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Chief John W. Mina

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first: 2026-05-18
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“Back to Rowe's point is really jump in. I mean, jump in, really engage, connect. You're going to find there's a lot of law enforcement leaders that are looking to figure out the best ways of implementation and trying to get ahead of the curb with technology. We know that it's going to be something that's going to really dominate this profession over the next 10 years is that we're going to see such a shift and change that most of the cops out in the field are going to have to change the way their skill set is shaped because it's going to be a little bit more investigative. It's going to be a little bit more nuanced. You're going to have a different framework of being able to work with in terms of your mindset because it's not going to look the same anymore 10 years from now. It may not be about kicking indoors and other things. It's going to be looking at the technical aspects of this video you just received and looking at AI and certain things that are going to come up from a fraud standpoint as well. And so it's going to be very nuanced.”
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“The cops too. Just like Dr. Carp said previously, it is hard if you don't know what they've been through, what it feels like to be on the beat, spend time, do some ride-alongs, really get an understanding of it. Be a reserve cop if you want to, really get into it. And that'll really help you not only speak the language, but know what to build for them. Colonel Glover, any final words that you want to share for the people that want to work with law enforcement, work with public safety officials? What's the best way to partner and work with you?”
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“I already know great founders that are working in public safety. It's funny, the colonel was talking about tracking the performance of the members of his department in burnout. There's a founder here, Ben Curney, in the audience said as the CEO of Sharp Performance that does exactly that. Introduce you after this. You haven't met him already. We're already talking. All right, good, good. But there's plenty of great founders out there that are tackling public safety. My advice for them is, look, it comes off as very intimidating. I'm sure the colonel's heard this saying, but there's two things cops hate for things to change and for things to say the same. And so it feels like a very narrow thread that you have to hit. But the reality is that if you can picture something that feels like an inevitability in the same way that we talk about drones, AI, some of these things, recognize that change will come no matter what. It'll come because it's the best thing for them. It's the best thing for the communities. It's the best thing for the country. And just take it upon yourself to be the person that brings the change. Don't be intimidated by it just because they're cops. And then if you do it, I would say spend a lot of time.”
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“Everywhere, being able to condense that down and distill it to where we can have good information sharing that's unclassified to just be able to share one another on trends and being able to backstop that with some of the technology and AI helps us with being able to actually stop a lot of the trends before they start. Absolutely. We saw very sadly in Austin that global events have local repercussions. So I think we've seen in New York City that their counterterrorism work at the NYPD has been very successful and excited to hear that you're bringing that kind of a program into Arizona. Rahul, you started out as a policeman, as a paramedic. Now that you've seen all this technology, some of which you've brought to bear in public safety.”
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“Talk about the Department of Public Safety, how you're working to really make sure that officers have the best information available. Yeah, so one of the things that we're leaning into as well is that we have the Arizona Counterterrorism Incentive, the Arctic. So with the fusion centers around the US are collaborating and working together in tandem to make sure that they're sharing information, you have the TRX program, which a lot of us are doing for FIFA right now because that's the big event that's coming up, as well as the Olympics. But one of the things in Arizona that I'm doing is I'm leaning heavily into making sure that we're having sort of an international presence as well. So we have a lot of partnerships with different groups, especially, you know, of course we are a border state. So we have the state of Sonora, Mexico that's right next to us. We're looking at being able to have the ability of having intelligence officers from Mexico, from the UAE, from Liberia, from different parts of the world, because the world is getting a lot smaller. We all know that crime is happening.”
