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Flock Safety

also referred to as: flock

21 statements across 8 episodes · 16 bullish · 0 bearish · 8 people on the record · first statement Feb 6, 2023 by Katherine Boyle · said 88 times in 12 episodes since 2023 · across every show →

Mentions by year

brought up most by Garrett Langley (26), David Ulevitch (20), Ben Horowitz (15), Katherine Boyle (10), Erik Torenberg (7), David George (4), Kimberly Tan (2), Sheriff Kevin McMahill (1)

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2026 8 mentions in 4 episodes 2 per episode
2025 41 mentions in 4 episodes 10 per episode
2024 34 mentions in 2 episodes 17 per episode
2023 5 mentions in 2 episodes 3 per episode

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Everything said about Flock Safety, oldest first

Feb 6, 2023 positive
Disclosure
Boyle: Flock Safety began selling to HOAs before expanding to government
“Flock Safety, where they started out as a consumer business selling directly to homeowners associations, and they were having such success with the people in their communities that they were serving, That law enforcement officials started pulling them into gov…”
Katherine Boyle Feb 6, 2023 ▶ 9:11 Intro to American Dynamism
Dec 26, 2023 positive
Insight
Tan: Flock Safety proved software sales models in difficult physical verticals
“I also think there's just like a business model understanding question, which a lot of people thought for a long time that selling into these Difficult verticals was tough. And I think now that we have companies like flock safety and proving that it is possibl…”
Kimberly Tan Dec 26, 2023 ▶ 6:23 Big Ideas 2024: New Applications for Computer Vision and Video Intelligence with Kimberly Tan
Feb 8, 2024 positive
Assertion Partly supported
Langley: Flock Safety recovered stolen cars and weapons within 24 hours
“Most recently in Wake Forest, they rolled out Flock, and within their first 24 hours, Found three stolen cars, a missing child, and two automatic firearms on campus”
Garrett Langley Feb 8, 2024 ▶ 5:32 Drones, Data, and Deterrence: Technology's Role in Public Safety
Feb 8, 2024 bullish
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Langley: Flock Safety operates in 4,000 cities, solving 2,200 crimes daily
“We're live in just over 4000 cities in America. So that's almost 70% of the population that's covered by flock, and from, ah, efficacy, ah, we solve about 2200 crimes a day, ah, which is just around 10%.”
Garrett Langley Feb 8, 2024 ▶ 10:04 Drones, Data, and Deterrence: Technology's Role in Public Safety
Feb 8, 2024 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Ulevitch: Marginalized community leaders are top advocates for Flock Safety
“Some of the biggest advocates for flock safety in communities with high crime rates are those community leaders from more marginalized communities.”
David Ulevitch Feb 8, 2024 ▶ 16:42 Drones, Data, and Deterrence: Technology's Role in Public Safety
Feb 8, 2024 bullish
Assertion Partly supported
Langley: Elk Grove police use Flock drones to respond in 30 seconds
“So in their real-time crime centers, powered by Flock, they get all their nine-one-one calls. They have our DFR product. So when a nine-one-one call comes in, a gunshot detection, a stolen car, they have strategically placed about a dozen of our drones and doc…”
Garrett Langley Feb 8, 2024 ▶ 34:11 Drones, Data, and Deterrence: Technology's Role in Public Safety
Feb 8, 2024 positive
Assertion Supported
Boyle: Flock Safety cameras tracked kidnapped baby across Georgia to rescue child
“He said shortly after the kidnapping, flock safety cameras in Atlanta picked up the car and was able to follow that car across multiple counties and find that baby unharmed a couple hours later and bring him back to his mother and bring the perpetrators to jus…”
Katherine Boyle Feb 8, 2024 ▶ 2:32 Drones, Data, and Deterrence: Technology's Role in Public Safety
Feb 8, 2024 positive
Insight
Langley: Higher clearance rates are the sole correlation with lower crime
“The only correlation between a drop in crime is an increase in clearance rate.”
Garrett Langley Feb 8, 2024 ▶ 19:29 Drones, Data, and Deterrence: Technology's Role in Public Safety
Feb 8, 2024
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Langley: Flock Safety earns more from private communities than police departments
“If you look at most of our revenue concentration, it's pretty common that the community is spending more money on flock than the police department.”
Garrett Langley Feb 8, 2024 ▶ 28:40 Drones, Data, and Deterrence: Technology's Role in Public Safety
