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> These companies build this tech in SF and Seattle, cities with some of the gnarliest public safety problems in the country I live just outside Seattle. I wor
by FireBeyond 7mo ago
> These companies build this tech in SF and Seattle, cities with some of the gnarliest public safety problems in the country
I live just outside Seattle. I worked for Flock.
Flock is a company based in Atlanta GA.
- superfrank 7mo agoAxon, on the other hand, does have a decent sized Seattle presence.
- fblp 7mo agoAxon seems to be the defacto standard for body cameras but I don't know much about them...
- dghlsakjg 6mo agoThey are formerly known as TASER, after their best known product. They already had relationships with almost every department in North America so they became an easy choice for bodycams.
- dghlsakjg 7mo agoAlso worth pointing out that Seattle and SF - despite their portrayal in the media - aren’t particularly violent places. Their violent crime rates are less than half the leading cities. Both Seattle and SF have lower violent crime rates than Salt Lake City. N.b. property crime is different and is a much less reliable metric. Both cities are ranked higher for property crime, but still below the famously dangerous Salt Lake City.