Justice & Public Safety
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The local police department recently unveiled a new rooftop drone port at headquarters. The agency fielded approximately 10,000 drone flights in 2025 and expects about twice as many this year. -
While the city has used drones before, Chief Roderick Porter said the two new aerial vehicles the department is getting under a contract with security tech company Flock Safety are more advanced.
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More than 200 Wisconsin law enforcement agencies use license plate reading technology. The state’s capital city, however, has so far not installed such cameras even as its neighbors have done so.
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The Baltimore County Council formally approved acceptance of the state grant Tuesday. The money comes from the state's Emergency Number Systems Board, which collects a fee from phone users.
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The police department's body camera policy is not yet written, but Chief Fred Fletcher said leaders are giving careful consideration to the policy's scope.
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After the Baltimore Police Department ran a secret aerial surveillance program over the city for months, state lawmakers and the ACLU are considering legislation that would regulate police surveillance programs.
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Dispute over Harris County, Texas, jail video highlights the growing prevalence of using videotape to review actions by officers in making arrests and by detention officers in their treatment of inmates in jail.
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The cameras were slow to begin recording from sleep mode; they were easily knocked off officers' uniforms; and a button that turns off sound could be inadvertently pressed.
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The police department plans to outfit a total of 250 patrol cars with the routers, which will allow officers to upload data from their cameras to a storage cloud at a very high rate.
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Officials were able to recover 3,300 videos, but about 2,283 other video files were overwritten before city technicians noticed the problem.
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Defense attorneys and some legal scholars suggest that he FBI committed more serious crimes than those they’ve arrested.
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Modern technology is generating data that allows criminal justice to add shades of gray to what has long been viewed as a black and white issue.
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The exponential escalation of mobile computing and analytics has given officers intelligence on the go and greatly improved their chances of being in the right place at the right time.
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With the playing field opened up for many more users, the FAA is expecting to see continued growth in the number of uses of unmanned aircraft.
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Moves to withhold the recordings from the public just make the problem of public trust in law enforcement worse.
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Surveillance cameras offer a powerful tool for law enforcement, but there are implications to consider for privacy, footage retention and public safety.
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Demands for a hearing come as the billionaire Texas philanthropists bankrolling the surveillance program revealed that they have given the initiative $360,000 through two charities.
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Juvenile offenders in Maryland are entitled by law to receive the same education as their peers in public schools; introducing tablet devices in these facilities is a step toward ensuring equality.
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There are already early warning systems for earthquakes, but advances in seismology provide hope that experts will be able to predict when new ones will occur.
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A police spokesman said he took issue with characterization of the program as "secret surveillance," suggesting there was no need for the department to make it public.
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No federal database provides reliable info on deaths that occur in police custody. It’s the same situation in 48 states. But now California and Texas are offering new models of accountability.
