A drone provided situational awareness that revealed a reported 'guy with a shotgun' was actually a janitor with a broom, de-escalating a potentially dangerous police response.

1:00were able to de-escalate a situation." I I remember a story from uh one story where somebody at night someone called 911 and said, "Hey, there's a guy in the alleyway with a shotgun." Well, you can imagine how a police officer would respond to that call, but it turned out the drone provided uh you know, situational awareness and said, "Wait, there's just a janitor with a broom." That's not a guy with a

1:20shotgun. And it totally de-escalates the situation. Uh so, it was really in- incredible. Um Any- Anything else we should know, Rahul, about What Where are we in the sort of na- nationwide in the state of drone deployment? What Are Are people just going to start see drones flying around? Is that Is that where we are? Yeah, look. I mean, I I would Drones are they're they're flying

1:41robots. Um and as we see uh robotics sweep every industry, we like all these industries are looking for ways to either automate things, make things more efficient, make things more effective. Uh drones are a similar piece of that. And in public safety, the short answer is we are going to see more drones. We're going to see also potentially more hostile drones that we have to be prepared for.

2:03Um you're going to see, you know, more police and fire department drones are, you know, responding to fire calls across the country. And Flock Safety, you know, we it's not just about drones for us. Like we have multitudes of sensors in in the communities. We have license plate reading cameras. We have, you know, gunshot detection capabilities. All of this is coming together. All this data, where, you know, you're

2:25able to determine, "Oh, that's an Amber Alert vehicle." And the drone takes off and chases the Amber Alert vehicle. Or you hear a gunshot, you know, go off and the drone finds a, you know, a shooter getting into a car and driving off and then pursuing the vehicle even on the highways, you know, with with DPS. That's something that it's kind of almost hard to see that it isn't

2:43inevitable. We can't do that with a helicopter today unless you just kept five helicopters up 24/7 and that's just not sustainable. This is the only way to actually achieve that level of safety. I I joked earlier that uh it's a bad time to be an enemy of America, you know, from Maduro to Al-Mancho to uh the Ayatollah. But it sounds like it's going to be a bad time