Garrett Langley

16 statements across 1 episodes · 4 bullish · 7 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Mar 5, 2026 by Garrett Langley · across every show →

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Mar 5, 2026 positive
Opinion
Langley: Unsolved crimes mean there were not enough cameras deployed
“For every crime that occurs that doesn't get solved means we didn't have enough cameras.”
Garrett Langley Mar 5, 2026 ▶ 1:20:54 Garrett Langley of Flock Safety on building technology to solve crime
Mar 5, 2026 bearish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Langley: VC-backed public safety tech startups will fail or be consolidated
“I see a new VC backed company every day, and I'm like, there's just a, all these things are going out of business, so there's just going to be consolidation.”
Garrett Langley Mar 5, 2026 ▶ 58:37 Garrett Langley of Flock Safety on building technology to solve crime
Mar 5, 2026 positive
Disclosure
Langley: Flock lobbies for legislation enforcing civil liberty guardrails on surveillance
“We have a really good government affairs team that is lobbying for that kind of legislation to say, like, there's a way for us to both be safe and maintain civil liberties, and it needs to be legislated, though.”
Garrett Langley Mar 5, 2026 ▶ 1:22:08 Garrett Langley of Flock Safety on building technology to solve crime
Mar 5, 2026 negative
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Langley: Law enforcement customers do not regularly audit surveillance usage without mandates
“Not enough of our customers audit themselves on a regular basis. We can build software to make that easier, but we need to be pushed to do that. It was like, customers don't want it. They need to be told to do it.”
Garrett Langley Mar 5, 2026 ▶ 1:23:33 Garrett Langley of Flock Safety on building technology to solve crime
Mar 5, 2026 negative
Opinion
Langley: Surveillance laws banning specific use cases like marijuana are unenforceable bad policy
“To me, the worst bill is an unenforceable bill. So you can imagine a bill that's like, this product cannot be used for vile possession of marijuana. Like, how, who's gonna enforce it? How, how, and it's like, you might believe that, and that's great, but someo…”
Garrett Langley Mar 5, 2026 ▶ 1:24:47 Garrett Langley of Flock Safety on building technology to solve crime
Mar 5, 2026 negative
Opinion
Langley: Selling to local government has more negatives than positives
“Like it's, I would not wish upon anyone Selling to local government. It's more negatives than positives, always.”
Garrett Langley Mar 5, 2026 ▶ 1:28:06 Garrett Langley of Flock Safety on building technology to solve crime
Mar 5, 2026
Disclosure
Langley: Flock stores live video for seven days and LPR data for 30 days
“There's a, there's data retention where we protect, you know, how long something is stored. So for live video, it's typically seven days. For LPR data, it's typically 30 days. You can go longer or shorter if a democratically elected body votes on it.”
Garrett Langley Mar 5, 2026 ▶ 1:21:43 Garrett Langley of Flock Safety on building technology to solve crime
Mar 5, 2026 neutral
Disclosure
Langley: 80% to 90% of Flock Safety customers pay by check
“Not a single customer of ours pays via ACH to either check or credit card, and we do a lot of checks. I'd probably say 80%, 90% are checks, maybe higher.”
Garrett Langley Mar 5, 2026 ▶ 1:29:53 Garrett Langley of Flock Safety on building technology to solve crime
Mar 5, 2026 negative
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Langley: Major City Police Deprioritize Crimes Where No One Is Hurt
“So for most major cities, if a human is not physically hurt, the crime goes just to the bottom of the list.”
Garrett Langley Mar 5, 2026 ▶ 1:41 Garrett Langley of Flock Safety on building technology to solve crime
Mar 5, 2026
Disclosure
Langley: Flock Safety focused exclusively on neighborhoods for its first four years
“So it was all neighborhoods for the first three or four years of the business.”
Garrett Langley Mar 5, 2026 ▶ 5:10 Garrett Langley of Flock Safety on building technology to solve crime
Mar 5, 2026 negative
Opinion
Langley: Government RFPs are almost always tailored to a single vendor
“Everything goes to RFP, but the RFP is written for one vendor, so all it does is wind up taking an extra year, six months. That's like, that's, I get why RFPs exist, but they're not actually RFPs. I've never seen an RFP that's not written for one vendor. I'm s…”
Garrett Langley Mar 5, 2026 ▶ 1:27:27 Garrett Langley of Flock Safety on building technology to solve crime
Mar 5, 2026 negative
Insight
Langley: Traditional home security alerts crimes but fails to solve them
“They do two things that actually are not helpful. They tell you a crime has happened. They don't actually help you solve it. And then what about your neighbor? And so what we'd realize is that every single security system was focused on the individual.”
Garrett Langley Mar 5, 2026 ▶ 4:35 Garrett Langley of Flock Safety on building technology to solve crime
Mar 5, 2026 positive
Opinion
Langley: Communities should deploy abundant cameras alongside strictly restrictive usage controls
“For me at least, we should have an abundance of cameras and have an incredibly restrictive controls of how and when they're used.”
Garrett Langley Mar 5, 2026 ▶ 1:21:29 Garrett Langley of Flock Safety on building technology to solve crime
Mar 5, 2026
Assertion Partly supported
Langley: There are 400,000 legally organized neighborhood organizations in the US
“There's 400,000 neighborhoods in America, and there's no consolidation of, Providing safety for those communities. And when I say neighborhood, that is a, you know, legally binding organization that can sign a contract.”
Garrett Langley Mar 5, 2026 ▶ 3:58 Garrett Langley of Flock Safety on building technology to solve crime
Mar 5, 2026 neutral
Assertion Contradicted
Langley: Police helicopters increasingly disable ADS-B to evade criminal tracking
“We're seeing more and more police helicopters have to turn off ADS-B as well. Because like criminals have the same data that you have. And so most of the police officers actually fly without ADS, you know, which is like a whole challenge.”
Garrett Langley Mar 5, 2026 ▶ 1:08:40 Garrett Langley of Flock Safety on building technology to solve crime
Mar 5, 2026 positive
Insight
Langley: Tech sophistication for policing should scale with crime severity
“The framework that we use is, I don't know how you land this, is that the severity of a crime should be commiserate with the sophistication of technology.”
Garrett Langley Mar 5, 2026 ▶ 29:20 Garrett Langley of Flock Safety on building technology to solve crime
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