Flock CEO on Catching Bad Cops: “It’s a Ton. It’s More Than I Ever Would’ve Hoped.”

In this short segment, the All-In Podcast speaks with Flock Safety CEO Garrett Langley about alleged misuse of Flock’s licence-plate recognition and related surveillance tools by police officers. Langley says the company has detected “just under a dozen” abuses over the past eight years and claims it has learned to recognise patterns that suggest improper behaviour. As an illustrative example, he describes an officer repeatedly searching for the same person’s car and location over multiple days, arguing that this looks more like stalking than a legitimate criminal investigation. By contrast, he says an officer looking for a suspect would typically place the number plate on a “hot list” so others in the department would also be notified.

Langley further claims that, amid recent headlines, the company has “caught a lot of bad cops”, adding that the scale has been “more than” he would have hoped. He says Flock is now requiring a particular safety measure as a mandatory feature rather than an optional default setting, framing the change as necessary to identify misuse and remove offending officers. The clip does not provide details on how the mandatory control operates, how it is audited, or how misconduct findings are verified or reported to departments or regulators.

• Garrett Langley says Flock has detected “just under a dozen” abuses in eight years.
• He describes repeated day-to-day searches for the same number plate as a potential stalking pattern.
• Langley says legitimate investigations would typically place a plate on a department-wide “hot list”.
• He claims Flock has recently identified “a lot of bad cops”, calling the volume “a ton”.
• Langley says an anti-abuse feature is now mandatory rather than a default option.