Garrett Langley

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TED Talks Daily · Can a camera on every corner make us safer? | Garrett Langley · 16 Jul 2026 podcast

So I kept pushing, kept pushing, and eventually I found a major in the Atlanta Police Department who told me, Mr. Langley, it's not apathy, it's not effort, it's evidence.

If all we had was a license plate, we could catch these people.

So I did what engineers did.

I built a license plate reading camera.

It sounds simple, but I called two of my best friends from Georgia Tech, and we built this camera.

He said, you have to have a license plate.

So we did that, put it up in my neighborhood, and about two months later, we solved our first crime.

And that was the beginning of Flock.

And now, as you've heard, the company has grown quite a bit since then.

We do more than cameras, we build cameras now, we build drones, we build audio detection devices, we build software that connects it all together.

And the concept is actually still this simple nine years later.

Car drives by, we do what we call a vehicle signature, we look for the make, the model, the color, anything a detective would notice.

And then you catch the bad guy.

And that's what I thought we were doing, right?

And then I was speaking to a police chief not too far from here in Washington, and he said, no, no, Mr. Langley, this is more than about fighting crime.

This is as transformational as DNA.

And candidly, I was confused.

It's a camera.

What's the rub?

And he said, well, look, let me explain to you how policing used to work.

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