[ExI] AI Startup Flock Thinks It Can Eliminate All Crime In America

[Adrian Tymes]

What about those crimes committed by the government and/or powerful,
where even being clearly recorded on video does not result in the law
being enforced?  "Yeah, so our people beat that person up for being
(black/brown/female/non-Christian/a member of some opposition
political party).  So what?"

On Thu, Sep 11, 2025 at 7:51 AM BillK via extropy-chat
<extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>
> AI Startup Flock Thinks It Can Eliminate All Crime In America
> ByThomas Brewster, Forbes Staff.
> Sep 03, 2025, Updated Sep 5, 2025
>
> <https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2025/09/03/ai-startup-flock-thinks-it-can-eliminate-all-crime-in-america/>
> Quotes:
> With more than 80,000 AI-powered cameras across the U.S., Flock Safety has become one of cops’ go-to surveillance tools and a $7.5 billion business. Now CEO Garrett Langley has both police tech giant Axon and Chinese drone maker DJI in his sights on the way to his noble (if Sisyphean) goal: Preventing all crime in the U.S.
> Langley estimates its cameras help solve 1 million crimes a year. Soon they’ll help solve even more. In August, Flock’s cameras will take to the skies mounted on its own “made in Amer­ica” drones.
> Langley offers a prediction: In less than 10 years, Flock’s cameras, airborne and fixed, will eradicate almost all crime in the U.S.
>
> Not everyone shares law enforcement’s enthusiasm for Flock’s rapid expansion. Privacy advocates say the company is building an unprecedented mass-surveillance dystopia.
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>
> Wow!  I thought the UK was the worst for camera surveillance everywhere, but it seems the USA intends to be the leader!
> China will be jealous.
> BillK
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