Post #47631

2025-12-10 03:09 UTC

Either they conned the government org in charge of purchasing it, or that org just didn’t care enough to look deeper. They got a professional-looking demo that made it look like the tech worked, and signed the contract without a second thought.

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@AcidiclyBasicGlitch@sh.itjust.works 2025-12-10 03:26

The history of the organization seems very odd en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flock_Safety It began as a side project in which the three co-founders built their first video surveillance cameras by hand around Langley’s dining room table. When a DeKalb County detective told Langley that his camera product had helped with solving a home break-in, Langley called the two other co-founders and told them to quit their jobs. What?? How did a detective use it to solve a crime? Who was he? And based off of this one dude you all 3 just quit your jobs??? What?? Then we just jump ahead to 2022 and these cameras that didn’t even work had raised over $380 million in venture funding? Then by the next year they were being used to sub for actual police due to a shortage of police officers?

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