Colonel Glover explains Arizona's push toward international intelligence partnerships and fusion-center collaboration, backed by AI, to preempt crime trends given the world's increasing interconnectedness. ✦ AI generated
Colonel Glover · a16z Podcast · 2026-05-18 · original ↗
starts at this moment · 6:06
“Talk about it, the Department of Public Safety, how you're working to really make sure that officers have the best information available.”
We're looking at being able to have the ability of having intelligence officers from, uh, Mexico, from the UAE, from Liberia, from different, uh, parts of the world because the world is getting a lot smaller... Being able to condense that down and distill it... and being able to back stop that with technology and AI helps us with being able to actually stop a lot of the trends before they start.
verbatim transcript · starts at 6:06
6:06officers have, uh, the best information available. Yeah, so one of the things that we're leaning into is well as is that we have the Arizona Counterterrorism and Center, the TIC. Um, so with fusion centers, the fusion centers around the the US are are collaborating and and working together in tandem to make sure that they're sharing information. Um, you have the, uh, TRX program which a lot of us are doing for FIFA right now
6:30because that's the that's the the big event that's coming up as well as the Olympics. Um, but one of the things in Arizona that I'm doing is I'm leaning heavily into be making sure that we're having sort of an international presence as well. So we have a lot of partnerships, um, with different groups, especially, you know, of course we are a border state, so we have the state of
6:47Sonora, Mexico that's right next to us. We're looking at being able to have the ability of having intelligence officers from, uh, Mexico, from the UAE, from Liberia, from different, uh, parts of the world because the world is getting a lot smaller. Uh, we all know that crime is happening everywhere. Being able to condense that down and distill it to where we can have good information sharing that's unclassified be able to
7:11share with one another on trends and being able to back stop that with technology and AI helps us with being able to actually stop a lot of the trends before they start. Absolutely. We saw, you know, very sadly in Austin that global events have local repercussions. So I think, uh, we've seen in New York City that their, uh, counterterrorism work, the NYPD, uh, has been very successful. I'm excited to hear that
7:34you're bringing that kind of a program into into Arizona. Uh, Rahul, you, you You you started out as a policeman, as a as a paramedic. Uh now that you've seen all this technology, some of which you've brought to bear in public safety, uh you know, do you think there's still great opportunities in public safety? What would you What advice would you start to give to founders who are, you
7:56know, less interested in optimizing ad clicks and, you know, more interested in actually building something that that helps first responders and save lives? And uh what would you say? You know, I already know great founders uh that are working in public safety. It's funny. The Colonel was talking about uh tracking the performance of his uh you know, the the members of his department. In Burnout, there's a