Data doesn't support Flock's claim of solving 1 million crimes

Faced with recent questions about the privacy costs of its technology , the surveillance camera startup Flock Safety and its CEO have deployed a tidy statistic to tout its benefits.
"Last year we helped clear just over a million crimes in America," Flock CEO Garrett Langley said in a March 2026 podcast interview.
"Over a million cases were solved last year with this technology," Langley told the auto industry publication The Drive , "and the level of abuse is incredibly low relative to that."
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