Garrett Langley of Flock Safety on building technology to solve crime

That's incredible.

And I feel like something non-American listeners mightn't realize is, so I grew up in Ireland, you know, a country of 5 million people, and there is just a police force, the Gardish Ikana, like the national...

For the whole country.

Exactly, police force for the whole country.

And that is a relatively common model in lots of places.

In the United States...

It's the opposite.

It's very localized.

And just maybe you want to talk about the average size.

And I feel like what you're providing is...

in some ways, scale economies and helping police forces coordinate with other

agencies.

There's a dynamic that people don't understand, which you're right.

So Ireland, most of the EU, Australia has six police departments.

So I mean, let's call it effectively the same.

It's a really big country.

It's a lot of land.

Most of South America, like America is really the only country that operates under a model where local municipalities provide a law enforcement service.

It's very rare.

Yeah.

And the benefit, the pro is very straightforward, which is like you actually have a good chance of knowing the police officer that has your territory and has your patch of dirt.

The downside is criminals don't really care where cities start and stop.

They don't care where states start and stop.

Yet historically, law enforcement agencies were incapable of sharing information.

To give you a sense of timeline, the cloud was only recently made legal in Florida as recently as 2022.