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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.”
Langley: Reckless competitors lack audit tools and it will catch up
“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.”
Langley: Flock Safety will never build AI that defines suspicion
“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.”
Langley: Flock avoids facial recognition and video capture unlike competitors
“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 …”
Langley: Flock solved 1M crimes and found 10K missing people last year
“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.”
Langley: Nine Georgia police officers fired for abusing Flock system
“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.”
Langley: Anti-Flock Illinois Official Became Advocate After Flock Solved Shooting At Her Home
“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 camer…”
Langley: Flock camera vandal in Midwest faces 15 to 20 years
“And I saw this individual who just got arrested in, I think it was either Ohio or Illinois. And Jason, he's facing like, 15 to 20 years in jail.”
Langley: Flock reduced default camera data retention from 30 to 7 days
“And so for the longest time, 30 days was our default. We've recently shifted that down to seven days.”
Langley: Flock Safety supporters are typically people without other security means
“It's worth looking at who is so against what we do and who is so for it. And it's typically people who don't have any other way to protect themselves. Who need this, right? Who want this.”
Langley: Demographic and wealth disparities directly determine perceived personal safety
“Today, depending on the color of your skin and your wealth level and your race, I'm sorry, and your sex determines how safe you feel. Women feel less safe than men. That's a fact. But minorities feel less safe than you and me. That's a fact. If you live in a l…”
Langley: Tech providers must set strong policy defaults for police chiefs
“And that chief's relying on me to educate him on what I think is best. And so I do think the responsibility falls on us to give those strong defaults and then allow them to pivot against it. And still respect the democratic process, but focus on the defaults.”
Langley: LPR is under 50% of Flock's revenue as drones grow fastest
“So drones is probably our fastest growing business unit right now. You know, our LPR business is just under 50% kind of our forward looking revenue.”
Langley: Flock Safety operates in over 6,000 US cities
“And so we're in, you know, roughly six, you know, just over 6000 or so cities across the country.”
Langley: Flock enables vehicle queries by visual defects like missing hubcaps
“The detectives, they would go in and say, okay, show me all the cars in this 15 minute window that did not have a back right hubcap. And that's the beginning of an investigation, not the end of an investigation.”
Langley: Internal Morale Suffered the Biggest Damage From Flock's PR Crisis
“You know, I think the biggest damage is the internal morale, right?”
Langley: Close to 20 cities have turned Flock cameras back on
“We've had close to 20 cities already turned their cameras back on.”
Langley: The last local government tech company IPO was over 20 years ago
“The last company to go public that serviced local government It was over 20 years ago.”
Flock Safety makes audit assistance tool mandatory for police customers
“And so we now are requiring that as a mandatory, it's not even a default, it's a mandatory feature you have to have turned on.”
Langley: New Hampshire Mandates Three-Minute Limit on ALPR Data Retention
“So you've got New Hampshire at three minutes.”
Langley: Flock Safety raised capital and sits at 0.1% churn
“You know, we raised more money at the beginning of the year. Companies still growing. We could be growing faster. If we used to have zero churn, now we have to your .1%.”
Langley: Flock attended nearly 10,000 city council meetings in the prior year
“And so I think last year we went to something close to 10,000 city council meetings as a business.”
Calacanis: Cities that dropped Flock will reconsider once guardrails are clear
“I predict as you explain this and you change the defaults and the audits get in place and the dirty cops get, you know, taken out of this, that you'll see some number of those cities, you know, and the city councils readdress this when things cool down a littl…”