John Collison: evaluation

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…No, it's people's lives, you know. Then the other thing I hadn't realized you guys were doing is the drone assistance where, again, this sounds to me, obviously already it's the case that many police departments have a helicopter and then for very serious crimes, they will task it. But that's expensive, very limited resource. I think what you're doing is allowing for some manner of air support to just be much more cost-effective and available to more officers. That's right, yeah. I think it's another example where there's just a lot of tasks we ask law enforcement officers to conduct that a drone could do faster, more effectively, and cheaper. If it's calling out a hit-and-run, great, send the drone. I was working with a town in Tennessee, it's a good city, their average response time to 911 calls seven and a half minutes. Their drone from us gets there in 68 seconds. It's like a better quality of service. The incremental cost is less than the cost of one single officer. It's really nice when you see technology deliver both a 10x better product at a dramatically lower cost. That's how it's supposed to work, and it's working for them.…

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