00:00in thousands of cities work to eliminate crime, including hundreds of cities right here in
00:05Florida. Joining me now to talk about how this works. Holly Bielen with Flock Safety. Good
00:10morning. Thank you for joining us. Hey Lauren, how are you? I'm good. So Holly, tell me a little
00:14bit about Flock Safety. It's relatively new. It is. Yeah, the company was founded just five
00:20years ago. So what we are is we're the first public safety operating system that helps cities.
00:25So entire communities from private citizens to law enforcement officers actually help solve
00:30and reduce crime. And I mean, Jacksonville, we have a lot of issues with crime. We see
00:36it every single day, you know, over the past five years. Tell me a little bit about the results
00:40you guys have seen. Yeah. So Lauren, it's definitely not just Jacksonville. Unfortunately, across
00:45the country, we're seeing difficulty for law enforcement agencies to actually recruit police
00:51officers. And unfortunately, as part of that, we're seeing violent crime go up in cities across
00:56the country. So what we're doing is we're actually helping thousands of cities in over 40 states
01:01now and thousands of law enforcement agencies solve hundreds of crime every single day and also
01:07reduce crime. So we're seeing communities report to us that the system helps reduce crime by
01:12over 70% in certain communities. So how does it work? That's the that's the big question
01:17right there. Yeah, good question. So we pair devices. So hardware like automated license plate
01:23reader cameras, which actually capture the license plates on vehicles and then things like sound,
01:29audio crime detection and machine learning software to actually solve crime in both a proactive
01:35and an investigative fashion. And I can help break that down for you if you'd like. Yeah,
01:40explain that a little bit. So for instance, would this work in an amber alert situation?
01:45Yes, you got it. That's a perfect situation. So what happens is we tie into national and state
01:51crime databases. So people think of the National Crime Information Center, which is maintained by the
01:56FBI, or the amber alert system, which is maintained by the National Center for Missing and Exploited
02:01Children. And when a vehicle that's associated with someone that has stolen a car or a wanted felon
02:09or a vehicle associated with an endangered person like a missing child passes the camera, local law
02:15enforcement in that area actually get a real time alert. And that's critical because we know in
02:20situations, again, like a stolen vehicle that's crossing through different cities or an amber alert,
02:25it's literally seconds that make the difference between a law enforcement officer being able to apprehend
02:30in that vehicle versus them. Listen, it all sounds great. But as the consumer, consumer reporter here,
02:37I have to ask the question, you know, what about me, my private data? I don't want that going out
02:42across the world. Totally understandable question. And stock was actually founded with the conviction
02:47that we can help improve public safety. So help reduce crime while also protecting that really
02:52important personal data and privacy. That's kind of a bedrock of our country. So we have a number of features
02:59in
02:59place that help us do that. First of all, we don't actually own the data. So as the vendor for
03:05the
03:05system, we don't own the data. 100% of the data is owned by the customers. So the neighborhoods or
03:11the
03:11business owner or the law enforcement agency that's actually looking at this data help solve crime.
03:17Another thing that we do is we have put in an automatic data deletion policy. So every 30 days on
03:23a
03:24rolling basis, all of the data collected is actually hard deleted from our systems.
03:28Now, what that means is that the vast majority of footage that is not involved in investigating a
03:34crime is actually deleted every 30 days and can never be accessed again.
03:39That's a little makes you a little calmer to hear about that all that.
03:43All right, Holly with Fox Safety. Thank you so much for joining us this morning.
03:47Thanks, Lauren. Appreciate it.
