[markstos]

So Flock helped solve a case nearly every day of the year?

[pavel_lishin]

Maybe! We don't know, all we know is that allegedly:

> Those searches played a part in “advancing 361 cases.”

What does "played a part" mean? What does "advancing a case" mean?

[FireBeyond]

If you're Flock, and an officer ran a search against a Flock database, for a crime that was later solved, regardless of how it was solved, they will crow that "Flock solved a crime".

[allthetime]

Reads like the intentionally obtuse language of an analytics guy making the numbers as big as possible without outright lying.

[thatcat]

They never solved any cases, only provided a warm lead once a day. If they solved many, they would be proud and say N cases solved. In this case N must be an embarrassingly small number since they don't use concrete language. It's like offering 5500$ to anyone that offers any information on any crime.