00:00:00.000Hey everybody, this is a special unexpected live stream. I want to talk about one topic, and one topic only today. It's the topic about defunding the police, which of course is a provocative thought. Some people want fewer police presence, or less of it. Some people want more of it.
00:00:24.780So the country is being torn apart, and I would like to suggest that this is not a question of left or right, even though we've made it that way. The question of defunding the police should be a technology and systems question. In other words, we should be thinking of it in terms of a puzzle to solve, and not a left problem or a right problem.
00:00:46.180And the puzzle is this. How do you get more bang for your buck? A very basic corporate business decision. How do you take this thing we've been doing, policing, how do you get as much benefit as you can at the lowest cost?
00:01:02.180And I would say that just thinking of it that way would make a big difference. And so I would like to say we should think of it more as reimagining the police, not defunding them. Defunding is sort of a, those are fighting words, and we don't need that.
00:01:20.600But I would suggest that we already have in place everything we need, or very close to it, to be able to do something that really radically reimagines the police.
00:01:32.380So what I'm going to tell you are some things that already exist. So if you say to me, Scott, Scott, Scott, we will never be able to develop these things, you're already behind the times.
00:01:43.980Everything I talk about already exists. We just have to think about it in this way, and it's going to be able to move us forward.
00:01:52.100And it looks like this. So you have a current police force with a current budget and a current way of doing things.
00:01:58.300But at the same time, there's a little satellite around them of private companies who are doing functions that have, in some cases, wide application, but they're also really, really good for police.
00:02:11.760And I'll talk about a few of these in a moment.
00:02:13.980If you'd use this model, where you let private companies develop new technologies that would make policing way more effective, cost effective, so it gets the job done at a much lower cost, would you like to see these kinds of things experimented with inside the police force, in other words, inside a government-like entity,
00:02:38.720or would you like to see private entity doing the development and taking the risk?
00:02:45.480The last thing you want is a government entity or something like the police force doing technology innovation.
00:02:54.500You don't want it there. You want it where it is, in the private industry.
00:02:57.800Now, there are a few developments that really make the idea of changing or reimagining how police work is done very practical.
00:03:07.580So when the left says, hey, let's defund the police and make money available for social services, I say, that is completely doable.
00:03:17.060It is completely doable without losing a thing in policing, and because of this new technology that I'll talk about in a moment, you can actually get far better police results.
00:03:30.740And I'm talking about multiples of better.
00:03:32.600I'm not talking about a 10% improvement.
00:03:35.620I'm talking about a five times improvement sort of situation.