Matthew Webster

CMO @Flock_Safety. Formerly @Activision (Call of Duty), @Twitch and @Spotify. Building category-defining brands.

[Matthew Webster @Matt_Webster00]

One of the most comprehensive and factual articles on @Flock_Safety yet.

[a16z @a16z]

https://t.co/ZaKnu7RVIz

[Garrett Langley @glangley]

“Why is there a Flock camera near a playground?"

This is why.

Police in Terre Haute received a report of sexual battery involving a child. They identified a suspect: James Skipper. They used @Flock_Safety to find his location, at a playground in Deming Park.

He's now in custody at Vigo County Jail. Without that camera, how long would that search have taken?

It stopped a suspect who allegedly conspired to hurt a child and could have harmed more if he wasn’t found as quickly as he was with this technology.

[Rahul Sidhu @rahul]

We built the fastest 911 response quadcopter drone on the market.

Drones that respond to 911 calls are only valuable if they get there fast enough. If the suspect gets away, it’s pointless.

Also, say goodbye to dangerous police pursuits 👋 https://t.co/T49Xu3Tc2y

[Matthew Webster @Matt_Webster00]

What the future of emergency response looks like.

[Matthew Webster @Matt_Webster00]

This

[Nikita Bier @nikitabier]

@SlowNewsDayShow This whole meme about Flock being bad was likely started by foreign adversaries.

It isn’t the first time narratives to destroy American municipal infrastructure were boosted.

Crazy that something as benign as license plate readers on public roads has turned into the boogie man

[Rahul Sidhu @rahul]

People asked me recently if Flock tracks cell phones, airpods, wearables, etc. The answer is NO.

We chose years ago to avoid this technology. The balance between privacy and safety is something we consider every day, and we found that technology to be on the wrong side of it.

[Matthew Webster @Matt_Webster00]

This is why those that work with the technology fight to keep Flock cameras, despite the criticism and misinformation out there.

Every call for takedowns has to be reconciled against the reality - 1000s of missing people not being found, many of them children.

[Flock @Flock_Safety]

Yesterday in top stories: @NorthOlmstedPD recovered a vehicle stolen in an armed robbery and found an 8-year-old child inside.

A Flock license plate reader alert placed the car at a parking lot on Great Northern Boulevard. Officers set up surveillance, moved in as suspects entered the vehicle, and stopped the driver when he tried to run. Two males were taken into custody.

The child inside was moved to safety without further incident. https://t.co/qjduBXbfyJ

[Flock @Flock_Safety]

Case clearance rates have been declining nationally for decades. In jurisdictions where Flock was deployed, 1 in 5 cleared cases involved Flock technology.

That's the finding from the 2025 Impact Census, and it's a meaningful signal about what changes when agencies have better leads to work from.

Read more to see what the data shows. https://t.co/jf32rQZCgl

[Boston Herald @bostonherald]

Opinion | When a child disappears, every second matters. Parents do not think about politics or technology in those moments. They think about getting their child home alive. https://t.co/XYoBS9BQYP

[Rahul Sidhu @rahul]

This guy got caught damaging Flock cameras (a felony). The cops chased him and caught him. Now he faces years in prison.

People are being manipulated into throwing away their lives to destroy police equipment because of targeted misinformation campaigns.

[Garrett Langley @glangley]

"As police chief, I'm telling you, we need that tool." -@SanDiegoPD Chief Scott Wahl says Flock is a game changer.

It has helped in 800+ cases.

1/3rd of San Diego’s homicide investigations were supported by @Flock_Safety last year.

If we can help deliver that for San Diego, it means even the most challenged communities in the country, struggling with crime, can make drastic improvements in safety too.

Every community deserves that.

[Matthew Webster @Matt_Webster00]

RIDE IN TO THE DANGER ZONE

@Flock_Safety Alpha is ripping.

[Rahul Sidhu @rahul]

A 911 response drone is only useful if it gets on scene fast enough. We made sure our Alpha drones are the fastest DFR quads out there.

