How Tech Can Fix America’s Crime Crisis — a16z Podcast (3-min Digest)
Update: 2025-12-17
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A pragmatic blueprint for reducing crime: people, products, and policy. This 3-minute summary of the 58-minute a16z Podcast episode with host Ben Horowitz and guest Garrett Langley (Flock Safety) distills how recruitment, precision technology, and targeted prosecution can change incentives and make communities safer. Learn how AI-enabled cameras, license-plate readers, drones, and orchestration layers turn data into actionable intelligence, why workforce reforms and student-debt incentives could rebuild policing, and how privacy, community values, and rehabilitation must be balanced. Key takeaways: clear leads beat brute force, certainty of capture deters crime, public-private partnerships amplify limited budgets, and focused rehab reduces recidivism. Topics: artificial intelligence, machine learning, technology and innovation, society and culture, startups. Listen now to get the key ideas in minutes.
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