Flock Safety has helped solve over a million crimes and find thousands of missing people by providing license plate reading and vehicle description technology.

2:44first two or three years in business, it was just neighborhoods. We sold a neighborhood, so we sold a license plate reading camera, which is pretty basic technology. A car drives by. We take a still image of vehicle. We read the license plate. And the system's gotten more sophisticated with time. We can detect things like a roof rack or a bumper sticker or dent or damage, but that's at at its core what the

3:06technology does. And if you look at like last year, to your point, we've had a tremendous impact on the country. um north of a million crimes solved using Flock. North of 10,000 people found who were missing. And that's everything from our grandparents with dementia to our children. Like just last week in Atlanta, there was a stolen car that happened to have a 2-year-old in the back seat. And thankfully, because of

3:30very hard work by Atlanta Police Department and our cameras, that little kid was safely returned within the hour. I don't know what that would have happened if without Flock. A and that's one story, but that's my own city last week. And you look at July as a, you know, as a data point, last month it was about 1,125 missing people and over 20,000 stolen cars. And those are the cars we use to

3:54drive our kids to school, to drive to work. And so we're in, you know, roughly six, you know, just over 6,000 or so cities um across the country. And it and that the consequence, you know, of being that consequential is people have a lot of questions and people have a lot of debates. And I think it's a it's a worthwhile thing to talk about what kind of society do we want to live in? I want

4:15to live in one where we're safer. Um, and I want to keep my privacy while I do it. But that is hard. You know, to find that balance is not easy. >> I remember when we had our first discussion, gosh, so many years ago on this week in startups, we were talking about it and I had brought up this, you know, hey, well, what happens about abuse in the system? Because once in a

4:32while you get a dirty cop. If you watch any kind of procedural TV, you watch Law and Order, you watch the Sopranos, the Sopran, you know, Tony Sopranos got a dirty cop who's, >> you know, you know, in the hole for, you know, some gambling debt and they run license plates for them, right? This is like a trope on the news. And it's a trope because it's common,