Flock's 'audit assistance' tool detects and flags abnormal usage patterns, such as an officer repeatedly searching for the same license plate without a legitimate reason, to identify potential misconduct.
Garrett details a new 'audit assistance' tool that helps identify police misconduct by flagging abnormal usage patterns, such as an officer repeatedly searching for a specific license plate without adding it to a 'hot list' for the entire department. ✦ AI generated
Garrett Langley · All-In Podcast · 2026-08-18 · original ↗
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“Tell us what does abuse look like?”
So here's a good example. Um, this is the easiest one. Let's say you're an officer and you'll say you're trying to stalk me. You would look for me. You'd say, 'I'm looking for Garrett's car. It's ABC124.' And you'd search for it and kind of figure out where it is. And then the next day, you'd search for me again. And then the next day, you'd search for me again. That's very abnormal. If you were truly trying to find me because I committed a crime, you would have put my tag on the hot list so that anyone else in the police department would have been also notified because you might be asleep, you might be off shift because I'm a criminal.
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20:09built four months ago, we built this new tool called audit assistance because, you know, we solved a million crimes last year. So we have a pretty good pretty good sense for what normal usage looks like. And then we had about, you know, just under a dozen abuses over the last eight years that we had detected and said, but we also kind of know what abuse looks like.
20:28>> Tell us what does abuse look like? >> So here's a good example. Um, this is the easiest one. Let's say you're an officer and you'll say you're trying to stalk me. You would look for me. You'd say, "I'm looking for Garrett's car. It's ABC124." And you'd search for it and kind of figure out where it is. And then the next day, you'd search for me again. And then the next day, you'd
20:46search for me again. That's very abnormal. If you were truly trying to find me because I committed a crime, you would have put my tag on the hot list so that anyone else in the police department would have been also notified because you might be asleep, you might be off shift because I'm a criminal. So, everyone has a right. Everyone's trying to find me. If you're stalking me, you
21:06don't want anyone else to know what's happening. And so that's maybe that's the easiest one we can flag. But so we built this tool four months ago. We kind of put it out there not knowing is it going to work well? How how how how good is it? How much signal noise? And so you've seen the headlines over the last few weeks. We've caught a lot of bad cops
21:25and and a ton. >> Yeah. >> Yeah. And it's it's a ton. It's it's more than I ever would hoped. Um, and you look at my home state here in Georgia where, you know, some of our customers have been with us for years. And I have to give those chiefs an applaud because they're not hiding behind it. They're publicly saying, "I fired nine officers today, which is
21:44which is the the most severe offense in Georgia for for abusing the system. They're out of my police department. I don't want them." >> Wow. >> And I think that's good. And like we should be we shouldn't be criticizing those guys. We should be saying thank you. And who's next? Like who else wants to have a clean police department? And so we we now are requiring that as a
- ·Flags abnormal license plate search patterns
- ·Repeatedly searching same plate without reason = red flag
- ·Legitimate investigations use 'hot list' to alert full department
- ·Tool identifies potential officer stalking or misuse
- ·Stalking pattern: officer searches same plate daily
- ·Legitimate pattern: suspect added to department-wide hot list
- ·Audit tool compares individual search habits to norms