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“At first, people were very against Some of the officer unions were against And they realize, wait a minute. You see all the dumb things that the criminals do. So that's pretty good. It protects our officers. But also provides you game tape, gives you footage. It could be coaching, mental health services. Make sure that somebody who needs a break gets a break and really incredible technology. I remember The same discussion happened with Taser. So we see this over and over again with technology That we sort of have to go through a hype cycle of reaction, but it's great to see those things being deployed. Do you want to talk a little bit real quickly about The intelligence gathering apparatus. I think that you've mentioned it a couple times that we shifted law enforcement to really making sure that we have all the information we need”
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“Being able to have that filling up. I have a little bit of a layer of protection because with this, it's going to flag for the burnout as well. And that was one of the things that the associations and speaking with them about this was that from the advent of our body worn camera and being able to take that technology, run those analytics behind it, be able to check for those that had burnout, where if we need to pull them from the field, if we need to do something a little bit different, we started instituting well checks and sabbaticals for those that are at the 15 and 25 year mark to be able to help optimize their performance. So that way when they go out in the field, they feel good about what they're doing and they have job satisfaction. Absolutely. It's been amazing to see the public sentiment shift over things like”
2026-05-18 · a16z Podcast · The Plan to Make American Crime Obsolete · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Helping the officers. Helping the general public, or in most cases both. Yeah, so there's a couple of different things that we're doing, sort of like an ecosystem or platform within the agency that we've done. One piece of it is being able to make sure that we're giving the officers what they need to do to be successful, but it's also about their own mental health and well-being. So we utilize Vitania, heal the heroes. It's basically brain scan. So we start off the day and everything to figure out exactly, you know, how are you doing temperature check? Then they go out, they can do their shift behind the body worn camera. We have analytics that's Trulio that's running behind the body worn camera just to see for the behavior and interaction. Part of that was looking at you can do a scorecard for how the trooper is interacting with the public, but it also gets a little bit of information on how the public is interacting with that trooper to see if they're combated or not. And then it can flag the situation as well for the supervisor. Outside of that, you have what essentially is it helps with them.”
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“To see that it isn't inevitable. We can't do that with a helicopter today unless you just kept five helicopters up 24-7 and that's just not sustainable. This is the only way to actually achieve that level of safety. I joked earlier.”
2026-05-18 · a16z Podcast · The Plan to Make American Crime Obsolete · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, look, drones are flying robots. And as we see AI robotics sweep every industry, all these industries are looking for ways to either automate things, make things more efficient, make things more effective. Drones are a similar piece of that. And in public safety, the short answer is we are going to see more drones. We're going to see also potentially more hostile drones that we have to be prepared for. You're going to see more police and fire department drones responding to fire calls across the country. And flock safety, it's not just about drones. For us, we have multitudes of sensors in the communities. We have license play reading cameras. We have gunshot detection capabilities. All of this is coming together. All this data where you're able to determine, oh, that's an amber alert vehicle and the drone takes off and chases the amber alert vehicle. Are you here at gunshot go off and the drone finds a shooter getting into a car and driving off and then pursuing the vehicle even on the highways with DPS? That's something that it's kind of almost”
2026-05-18 · a16z Podcast · The Plan to Make American Crime Obsolete · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I'm on the board of flock safety. There's other companies like Scotia that make drones. I'm the recipient of constant notifications from you guys. Hey, we found a kidnap child. We use the technology in this way. We were able to de-escalate a situation. I remember one story where someone called 911 and said, hey, there's a guy in the alleyway with a shotgun. Well, you can imagine how a police officer would respond to that call, but it turned out the drone provided a situational awareness and said, wait, there's just a janitor with a broom. That's not a guy with a shotgun. And it totally de-escalates the situation. So it was really incredible. Anything else we should know, Rahul, about where are we in the sort of nationwide and the state of drone deployment? Are people just going to start seeing drones flying around? Is that where we are?”
2026-05-18 · a16z Podcast · The Plan to Make American Crime Obsolete · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“American law enforcement is being asked to do more with less. Departments are short-staffed. Officers are burning out, and the complexity of the job keeps growing, but the technology available to public safety has never been more powerful. Drones that respond to 911 calls before a patrol car leave the station. License plate readers that flag an amber alert vehicle in real time, body-worn camera analytics that detect burnout before an officer hits a breaking point. These aren't prototypes, they're deployed today in departments across the country. The harder question is how you actually get this technology into the field. Law enforcement moves slowly by design. Trust has built over years, not product cycles. And the gap between what's technically possible and what departments will adopt is wide. For the 21st century.”
2026-05-18 · a16z Podcast · The Plan to Make American Crime Obsolete · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“You hear a gunshot go off, and the drone finds a shooter getting into a car and driving off, and then pursuing the vehicle, it's kind of almost hard to see that it isn't inevitable. We can't do that with a helicopter today unless you just kept five helicopters up 24-7, and that's just not sustainable.”
2026-05-18 · a16z Podcast · The Plan to Make American Crime Obsolete · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Two things cops hate for things to change and for things to say the same. Most of the cops in the field are going to have to change the way their skill set is shaped because it's going to be a little bit more investigative. It's going to be a little bit more nuanced. It's not going to look the same anymore.”
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