I woke up Sunday morning to the most shocking email I've ever received from a company.

Every piece of that technology is the equivalent of three police officers.

It can get into places and see things and detect things that I don't care how good of a cop you are you

would never be able to see it. Show me a list of crimes that aren't being solved

in a city and we'll go build technology to change that. I'm sending human

beings through a door with an armed

subject. We have incredibly blue cities, incredibly red cities. We have purple cities.

We've got from Berkeley, California, to Dallas, Texas, to Dallas, Georgia.

30% of their homicides are resolved.

If you believe you can get away with committing the most heinous crime

in any of these cities, you are going to continue to commit those

crimes. At A16Z's recent LP Summit we brought together hundreds of our

limited partners and portfolio founders back together again in Las Vegas.

Now this event was overflowing with stories of how founders are challenging the status quo

and harnessing technology to make the world a better place.

However, there is one important industry where lives are directly on the line.

That is, of course course public safety.

Yet, despite being so critical, the industry is equally misunderstood.

And that is why we've chosen to open up one of our summit sessions to the public to show what a better

version of the future can really look like even in an industry where technology

is not always celebrated to say the least.

So today you'll get to hear from Garrett Langley, founder of flock safety.

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