congrats guys :)

congrats guys!

IanCal, sorry you feel this way. Our goal is simply to help police do their job. Today, only 13% of crime is solved due to lack of evidence. We are trying to help drive that number to 100% and eliminate crime in our neighborhoods.

What type of crime is your main target? Do you store video in addition to plate numbers? How accurate are your speed estimates at oblique angles?

I think you are getting some pushback because a lot of neighborhood watch groups have a reputation for looking out for "wrong looking people." The Trayvon Martin case surely didn't help, either.

Also, crime in the US is an all time low, but perception of crime is at an all time high. This is good for your product, but not for our society.

Surely you're aware of the tremendous potential for unethical uses. Do you have any concerns along those lines? Any steps to take to prevent it?

drop us an email sales [at] flocksafety.com

this is garrett (co-founder of Flock)

llsf, great points. we let the neighborhood decide who has access and how access is granted.

some neighborhoods give every resident unlimited access while others require a police report before logging in.

> we let the neighborhood decide who has access and how access is granted.

“Neighborhoods” generally aren't legal entities that you can deal with this way. When you say “neighborhood” here, are you talking about an homeowners association (which is a very different thing than a “neighborhood”) or...what, exactly?

Either Homeowners association or a Civic association. Both are legal entities.

the neighborhood owns the data. we have zero plans to sell the data.

our goal is to provide police with the evidence they need to solve crime.

today only 13% of non-violent crime is solved. we think it should be 100%.

> the neighborhood owns the data.

You keep using the word “neighborhood” as if it referred to a legal entity with a defined authority structure that can make decisions and own property. This is generally not the case, so it is apparent that this is being used as a sloppy, PR-friendly term for something else, like maybe an HOA. What specifically do you mean when you say “neighborhood”?

Define "the neighborhood". I personally don't know more than three or four neighbors in my apartment complex. Who specifically is it then? I tend to believe you actually meant to type 'police precinct'.

I applaud your sense of civic duty, but having a complete panopticon of all outside activities for an unobtainable goal of 100% seems absurd.

Neighborhood = Homeowners association or civic association.

Alexro, there are clear and large signs about the cameras at the entrance to our neighborhoods.

Our neighborhoods are not large public roads, they are typically 100-400 home communities. You would never have to enter the community.

each neighborhood owns their data and they would have to opt-in to any type of data sharing between neighborhoods.

our goal isn't to build a big-brother system. we believe that if you are on a public road there isn't a perceived expectation of privacy.

Generally speaking, only gated communities are on private streets. Otherwise, every street is public and managed by the local city/county.