Garrett Langley of Flock Safety on building technology to solve crime

Garrett Langley is the founder and CEO of Flock Safety, a public safety operating system that helps communities and law enforcement eliminate crime.

Garrett Langley is the founder and CEO of Flock Safety, a public safety operating system that helps communities and law enforcement eliminate crime. He sits down with John to discuss why most crime is opportunistic, how Flock helps solve over 1 million crimes a year (including 7% of reported crime in the US), and the engineering challenges of building solar-powered cameras and autonomous drones. They cover the shifting landscape of criminal technology, why hardware requires making “one-way door” decisions, and his vision for a future where technology prevents crime before it happens.…

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