Sometimes, we test it the old-fashioned way 😎

[Rahul Sidhu @rahul]

One of the most prolific criminals in all of San Francisco tells @adam22 that “crime in San Francisco is over with” because of Flock cameras + drones. He complains that he can’t even do drivebys anymore.

It’s simple: when the risk of getting caught is too high, crime plummets.

[Matthew Webster @Matt_Webster00]

This is one of the finest ads I’ve seen in a long time… and it’s not even from a brand.

Claude marketing is peak.

[Roberto Nickson @rpnickson]

I posted this paid partnership last night on IG and this morning it’s at 1M views and 100K+ likes:

Life with Claude

[Garrett Langley @glangley]

A million criminal investigations supported last year.

Hitting that milestone feels surreal. I’m so proud of what this team has built over the past nine years.

What I keep coming back to is who made it possible.

First responders paired their unwavering dedication and expertise with our tools because they care about their communities and bringing justice to every victim their work serves.

At @Flock_Safety, we don't take that partnership for granted. Not for a single case.

Behind the milestone are families who got answers, communities that got safer and officers who put their own lives on the line to serve others.

To us, this is a milestone, not a finish line. We are on a mission to dramatically reduce crime in America.

[Garrett Langley @glangley]

The misquote that keeps giving.

Every day, someone drops this line in my comments. It's the reflex for anyone who doesn't like license plate readers.

The irony: read in context, the quote argues for exactly what we do.

Franklin was pro-public safety.

Pennsylvania, 1755. The French and Indian War. Frontier families were being killed in their homes and the legislature needed money to defend them. The richest family in the colony, the Penns, owned most of the land, lived in England and paid nothing in tax. They blocked the funding to protect their own wealth.

Franklin was furious.

The "liberty" he was defending was the public's right to fund its own protection. The "temporary safety" he rejected was the wealthy buying their way out of paying for it.

Benjamin Wittes, editor of Lawfare, put it plainly on NPR back in 2015: far from a pro-privacy line, it's a pro-taxation, pro-defense spending line.

So we agree. Everyone deserves to feel safe.

[Matthew Webster @Matt_Webster00]

Flock supported 1M investigations last year.

[Garrett Langley @glangley]

A million criminal investigations supported last year.

Hitting that milestone feels surreal. I’m so proud of what this team has built over the past nine years.

What I keep coming back to is who made it possible.

First responders paired their unwavering dedication and expertise with our tools because they care about their communities and bringing justice to every victim their work serves.

At @Flock_Safety, we don't take that partnership for granted. Not for a single case.

Behind the milestone are families who got answers, communities that got safer and officers who put their own lives on the line to serve others.

To us, this is a milestone, not a finish line. We are on a mission to dramatically reduce crime in America.

[Garry's List @garryslist]

Oakland installed Flock cameras to find stolen cars.

The cameras found them: 210,000 stolen-car and stolen-plate alerts in 6 months.

The problem? OPD couldn’t keep up.

[Rahul Sidhu @rahul]

We built the most powerful emergency response drone camera of all time.

It has 800x zoom, 1080p thermal resolution, and takes in 8x as much light at night as the competitors.

That means the Alpha can see the scene of a 911 call half a mile away.

[Flock @Flock_Safety]

The technology exists to significantly impact community safety. It's now a matter of how we choose to implement it. This segment from the @theallinpod explores the effectiveness of Flock and the considered leadership behind its privacy-first approach.

[Matthew Webster @Matt_Webster00]

The day DFR changed forever…

[Rahul Sidhu @rahul]

Today, after years of building, the most powerful American-made drone-as-first-responder system hit the field for the first time.

Flock Alpha is officially live with early access customers.

Launching from the most advanced, battery-swapping dock on the market, Alpha flys straight to 911 calls, miles away. It’s faster, stays up longer, and sees farther (day or night) than any other drone-as-first-responder platform.