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

“Depending on the size of the city, it's enough to dispatch an officer. I think if you're a major city, like a San Francisco, you have enough going on.”

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5 Mar 2026
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Cheeky Pint

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…Yes. It provides enough reason to pull someone over. Yes. Depending on the size of the city, it's enough to dispatch an officer. I think if you're a major city, like a San Francisco, you have enough going on. But if you're a foster city, you're a smaller town where thankfully you don't have violent criminals running around every day, you're like, "Oh, that's weird. We have two cars with the same license plate in different parts of the city. We should go see what's going on." It strikes me that a way you can think about what Flock is doing is not changing any of the norms around privacy but really expanding law enforcement's bandwidth to go deal with stuff. And so I don't think anyone really has an expectation of a right to privacy of the car they are driving just being observed from a distance or their license plate being readable when out on a public road. But if a car is called in and stolen, rather than officers manually looking for that car and that license plate, instead you can just much more quickly get it. And yet this kind of stuff ends up super controversial from, I don't say super controversial, but it ends up controversial from a privacy point of view. And so, I don't know, is that take too generous? Is there a steelman on the other side? Why is it—…

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