Axon, the outfit that sells all the body cameras and tasers, just rang up another big quarter. Their latest financial reports, the ones printed on thick paper in a cold corporate office somewhere, show plenty of money changing hands. For the people on the street, this means more of their hardware deployed, more feeds running, more raw data piled up in the vast server farms that hum away out in the deserts and industrial parks.
They pulled in $904 million in revenue. That's a 35% jump from last year's haul. This isn't a fluke either. They've been growing at over 30% for ten quarters straight, a steady drip of cash for the company coffers. It means the gears keep grinding, the digital eyes keep watching. The numbers looked good on paper, a clear win for the suits running the show. What the market makes of those numbers, that's another story, played on screens with its own strange math. For the folks just trying to make sense of their daily lives, the connection between these big reports and their street level reality often gets lost in the shuffle.