Cheeky Pint Garrett Langley of Flock Safety on building technology to solve crime
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Mar 5, 2026 
Garrett Langley, founder and CEO of Flock Safety, builds license-plate-reading cameras, drones, and a public-safety OS. He talks about solving opportunistic crime at scale. Topics include solar-powered cameras, autonomous drones, orchestration with 911, privacy trade-offs, hardware one-way decisions, and how tech helps clear crimes faster.
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Use Stronger Tools Only For More Severe Crimes
- Match the sophistication of investigative tools to crime severity: allow advanced tech for serious crimes but restrict petty surveillance.
- Garrett argues facial recognition should be banned for shoplifting yet allowed for homicides or crimes against children with strict rules.
Vehicle-Centric Surveillance Can Reduce Biased Policing
- Objective, vehicle-focused detection (LPR) reduces biased policing by targeting crimes in real time rather than policing historically high-crime neighborhoods.
- Oakland adopted Flock to focus patrols on currently suspicious vehicles instead of biased stop patterns.
Criminals Turned Logistics Into Billion Dollar Theft Scheme
- Organized Eastern European groups bought legitimate freight brokers, bid low, loaded containers with product and dissolved companies to steal $7M in a single day.
- Garrett used this to show thieves moved upstream to logistics and distribution theft that's harder to detect.
