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		advisedwang on May 1, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Flock Safety is the biggest player in a city-by-ci... I think it's foolish to take a company's marketing claims at face value. Do not trust them to be accurately representing what is "solved". Do not trust them as to what "solved in part due to Flock" means. Frankly I suspect all this means is they served up a location hit to X requests, and they have a crime stat somehwere that says Y crimes have occurred. X/Y = 10%. Woo, what heros.

ApolloFortyNine on May 1, 2024 [–]

Could be, I'm skeptical as well, but as I said they already added the caveat of 'solved' in their claim.

Anyways here's their own post about how they came to that conclusion for anyone who cares to read. https://www.flocksafety.com/resources/how-many-crimes-do-aut....

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