Feb 8, 2024
Assertion Partly supported
Langley: Austin police retain Flock data for seven days, unlike Dallas
“He has seven days of data retention. And he has to show up every single month and provide an audit of every single search that's conducted on his system. That's dramatically different than in Dallas, or in Tulsa, or Oklahoma City, where the chief doesn't have …”
Garrett Langley Feb 8, 2024 ▶ 27:08 Drones, Data, and Deterrence: Technology's Role in Public Safety
Feb 8, 2024 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
McMahill: Flock technology will eventually make committing crimes impossible
“This technology is changing the game, and with the advent of Flock, we are going to get to a place at some point where it becomes impossible to commit a crime because technology will help us resolve that.”
Sheriff Kevin McMahill Feb 8, 2024 ▶ 12:06 Drones, Data, and Deterrence: Technology's Role in Public Safety
Feb 8, 2024 bullish
Assertion Contradicted
Langley: Dozens of police agencies using Flock achieve 100% violent crime clearance
“We, we've got dozens of agencies that, like the sheriff, are at a hundred percent clearance rate on violent crime, and they are approaching a hundred percent clearance rate on nonviolent crime.”
Garrett Langley Feb 8, 2024 ▶ 33:47 Drones, Data, and Deterrence: Technology's Role in Public Safety
Nov 18, 2024 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Chief Gennaro: Combining cameras and drones prevents unnecessary police traffic stops
“When you utilize both technologies, a flock found the vehicle, and now you have a drone overhead that's like, hey, this is the car right here. You bypass all those unnecessary police interactions, and now you have a very calculated response on a suspect vehicl…”
Chief Mike Gennaro Nov 18, 2024 ▶ 35:53 Las Vegas is Becoming the SAFEST City in America
Nov 18, 2024 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Chief Gennaro: LVMPD uses Flock cameras to track homicide and robbery suspects
“We get a large number of Flock hits that help us find murder suspects, stolen vehicles, robbery suspects, where, you know, there's not a cop at that intersection, and the vehicle goes through, and it's like, ok, Flock got the vehicle”
Chief Mike Gennaro Nov 18, 2024 ▶ 34:49 Las Vegas is Becoming the SAFEST City in America
Apr 23, 2025
Assertion Supported
Horowitz: Las Vegas public safety drones respond within 90 seconds
“So we've deployed prepared nine one, flock safety, Skydio drones and so basically, so, so the way to think about it is, if a gunshot goes off, or if an emergency call comes in or if you kind of show up on a, ah, flag safety camera, you know, and you've kidnapp…”
Ben Horowitz Apr 23, 2025 ▶ 27:06 Ben Horowitz on Leadership and Culture
Nov 19, 2025
Assertion Supported
Ulevitch: Flock Safety's Early Hardware Was a Cell Phone Camera
“So Flox Safety was basically a camera a cell phone camera in a box with power to it and an LTE connection.”
David Ulevitch Nov 19, 2025 ▶ 26:01 Ben Horowitz & Marc Andreessen: Why Silicon Valley Turned Against Defense (And How We're Fixing It)
Dec 17, 2025 neutral
Insight
Langley: Public privacy complaints are a proxy for distrust in police
“You know, they call it privacy, but that's just a cover for, I don't trust the police to do their job effectively.”
Garrett Langley Dec 17, 2025 ▶ 33:41 “How We Can Eliminate Crime” | Ben Horowitz and Garrett Langley
Dec 17, 2025 positive
Assertion Contradicted
Langley: Flock Safety helped return over 450 missing children this year
“We helped return over 450 missing children this year.”
Garrett Langley Dec 17, 2025 ▶ 57:12 “How We Can Eliminate Crime” | Ben Horowitz and Garrett Langley
Dec 17, 2025 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Langley: Flock Safety technology will assist in 1 million arrests this year
“Yeah, we'll have to do about a million arrests this year.”
Garrett Langley Dec 17, 2025 ▶ 31:38 “How We Can Eliminate Crime” | Ben Horowitz and Garrett Langley
Dec 17, 2025 positive
Assertion Not publicly verifiable
Langley: A 2022 Southern California rap song referenced Flock Safety
“Maybe in twenty-twenty-two, there was a rap song released, ah, in, in Southern California, with reference to flock, and that.”
Garrett Langley Dec 17, 2025 ▶ 11:44 “How We Can Eliminate Crime” | Ben Horowitz and Garrett Langley
Feb 9, 2026 bullish
Assertion Not checkable as stated
George: Flock Safety helps solve 700,000 crimes per year
“Each year's Flock is solving 700,000 crimes.”
David George Feb 9, 2026 ▶ 20:59 AI Markets: Deep Dive with a16z's David George
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