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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.”
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.”
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.”
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…”
Langley: Police staffing shortages are driven entirely by cultural stigma
“That it's entirely cultural. So, I mean, because you think about it, there's nothing has changed unless, That would indicate some percentage of people who were born and wanted to serve has changed. The only thing that's changed is the stigma attached to the jo…”
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. …”
Langley: Flock Safety technology will assist in 1 million arrests this year
“Yeah, we'll have to do about a million arrests this year.”
Langley: Privileged residents demand less policing while vulnerable residents request more
“The number of times we've been in debates where you've got a privileged person in a community Articulating a desire for less policing, yet the person who actually need it, needs it, is sitting there saying, wait, wait, wait, wait, time out, I actually want mor…”
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.”
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.”
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.”
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.”
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%.”
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…”
Langley: The majority of gun violence is never reported to police
“Majority of gun violence does not get reported.”
Langley: Mass incarceration imposes a double economic penalty on society
“If I woke up in 10 years and all we had done was put a lot of people in prison, it was actually double bad. Yeah. Because now prison's already very expensive. There's an economic cost of now that person's no longer productive in society, like.”
Langley: Atlanta Police Foundation provides $30M annually to local police
“In Atlanta I'm on the police foundation board. Yeah. I think we, Contribute about thirty million dollars a year to the police department.”
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.”
Langley: Flock Safety helped return over 450 missing children this year
“We helped return over 450 missing children this year.”
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 …”
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.”