{"id":4981,"date":"2025-09-04T17:31:21","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T17:31:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/startup-crime-spy-cameras\/"},"modified":"2025-09-04T17:31:21","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T17:31:21","slug":"startup-crime-spy-cameras","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/startup-crime-spy-cameras\/","title":{"rendered":"AI Startup Says It Will End Crime by Blanketing the Entire United States in Ever-Watching Spy Cameras"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Crime rates in the United States, as a matter of statistical fact, have fallen drastically<\/a> over the past 30 years \u2014 but at the same time, due to a mix of sensational news reporting<\/a> and irresponsible political rhetoric<\/a>, the average American mistakenly believes they’re increasing<\/a>.<\/p>\n

And now, barreling into that reality is a 38-year-old tech bro who says his spying startup can solve it all for good.<\/p>\n

Garrett Langley is the CEO and cofounder of a surveillance startup called Flock Safety. Valued at $7.5 billion, according to Forbes<\/em><\/a>, Flock has amassed a matrix of over 80,000 “AI-powered” cameras throughout the US since its founding in 2017.<\/p>\n

As\u00a0Forbes\u00a0<\/em>adds, that intelligence web is now getting a boost in the form of “made in America” surveillance drones, which began rolling out to police departments in August.<\/p>\n

Langley’s billion-dollar elevator pitch goes a little something like this: whether you’re a police department, private business, or individual homeowner, if you let Flock into your life \u2014 through a never ending subscription<\/a>, of course \u2014 we can solve crime by 2035.<\/p>\n

It’s a tall task, to put it gently, but evidently one that Langley really believes in. “I\u2019ve talked to plenty of activists who think crime is just the cost of modern society. I disagree,” Langley told\u00a0Forbes<\/em>. “I think we can have a crime-free city and civil liberties… We can have it all.”<\/p>\n

Part of Flock’s draw, compared to the many other surveillance companies on offer, is its ever-expanding network. Flock’s partner companies like FedEx and Lowe’s, along with schools and property management groups, can agree to grant local law enforcement the use of their surveillance webs.<\/p>\n

In doing so on a mass scale, Flock effectively solves one of US law enforcement’s more irksome contradictions: the fact that, even though CCTV cameras are everywhere, the private and fragmented web<\/a> of camera owners makes it\u00a0really annoying<\/a> to gather and comb through footage. Not so anymore.<\/p>\n

The company currently boasts partnerships with over 5,000 law enforcement agencies and 1,000 private businesses. On its website, Flock talks up a variety of applications, from well-to-do HOAs<\/a> to sleepy one-light towns<\/a> to million dollar companies struggling with organized crime<\/a>, it seems there’s no social ill that can’t be solved with a Flock contract \u2014\u00a0at least on the surface.<\/p>\n

While centralized surveillance schemes have had a positive effect<\/a> on crime rates in China \u2014 efforts which coincided with arguably the largest poverty alleviation effort<\/a> in history \u2014 critics maintain that, in the US at least, mass surveillance and the moral panic it encompasses mostly serves to target minority and immigrant<\/a> communities.<\/p>\n

Those groups, it should be noted, already make up the bulk of the American prison population<\/a>, thanks in no small part to budding police technologies<\/a> like Flock.<\/p>\n

That said, Langley isn’t worried about a few bleeding heart critics.<\/p>\n

“The consequence of building a product that actually changes people\u2019s lives is that there will be a lot of people we piss off along the way,” the CEO told\u00a0Forbes<\/em>, “because what we\u2019re doing actually matters.”<\/p>\n

More on surveillance: <\/strong>Alarming New System Can Identify People Through Walls Using Wi-Fi Signal<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

The post AI Startup Says It Will End Crime by Blanketing the Entire United States in Ever-Watching Spy Cameras<\/a> appeared first on Futurism<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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