“I had this interesting conversation with an elected official in Illinois who was one of our largest antagonists, very anti-flock and really sad, really scary. She was the victim of political violence. Someone shot at her house, and the police used a flat camera to find that person. And lo and behold, to her credit, she changed, but she did change, and she's now one of our largest advocates, because she realizes you don't get to pick when you're the victim of violence.”
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“And if you look at like last year, to your point, we've had a tremendous impact on the country north of a million crimes solved using Flock, north of 10,000 people found who were missing.”
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Langley: 90% of crimes are solved within seven days of data retention
“We think 90% of crimes will get solved within seven days of data retention.”
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Disclosure
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“We don't do facial recognition. We don't capture video. We don't look inside the car. We don't even allow in our system to search for people for our licensing cameras. And that's in direct conflict with some of our biggest competitors who do all of the things …”
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AssertionPartly supported
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“They're publicly saying, I fired nine officers today, which is the most severe offense in Georgia for abusing the system. They're out of my police department. I don't want them.”
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Disclosure
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“Yeah, that I don't want to do. Like, I think we've been really consistent that we never want to be a company that defines suspicion. That's really dangerous.”
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“And our competitors to your point, yes, they run more reckless. They run without these tools, without the scrutiny. And I think it's gonna catch up to them. It will catch up to them eventually.”
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