Atlanta solved 35 Homicides with Flock. A good detective does 5 to 8 in a year. The Math Is Obvious.

Flock Safety makes cities in which it operates significantly safer from violent crime. The numbers are plainly obvious.

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Flock Safety makes cities in which it operates significantly safer from violent crime. The numbers are plainly obvious. https://t.co/qOFuZC7hti https://t.co/yKxLosBCsB [Quoting @glangley]: Just spoke to an Atlanta PD detective who solved 35 homicides last year using Flock. Wouldn't have believed this was possible when we started.

Garry Tan @garrytan February 06, 2026

That’s not a typo. One Atlanta PD detective solved 35 homicides last year using Flock. For context, a detective who solves 5 homicides in a year is considered very high performing by historical standards.

7x the Best Detective in America

The math here is staggering. According to Garrett Langley, a detective who clears 5 homicides a year is already elite. The best units in the country—San Jose, Tulsa—achieve near-perfect solve rates by keeping caseloads manageable at 4-6 cases per detective. Once you push past 6-8 cases per year, clearance rates start dropping significantly.

This Atlanta detective is operating at 7x the performance of elite peers. Let that sink in.

Meanwhile, the FBI reports the national homicide clearance rate is only 58%. Nearly half of all murders in America go unsolved. Half. Families never get justice. Killers walk free.

That’s not acceptable when technology exists that can change it.

This Is Personal

My wife was hit in a hit-and-run last month. She was injured and only recently recovered from her injuries. Flock cameras found the drunk driver who hit her. Without Flock, that driver would never be found, and they might have killed someone next.

This isn’t abstract policy for me. Flock is currently solving 10% of reported crime in the US. They helped return over 450 missing children in 2025. They were instrumental in finding the suspect in the Brown and MIT murders.

The privacy absolutists will tell you that license plate cameras are “Orwellian.” But here’s what I know: unsolved crime means more innocent people get hurt and maimed and killed. Flock has audit trails. There’s accountability. The people who benefit from keeping murders unsolved aren’t victims—they’re criminals.

Every unsolved homicide is a family without justice. Every hit-and-run driver who escapes is a future victim waiting to happen. The technology exists. The results are obvious. 35 homicides solved by one detective. The only question is whether your city has the courage to use it.