# Garrett Langley

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Real Alpha has cut 4 moments of Garrett Langley (Founder & CEO, Flock Safety) talking, from 2 interviews on a16z Podcast and TBPN, the latest published Dec 17, 2025.

- Role: Founder & CEO, Flock Safety
- About: Founded Flock, whose cameras, drones and software help thousands of communities detect crime and investigate cases.
- Company: [Flock Safety](https://realalpha.app/companies/flock-safety/)
- On X: https://x.com/glangley

## What Garrett Langley said

- [Why crime clearance rates have fallen](https://realalpha.app/s/why-crime-clearance-rates-have-fallen/)
  a16z Podcast · Dec 17, 2025 · 3 min
  > “outside of Vegas, the international average is around 47% clearance rate. So you have a coin flip.” — Garrett Langley · [22:27](https://realalpha.app/v/tR6g3zrk7eM/?t=1347)
- [Drones can make a dangerous arrest more controlled](https://realalpha.app/s/drones-can-make-a-dangerous-arrest-more-controlled/)
  a16z Podcast · Dec 17, 2025 · 3 min
  > “Sitting at a comfortable desk like we are here, a real-time crime center operator clicks a button that says launch drone” — Garrett Langley · [55:21](https://realalpha.app/v/tR6g3zrk7eM/?t=3321)
- [Police drones can extend coverage and verify calls faster](https://realalpha.app/s/police-drones-can-extend-coverage-and-verify-calls-faster/)
  TBPN · Sep 26, 2025 · 9 min
  > “we just treat drones like a camera that can fly. So we're pretty good at building cameras” — Garrett Langley · [2:10:47](https://realalpha.app/v/QL_GSxeXG5I/?t=7847)
- [Flock's product expansion is outpacing customer adoption](https://realalpha.app/s/flocks-product-expansion-is-outpacing-customer-adoption/)
  TBPN · Sep 26, 2025 · 6 min
  > “we took the company from one SKU to eight SKUs in the last twelve months” — Garrett Langley · [2:21:09](https://realalpha.app/v/QL_GSxeXG5I/?t=8469)

## Also from these interviews

- [Radiology is a poor proxy for near-term AI job losses](https://realalpha.app/s/radiology-is-a-poor-proxy-for-near-term-ai-job-losses/)
  TBPN · Sep 26, 2025 · 5 min
  > “jobs that look like repetition of one rote task, each task being relatively independent, closed, not requiring too much context” — John Coogan · [52:01](https://realalpha.app/v/QL_GSxeXG5I/?t=3121)

## The 2 episodes

- [“How We Can Eliminate Crime” | Ben Horowitz and Garrett Langley](https://realalpha.app/v/tR6g3zrk7eM/) · a16z Podcast · Dec 17, 2025
- [Thursday, September 25th](https://realalpha.app/v/QL_GSxeXG5I/) · TBPN · Sep 26, 2025