Garrett Langley

13 statements across 2 episodes · 6 bullish · 3 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Feb 8, 2024 by Garrett Langley · said 6 times in 2 episodes since 2025 · across every show →

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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
Dec 17, 2025 negative
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Langley: Incarcerated young nonviolent offenders become violent within months
“Putting them in prison is the worst thing to do. They will go from nonviolent to violent in months. They will get stuck in it for their entire life.”
Garrett Langley Dec 17, 2025 ▶ 39:32 “How We Can Eliminate Crime” | Ben Horowitz and Garrett Langley
Dec 17, 2025 negative
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Langley: Sophisticated foreign gangs run U.S. crime as organized businesses
“There are truly a large number of, Eastern European and South American gangs operating large-scale businesses, and I call them businesses, because while they commit crime, they don't run sloppy.”
Garrett Langley Dec 17, 2025 ▶ 52:06 “How We Can Eliminate Crime” | Ben Horowitz and Garrett Langley
Dec 17, 2025 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Langley: Cell phone dumps track people better than license plate readers
“If the federal government wanted to find you, a license plate reader is the dumbest way to do it. I will just get a cell phone dump. And I will know your exact location and time at all times.”
Garrett Langley Dec 17, 2025 ▶ 0:55 “How We Can Eliminate Crime” | Ben Horowitz and Garrett Langley
Dec 17, 2025 negative
Assertion Supported
Langley: The majority of gun violence is never reported to police
“Majority of gun violence does not get reported.”
Garrett Langley Dec 17, 2025 ▶ 8:35 “How We Can Eliminate Crime” | Ben Horowitz and Garrett Langley
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 Not checkable as stated
Langley: San Francisco's public safety tech innovations are 100% privately funded
“So if you look at all of the latest innovations in San Francisco, a hundred percent private funded.”
Garrett Langley Dec 17, 2025 ▶ 30:20 “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
Assertion Contradicted
Langley: Most homicides are now random drug or gang incidents
“The majority of crime was domestic. You would kill a partner, you would kill a girlfriend or boyfriend, so it was it was a not randomized crime. Now the majority of homicides are random. It is a drug deal gone, gone wrong. It is a gang rivalry over territory. …”
Garrett Langley Dec 17, 2025 ▶ 21:04 “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
Dec 17, 2025
Assertion Partly supported
Langley: Atlanta police staffing dropped to 60% before recovering
“Atlanta is, was at a low, was at 60% staffed. They're now up to 75, 80.”
Garrett Langley Dec 17, 2025 ▶ 22:16 “How We Can Eliminate Crime” | Ben Horowitz and Garrett Langley
Dec 17, 2025 positive
Insight
Langley: A Teach for America for police would fix staffing shortages
“Why not create a Teach for America for law enforcement? Where you say, look, if you've got student debt, and you go serve in your community for two years, four years as a patrol officer, crime analysts, like, there's a... Yeah. Ton of roles you can have in a p…”
Garrett Langley Dec 17, 2025 ▶ 2:14 “How We Can Eliminate Crime” | Ben Horowitz and Garrett Langley
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