The Crime Crisis In America and How Technology Fixes It

What It Covers

Garrett Langley (Flock Safety CEO) and Ben Horowitz discuss eliminating crime through intelligent policing technology, examining Las Vegas's experiment with license plate readers, drones, and real-time crime centers to increase clearance rates while addressing privacy concerns.

Key Questions Answered

• •Policing Staffing Crisis Solution: Create a national Teach for America-style program where college graduates serve two to four years in law enforcement roles in exchange for complete student debt forgiveness, addressing both staffing shortages and skill gaps while elevating police profession status.
• •Murder Clearance Rate Crisis: Outside Las Vegas, the national murder clearance rate sits at 47 percent, meaning suspects have a coin flip chance of escaping prosecution. Vegas achieves over 90 percent clearance through technology integration and community policing, demonstrating intelligence-based approaches work better than mass incarceration.
• •Technology Investment ROI: Police departments cannot afford marginal technology investments despite transformative potential. Private sector contributions of under one percent of police budgets through public-private partnerships can completely modernize departments, as demonstrated in San Francisco where all recent innovations are 100 percent privately funded.
• •Precision Policing Outcomes: Flock Safety cameras enabled over one million correct arrests and returned 450 missing children in one year. Drone deployment in Vegas reduced police shootings of suspects by 75 percent by providing overhead intelligence, allowing officers to approach situations with full situational awareness instead of uncertainty.