Drones can be sent to 911 calls before officers, providing a 40x optical zoom to assess threats and de-escalate situations that might otherwise lead to violence.
Garrett shares an example of how drones can be dispatched to 911 calls to provide immediate visual assessment, potentially de-escalating a dangerous situation before a police officer arrives on the scene. ✦ AI generated
Garrett Langley · All-In Podcast · 2026-08-18 · original ↗
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“How did they Yeah, that's how they drones. So drones is probably our fastest growing business unit right now.”
Instead, they launch the drone. The drone's at 400 feet, flying 60 miles an hour, so it gets there in under a minute as the crow flies. Yep. And it's got a 40x optical zoom, so it zooms all the way in. It's not a gun. It's a lighter. It's one of those toy like lighter things. That call the woman back and say, 'Hey, ma'am, it's just a lighter. You're okay.'
verbatim transcript · starts at 49:54
49:34we're not done. We got a we got a long road ahead of us and I think, you know, we didn't get to drones yet. >> So, how did they Yeah, that's how they drones. So drones is probably our fastest growing business unit right now. You know, our LPR business is just under 50% kind of of our forward-looking revenue. Um, so it's a big part of our business, but we've got drones, we've
49:54got live video cameras, we've got some really cool software. And you know, I think the story I share with you about drones, which is one of my favorite stories, is so these drones live um in a kind of a HVAC control box, a dock, per se, on top of a roof, typically like a police precinct or a fire department. And when a 911 call happens, instead of
50:12sending an officer first, you can send a drone. And so there's this really interesting case not too far from you up in the Dallas Fort Worth area where a woman, you know, at late at night at a gas station called 911 and said, "There's a man walking back and forth with a gun. I don't feel safe." Um, which obviously it's not illegal to to garnish a weapon in the state of Texas,
50:32but she was scared. Right. And >> well, you can wear one, but you can't be waving it around. >> Yeah. And he was fair enough. Fair enough. Yeah. And and so she called 911. And normally what would happen, right, is like one cop would have heard that, flip on the blue lights, race down there, their hearts racing, he's got his gun ready, and someone's about to die.
50:50>> Instead, they launch the drone. The drone's at 400 feet, flying 60 miles an hour, so it gets there in under a minute >> as the crow flies. >> Yep. And it's got a 40x optical zoom, so it zooms all the way in. It's not a gun. It's a lighter. It's one of those toy like lighter things. >> Yeah. >> That call the woman back and say, "Hey,
51:09ma'am, it's just a lighter. You're okay." And I share that story because so much of my businesses have related around solving crime, but it's more than crime. It's about safety. It's like, "How do we help the community feel safe?" And this is an example where like we demitated, we mitigated what would have been a really bad situation for everyone. And we have thousands and thousands of stories like that where
51:28communities are safer now with our drones. They're safer with our cameras. And to your earlier point, we just got to do a better job communicating how it all works. And we got to teach our customers how to do that, too. Um because we're only one company. We got thousands and thousands of customers. We we need their help too and telling the story. >> Yeah. I think that the new tool you're