, and left. No fingerprints, no investigation. The crime would go unsolved. So Langley, an electrical engineer, built a camera to track every car entering the neighborhood. Two months later, another gun was stolen. This time, he handed police a single plate, the only car that didn't belong. Hours later, an arrest. That prototype became flock safety, now deployed in more than 6,000 American cities. Last year, the company helped clear over a million crimes. The product has grown
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Okay. So maybe start by describing how does the FLAC product work.
Yeah. Maybe we go we rewind, like, all the way back, because it's evolved. Mhmm. You know? So eight years ago, living in Atlanta, there's a fun fact is if you're in a place like Atlanta or Memphis or pick a town in the Southeast, if you just pull 10 f one fifty door handles, some, let's call it three out of 10, will be unlocked, and one out of 10 will have a firearm in the glove box. Regardless of the firearm, your point of view on it, it's like, you should keep the And firearm you should keep it in a safe, not in a glove box. That's just really bad, but that's what people do. And so if you're
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And for most major cities
There's no stakeout happening for those
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