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So we were just talking about this wild crime spree that happened this weekend in Austin. So it seems like it was, was it teenagers that were doing this? Yeah. Yeah? 15 and 17. You're not on the microphone there, fellow. 15 and 17 years old. 15 and 17 years old. It's terrible. What was the purpose? Just going crazy? I think so. Yeah, they stole cars and stole guns and switched cars. And they shot at like 10 different locations. One person's at least one person's in critical condition. Yeah. They shot multiple people. Yeah. So you were saying that the reason why they had a hard time catching them is because of they had flock cameras in Austin. Yeah. But then they shut those cameras off for political reasons. Correct. Yes. So please explain that. Yeah. So these guys are driving around in cars. And yeah, they're switching cars, whatever. And they went to like a dozen locations and like fight, you know, and tried shooting buildings and people and houses and all kinds of stuff. And so, okay, so guys running around. So there's a system called flock, which is one of our companies.

And what they do, it's kind of like in the movies, you take all the municipal cameras and traffic cameras and everything and you feed them into an AI, and the AI is able to first find a license plate in real time. So you can find that. But second, you can actually find a car even if you don't have the license plate. As you can find like distinct markings on the car, it'll track the car.

And so this thing is deployed.

It's the license plate. You can find distinct markings on the car. It'll track the car. And so this thing is deployed. It's sold to city governments. It's used all over the country. It solves crimes. Every day we get reports on, you know, carjackings with kids in the backseat and their lives get saved because, you know, they track them down. So a lot of tons of cities have this and they love it. in cities like Austin with the intense politics, they run into backlash on privacy and surveillance concerns.

And so Austin had flock and then turned it off.

And as a consequence, they were not able to find these guys for, I don't know, whatever,

several days.

And then what happened that the late breaking news today is these guys drove into some adjacent town,

you know, up against Austin, and Flock was live in that town.

And so Flock tagged them the minute they drove into that town, and then they caught the guys.

Subsequent to that, the mayor, your mayor in Austin of your mayor and your chief of police gave a press conference and said, we really need to rethink this because it's crazy to have the ability to solve crimes and stop crimes and not be able to use it.

Yeah.

So the concern is mass surveillance, right?

And the concern is that someone's going to abuse this and use AI for nefarious purposes, right?

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