Two numbers from the FBI's new crime report don't fit together. Violent crime fell 9.3% in 2025, the biggest one-year drop since 1936. Murder rate tied for lowest ever recorded. Assaults on officers hit a 10-year high. 13.8 per 100 officers. I won't speculate why. Nobody studying this full time claims to know yet. What I know: the country got safer, and one group paid for a lot of it. I spend a lot of time with officers. The more time I spend with them, the more grateful I am. I got into this business because two friends were shot and killed in 1993. Wrote a book called The End of Killing. In 2022 we set a moonshot to cut gun deaths between police and the public in half by 2033. That number includes officers. Same fight. Better tools before the door. Better data instead of guesswork. We cut violent crime 9.3% in a year. Why would 13.8 be the number we accept? #ProtectLife 👇 FBI 2025 Crime Statistics

Round two of our AI Accelerators competition kicked off this week at Axon. Open to everyone. Find a way to use AI to move a real business outcome. The White House is running a version of the same experiment on roughly the same calendar. OSTP published a report this summer arguing American science has gotten slow, that too much money runs through legacy institutions instead of reaching the people doing the work. Back individual researchers and small teams directly. Build the research future around AI. I am a builder, not a policy expert. But round one told me something I already believed. The best AI ideas did not come from a central innovation group. They came from the people standing closest to the problem. The customer living with it every day, and the person on our team who cannot stop thinking about it. Our winning project took what the team had learned from customers and applied it internally. It is in production now. That team and their partners came with me to Cabo, and I learned more about what they navigate day to day than I would have in a year of meetings. Round two runs through Thanksgiving. Scored independently, not on the pitch but on what the thing actually did once it ran. Measured impact, evidence you can check, whether another team could repeat it. The Genesis Mission announces its next research awards this fall. Agencies file implementation plans around the same time. Two experiments, same question, same calendar. Thirty years in, the pattern has not changed. Every time I have bet on talented people close to the work and on the officers and customers willing to think a problem through with us, it has been a win for everyone. The best AI ideas came from the people closest to the problem. Who is closest to yours? OSTP Recommendations for Renewing American Scientific Discovery 👇

Last week Montana became the first state where an experimental drug can be sold to any consenting adult.  Most of us know someone in one of two situations. A chronic condition that medicine never had a good answer for. Or a person we love running out of time against a disease that will not wait. That gap always nags the problem solver in me. A promising treatment might sit in trials for a decade before it reaches the people who need it most. Now with science about to make a hyperjump in speed, it’s even more important that the path from a lab to a doctor’s hand keep up. Montana's answer is not to remove the guardrails. Every case goes to a review board that includes a licensed physician and an ethicist, and the patient gives full informed consent. It is a door opening, with qualified people watching who walks through it. I won’t pretend this settles the hardest questions. It does not. But a consenting adult, sitting across from a doctor, choosing to try something sooner rather than never, feels like hope. The builders are ready. The real question is how fast we let good judgment catch up to good science. Link below 👇

One of the biggest misconceptions about AI is that it's coming for everyone's jobs. I think it's doing something much more interesting. It's giving ordinary people capabilities that used to require entire teams of specialists. Google's new AI & Economy ATLAS study analyzed roughly 15 million real-world AI interactions across 800+ occupations. Their conclusion? People aren't primarily using AI to replace entire jobs. They're using it to research faster, analyze more information, write better, troubleshoot problems, and make better decisions. In other words... AI is changing tasks faster than it's changing jobs. That aligns almost perfectly with the strategy we've been building at @axon_enterprise. We don't think AI replaces first responders. We think it gives them superpowers. Draft One removes hours of report writing while improving quality. Brief One helps investigators and prosecutors find the evidence that actually matters instead of drowning in digital evidence. Axon Assistant lets officers naturally access information, perform database lookups, translate conversations in real time, and spend less time on the radio and more time focused on the people in front of them. That's the opportunity. Remove friction. Increase capability. Give people more time to do the uniquely human parts of the job: judgment, empathy, communication, and decision-making. I don't think AI's killer app is replacing people. I think it's finally letting people operate at the full extent of their potential. Source: Google's AI & Economy ATLAS 👇

Most people are trying to quit coffee. I started drinking it in my 40s — on purpose, as a longevity protocol. It happened in a meeting with our medical advisors. Someone brought up the studies showing coffee drinkers live longer. The room did what rooms do — jokes about whether Folgers had funded it. Then the laughing stopped and every one of them said the science was solid. I went home that night and told my wife — a lifelong daily drinker — "show me the way." So it was good to see the American Heart Association recently reverse a generation of advice. (Link below ⬇️) The old line: palpitations, high blood pressure, stress? Cut the coffee. They went back to the actual data. Up to about five cups of black coffee a day is safe for most adults — and it tracks with lower cardiovascular risk across a range of conditions. The old advice was intuition. The new position is evidence. I like it when the science catches up to what the people doing hard work already ran on. Coffee doesn't build anything. It just keeps good people at it a little longer. The pot stays on.👇

Fig ran away on the Fourth of July. Fireworks and gunfire, and a scared dog does not reason. She just runs. Her family looked for ten days and found nothing. Then a missing dog report reached the @TulareSheriff Office. Deputies had her home the next day. The camera caught the reunion. I have two dogs. I know what that doorway looks like, and I know what it would take out of me to lose it. We measure public safety in arrests and response times. Most of the job is quieter than that. Some days the best thing a deputy does all shift is open a car door and let a dog come home safe.🐶 📽️ 👇 #ProtectLife