Inspired with Alexa von Tobel
00:17:20 · Garrett Langley, Alexa von Tobel
[00:17:20] S0: Yeah. So here's another good one. There's a small town in Illinois, and I won't name the city. But it's a small town. Let's call it seven to 8,000 people, mostly residential. This is maybe two years ago. And they had this consistent case where between three and 04:00, so right during school pickup, a black tinted out SUV would break into homes. So, like, this seems like a pretty reasonable case. Right? Like, the the person would take off their license plate. They go into the communities to block SUV. So the police department created an alert that said, hey. The next time we see a black SUV with tinted windows without a license plate driving between three and 4PM when it enters a neighborhood, we wanna treat it like it's a stolen phone. It's like, one, it is illegal to drive it on a license plate. But two, in this small town, it's just they got hit over and over again. And, like, that person wound up getting arrested the next day once they added that alert. And so you look at that, and, like, there's nothing necessarily suspicious about driving between three and four and a blacked out SUV normally, except in that town. [00:18:20] S2: So basically, your point is, like, you can get incredibly specific about what you want the videos and all of the data that's coming through to go flag and then find it nearly instantly the next time that it's flagged.
00:18:20 · Alexa von Tobel, Garrett Langley
[00:18:20] S2: So basically, your point is, like, you can get incredibly specific about what you want the videos and all of the data that's coming through to go flag and then find it nearly instantly the next time that it's flagged. [00:18:35] S0: Yeah. Or like I was... We have a lot of customers too around in the industrial space, like oil rigs and manufacturing facilities. And these are, you know, massive campuses. Right? Tens to hundreds of acres. It would be impossible to surveil or protect this area with humans. And so they deploy our cameras, and they can teach the camera how to call 911. So it's like, oh Wow. There should never be a human in this area. If we ever see a human on this camera, call 911. Or if we see a human after hours, or in the case of somewhere in local law enforcement, you have this problem in New York too. These, like, street takeovers where these gangs will shut down an intersection and do donuts. Well, they can program the camera to say, hey. If we ever see 20 cars in this intersection, 15 cars intersection, that's really strange. Notify the nearest law enforcement officer, and they'll get an alert in their patrol vehicle and can respond really quickly.
00:18:35 · Garrett Langley, Alexa von Tobel
[00:18:35] S0: Yeah. Or like I was... We have a lot of customers too around in the industrial space, like oil rigs and manufacturing facilities. And these are, you know, massive campuses. Right? Tens to hundreds of acres. It would be impossible to surveil or protect this area with humans. And so they deploy our cameras, and they can teach the camera how to call 911. So it's like, oh Wow. There should never be a human in this area. If we ever see a human on this camera, call 911. Or if we see a human after hours, or in the case of somewhere in local law enforcement, you have this problem in New York too. These, like, street takeovers where these gangs will shut down an intersection and do donuts. Well, they can program the camera to say, hey. If we ever see 20 cars in this intersection, 15 cars intersection, that's really strange. Notify the nearest law enforcement officer, and they'll get an alert in their patrol vehicle and can respond really quickly. [00:19:31] S2: I mean, it it feels like what's happening is you're really building this observation layer that then can do an incredible amount, which kind of brings me to some of the questions I'm most excited to ask you, which is you're creating with Flock Safety this incredible observability layer that then allows smart, more informed people to figure out what they want to be flagged on. If you fast forward ten years, what [00:19:59] S0: do [00:19:59] S2: you think public safety could look like? And what... Like, how do you think about the evolution of flock safety in that category?
00:19:59 · Alexa von Tobel, Garrett Langley
[00:19:59] S2: you think public safety could look like? And what... Like, how do you think about the evolution of flock safety in that category? [00:20:06] S0: So I think there's a few parts that I'd look at. The first is, you know, I've been going back and forth with a couple of chiefs and mayors in major cities and trying to ask the question of, like, why isn't there a Teach For America style concept for local law enforcement? Like, how do we actually rebuild kind of the public perception of what it means to be a public servant? Because I think Teach for America did an incredible job for our elementary and middle school and high school system to bring in people who wanna just help the world. So I think there's this idea that that we have at least where if you look at a police department today, let's call it a third, a third, a third, a third in patrol, a third in investigations, and then a third in back of house. And the back of house is like report writing. It's policy writing. It's going through all of the challenges of running a police department today that didn't exist a decade ago. I think all that goes away. Like, that that is just so obviously can be replaced with software and AI. [00:21:08] S2: Of course. That's what's happening in medicine. Right?
00:21:08 · Alexa von Tobel, Garrett Langley
[00:21:08] S2: Of course. That's what's happening in medicine. Right? [00:21:10] S0: What you notice in medicine too is that the bedside manners and their efficacy efficacy goes up because they're spending less time being a note taker and more time being a doctor. And more importantly, being a doctor, you're having a physical, very human interaction with. And so when I think about law enforcement in a decade from now, I'd like to imagine a world where our our investigations unit actually has come down. Our back of calluses come down dramatically. And we've reallocated all of that resourcing into a patrol led model that's very community oriented. And what I mean by that is, you know, I think about my own experience in Atlanta. I don't know the officer that patrols my neighborhood. I think that's a total shame. Was like, when I'm in a moment of crisis, I kinda wanna know who that person is before that happens. But today, they're so overworked and understaffed. All they can do is respond from 911 to 911 and never catch a breath. And so I have this vision, Alexa, of a world where can we double the size of something like the Atlanta Police Department's patrol unit? So they have more time to spend in the, more time to build relationships, and get rid of all the back of the house stuff that's, like, not... It's not critical to be done by humans. But there's gotta be a way we can do it more effectively.
00:22:25 · Alexa von Tobel
[00:22:25] S2: So basically, what you're saying is actually shifting potentially about a third of the workforce into the field such that we actually have safer streets, safer homes, and potentially even increasing the bedside manner of... And and I I did think about this the other day. It's funny that you you say that. I was like, I wonder who would be the person that would show up at my house if I had, like, a mate. And I was like, I I should know like that. And and they made that, like, I know who my local representative is hard. Like, why don't I know that? Because god forbid something horrible happens. I I do wanna know. I actually like to use the minority port kind of style advance because we've all seen that movie of just like technology being so good that at some point it can even predict a crime is about to happen and stop it and serve... And, I mean, you have gunshot detection. I mean... And that can call 911 immediately with... As a parent of three kids, like, think I... Please do more of that. Yeah. But talk a little bit about what are the things that you have to be really thoughtful about so that we don't end up in, a minority port style where, like, a robot comes and, you know, cuffs me?