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 state Department of Transportation wants to see if the new technology could assist with bridge inspections.
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Body camera footage of a fatal police shooting that sparked unrest in Milwaukee's Sherman Park neighborhood will not be released until the Milwaukee County district attorney makes a charging decision, Attorney General Brad Schimel said Monday.
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Social media has been a net positive in the battle for weather awareness, but what does the future hold?
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Much of the opposition has solidified around the Legislature’s most conservative Republicans, who are leery of broadening police powers and see anti-texting laws as furthering an intrusive, “nanny state” government.
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The First Responder Network Authority announced the reappointment of three board members to an additional three-year term.
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The emerging counter-drone techniques come in response to amateur operators increasingly buzzing corporate headquarters, sports venues and private homes.
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Numbers of registered users of drones have reached more than half a million in the United States, and the trend points to higher numbers on the horizon.
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The objective of the four-week-long field test is to observe how these new systems work in a natural, unstructured landscape that is similar to Mars.
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The workshop, held at New Mexico State University's Unmanned Aircraft Systems Flight Test Center, will focus on providing a better understanding of technology, determine the right sensor and UAS for a particular application, and more.
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On Monday, the U.S. Geological Survey announced it was awarding a total of about $3.7 million to Central Washington University and five other universities working to develop the ShakeAlert system.
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Advance visioning is crucial to making sure you’re prepared to help when the unthinkable takes place.
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The “CT Prepares” app will provide information and alerts in emergency situations, as well as help state residents to prepare in advance of an emergency.
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The CalGang database has been open to local law enforcement agencies, but the state auditor has found that it's neglected and riddled with problems.
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The drone or glider must disappear to the naked eye, and as it breaks down, the remaining pieces can be no larger than 100 microns — about as small as the smallest grains of sand or twice the diameter of a strand of human hair.
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The Volusia County, Fla., Sheriff's Department has used confiscated funds to build a crime center that delivers real-time crime video to responding law enforcement officers.
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The solution to emergency communications: redundancy, redundancy, redundancy.
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This is the new era of neighborhood crime prevention, with images and immediate notifications, a significant upgrade from the old days of word-of-mouth warnings and community meetings.
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In a study aimed at the state legislation across the country, the Sunlight Foundation found that the overarching theme of legislation could largely be described by looking at four main points.
