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Flock Safety

Flock Safety

software

1 creator use or recommend it

1 use 8 mention 1 critical
Last discussed Oct 9, 2026

An AI-powered crime prevention platform that uses cameras and license plate recognition to help solve crimes.

What creators say

a16z
uses
Used for: Finding kidnapped children, de-escalating situations, license plate reading, gunshot detection Praised: Effective for child recovery, situation de-escalation, multi-sensor integration

"I'm on the board of Flock Safety. I'm the recipient of constant notifications from you guys, 'Hey, we found a kidnapped child. We used the technology in this way. We were able to de-escalate a situation.'"

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Jack Raines
mentioned

"Evidence from researchers in South Carolina appears to show that Flock Safety cameras were associated with an 11% decrease in car thefts in the first year. That is a good thing. There is also quite a lot of bad things to say about Flock Safety."

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John Coogan
mentioned

"Over the last year, there has been a huge rise of license plate reader cameras. Flock Safety has been at the front of the charge there."

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"Flock Safety is weighing whether to sell itself. Very interesting. Obviously insane public backlash for that company. Very interesting technology b..."

"Flock Safety is an American startup that sells essentially CCTV cameras to police forces that then go into a database, get image recognized, and so..."

Peter Diamandis
mentioned
Used for: Identifying vehicles associated with crimes and missing persons

"Flock Safety — its core product is a network of AI-powered license plate reading cameras used by police departments, neighborhoods, schools, and businesses. The company says its systems are used by more than 6,000 communities across 49 states, gen..."

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TBPN
mentioned
Used for: Crime prevention and vehicle theft deterrence Praised: Immediate drone response, high-altitude tracking, effective crime deterrent vs: Criminals say you can't do crime in San Francisco anymore because of this tec...

"If you steal a car, a drone will start following you immediately. And it will just trail you from thousands of feet up. You won't even necessarily know that it's following you."

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"What Palantir and Flock Safety are doing like maybe we should be thinking about how to regulate that"

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Geoffrey Woo
mentioned

"Rolled a lot of that stock into Flock Safety which is crushing. Rahul's now the chief strategy officer there."

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Adam Bry
mentioned
Used for: Drone as first responder services vs: Uses DJI drones vs Skydio's own technology

"Flock Safety is effectively a DJI reseller. Like all of their drone as first responders work is done with DJI drones today."

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David George
mentioned

"Each year Flock is solving 700,000 crimes... where there's flock they're clearing almost 10% more crimes"

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Jack Raines
critical

"I've heard of stories where people will monitor the Flock cameras and then they'll see a little thing happen and they think it's a crime and they'll go react and it wasn't a crime... With Flock, again, it's not totally clear where the data is goin..."

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Garrett Langley
creator
Used for: License plate reading cameras and drones deployed in communities and by law enforcement to solve crimes, find missing persons, and improve public safety Praised: Solved over a million crimes, found over 10,000 missing people, detects vehic... vs: Compared to competitors who do facial recognition, capture full video, and lo...

"I started the company nine years ago with a pretty simple mission, which is to live in a safer neighborhood. North of a million crimes solved using Flock. North of 10,000 people found who were missing."

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