The Crime Crisis In America and How Technology Fixes It

If you don't enforce crime, what you end up is with lost generations. Yep. I woke up in ten years and all we had done was put a lot of people in prison. It's actually double that. Yeah. Actually Well, we're throwing people away. Right? Like, you know, that's the worst possible thing. So the best thing is to say, hey. Look. If you commit crimes, you're gonna get caught. And then that kind of changes the societal incentives and the culture and everything else. I mean, look. If I can become a criminal and make, like, 10 x what I can make in a minimum wage job as an entry thing, like Right. You know, like and then then in my neighborhood, it's not even like, there's no social stigma with it. In fact, like, you're looked Yeah. Up upon if you're a criminal. The it's just too easy, and it's just too much. It's a societal failure Yeah. For everybody who's in that situation. Outside of Vegas, the international average is around 47% clearance rate. So you have a coin flip For murder. For murder. You have a 53 percent chance of getting away with murder. Just clip coins. I already murders when we do get criticisms of people that are less familiar with technology, I laugh because I'm like, do you realize if the federal government wanted to find you? A license plate reader is the dumbest way to do it. I will just get a cell phone done. Yeah. And I will know your exact location in real time and I'll tell you. By the way, which is what they do. Yes. But it's way more effective. So I think for the privacy thing, it's it's quite it's quite false. The trust is real though. And so if you go to some communities, they do not trust their police department. Yep. Imagine if a major American city actually set a goal to eliminate crime, not just manage it. What would that take in practice, and what would it feel like for the people who live there every day? In today's episode, we get as close to that question as you can in the real world. I'm joined by Garrett Langley, founder and CEO of Flock Safety, and Ben Horowitz, cofounder of a sixteen z. Garrett and his team are behind a lot of the new intelligent policing infrastructure you're starting to see in cities, from license plate readers and gunshot detection to drones and real time crime centers. Bette has been working with Las Vegas on a very public experiment in using that technology to drive crime down while actually improving trust in the police. We talk about what a serious national strategy to reduce crime would look like from staffing and culture to products and policy. We get into the Teach for America idea for policing, why clearance rates are collapsing in most cities but rising in Vegas, how to think about defund the police …