Disclosure
Langley: Flock lost a Mexican deal to Hikvision after pricing 10x higher
“So we pursued one really big deal last year in Mexico. We had support from one of our investors, like we should go after cigar and great. And they had connections to the Mexican government. And so we got all the way to the finish line, and it was us versus Hik…”
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.”
Opinion
Langley: The Whole Concept of Prison Will Never Work
“And the whole concept of prison will never work.
Like, and there are some incredibly well-run prisons with really well-intentioned wardens doing the best of their ability, but the concept of putting a bunch of violent people together is, like, by default flawe…”
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Langley: Flock Safety cleared over one million US crimes last year
“So we're, last year, we helped clear just north of a million crimes in America.”
Assertion Not publicly verifiable
Langley: Cartels fly night-vision drones to case Virginia homes
“In one of the counties we work with, it's an affluent-ish county in the Virginia area South American cartels fly illegal drones through these neighborhoods. They'll flip on night vision, look through houses to see if anyone's home, then go break in.”
Disclosure
Flock Safety avoids facial recognition due to controversy
“We don't do facial recognition for that reason, because it's too controversial, but that's, it's counterintuitive to me when the technology gets better every day.”
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Langley: Body cameras exonerate officers in majority of foul play cases
“In the majority of cases that I see, where foul play is called, it is almost always the inverse. Where a law enforcement officer was just trying to do their job, and on the other side, there was other mental health issue, there was something gone wrong, and it…”
Assertion Partly supported
Langley: Cobb County solves 100% of violent crimes
“Cobb County would be one which is like the second largest county... If you commit violence in Cobb County, you will get arrested.”
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.”
Disclosure
Flock Built AI Agent to Flag Vehicles Following Armored Cars
“So we built an agent that tracks armored cars. And so, at all times, it is literally saying, okay, here's our truck. If we ever see other vehicles tracking this car, flag them automatically.”
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Langley: Majority of 911 calls do not require a human officer response
“Majority of the calls actually never need a human to show up.”
Insight
Langley: Unlike software, every major decision in hardware is an irreversible one-way door
“Every decision you make in hardware is millions of dollars at a minimal, and often tens of millions of dollars. And so when you grow up in this Silicon Valley mindset of, like, everything's a two-way door. Bullshit. Hardware, everything's a one-way door.”
Assertion Contradicted
Langley: Flock Safety's drone camera can read license plates nearly a mile away
“Like, we can zoom, we can read a license plate almost a mile away. Like, crazy specs. Great thermal.”
Insight
Langley: Legal privacy precedents collapse when surveillance tech becomes cheap
“The other analogy that would be the butterfly effect, which is like when things are much, much cheaper and much, much easier, a historical precedent gets thrown away.”
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.”
Disclosure
Langley: Flock Scaled First $20M–$40M ARR Solely Through Local TV News
“We might be the only company that for the first, let's call it, 20 or 30, forty million of ARR, strictly driven off of five o'clock news. That was our only growth channel.”
Disclosure
Langley: Flock covers over 6,000 cities and 50% of US population
“Yeah, so it's just over 6000 cities. So it's like well north of 50% of America that's covered by Flock.”
Disclosure
Langley: Flock is deployed in every major US city except Manhattan
“So there's about 17,000 cities in the U.S., and we have all the big ones outside of Manhattan at this point.”
Disclosure
Langley: Flock Safety reached $500M in ARR in seven years
“And then, you know, the business has gone from zero to, you know, about five hundred million in ARR in the last seven years, building cameras, drones, and selling it to the government, which is like three strikes are out.”
Assertion Supported
Langley: Stolen vehicles take 24 hours to reach the FBI database
“They will immediately put it in the Bay Area Flock hotlist immediately. It will take 24 hours to make it to the FBI hotlist. And that's a, you know, CSV file that gets sent around on FTP servers across the US.”
Opinion
Langley: Physical surveillance faces unfairly higher privacy standards than digital tracking
“Because we operate in the physical world, we are held to a higher standard, which I think is a shame because personal opinion, what I do online is way more interesting and telling about my personality and my life than what I do in the real world.”
Assertion Supported
Langley: Federal law prevents police from shooting down criminal drones
“And then legally, even to today, law enforcement is not allowed to engage that drone. They can't take it down. It's FAA airspace. It's not law enforcement airspace.”
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.”
Prediction Open · timeframe Mar 2027
Langley: US crime rate is down and will continue falling
“It is down. I think it'll continue to go down.”
Garrett Langley