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5 Mar 2026 Cheeky Pint Garrett Langley of Flock Safety on building technology to solve crime

“I will get away with this, therefore I will do it. I'm going to sneak out of my house because I'm not going to get caught.”

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5 Mar 2026
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Cheeky Pint

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…It has a deterrent effect. Gosh, yeah, you don't want to get caught. And that's the unintuitive or the counterintuitive point on crime is that most people would intuitively say, "If the punishment is really, really bad, people will do less of it." But you were 16, 18 at one point. You operate on a Boolean mindset. I will get away with this, therefore I will do it. I'm going to sneak out of my house because I'm not going to get caught. You don't care if the punishment is being grounded for a week or a month, you're going to get away with it. It's just will I get caught or not, yeah.…

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