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The a16z Show

What It Takes to Clear a Million Crimes a Year with Flock Safety's CEO

The a16z Show

a16z

Culture, Business, Science, Disruption, Technology, Software Eating The World, Entrepreneurship, Innovation

4.21.2K Ratings

🗓️ 11 March 2026

⏱️ 107 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, previously aired on Cheeky Pint, Garrett Langley describes how a stolen gun in his Atlanta neighborhood led him to build Flock Safety, now deployed in more than 6,000 cities and involved in clearing over a million crimes last year. He covers how the product has evolved from license plate cameras to drones, real-time 911 integration, and an AI-powered orchestration layer for city safety.

Transcript

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0:00.0

South American cartels fly illegal drones through these neighborhoods.

0:05.0

They'll flip on night vision, look through houses to see people's home, then go break in.

0:12.0

I was working with a town in Tennessee. It's a good city. Their average response time to 9-1

0:18.0

won't call seven and a half minutes. Their drone from us gets there in 68 seconds.

0:22.6

It's just like a better quality of service.

0:24.6

You don't wind up policing where crime has happened historically.

0:28.2

You end up policing where crime is happening right now in real time.

0:31.9

And that is a fairly fundamental shift in how policing works.

0:36.8

The majority of criminals, let's call it 99 99% of criminals, are not evil people.

0:41.3

They're not.

0:42.3

Like, evil is a random act of violence, and that is exceptionally rare.

0:46.8

It's very rare.

0:47.6

It's all opportunism.

0:48.1

It's all opportunism.

0:50.2

In 2017, someone stole a gun from a car in Garrett Langley's neighborhood.

0:55.0

The Atlanta Police Department came, shrugged, and left.

0:59.0

No fingerprints, no investigation.

1:02.0

The crime would go unsolved.

1:05.0

So Langley, an electrical engineer, built a camera to track every car entering the neighborhood.

1:10.0

Two months later, another gun was stolen.

1:13.6

This time, he handed police a single plate, the only car that didn't belong.

1:18.6

Hours later, an arrest.

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