Justice & Public Safety
-
A donation of more than $400,000 enabled the county police department to add two new drones to its fleet of seven. Among residents, however, concerns over being surveilled persist. -
In the two years since the state released guidance for localities interested in speed or red-light cameras, fewer than 10 percent of its municipalities have submitted and won approval of plans.
-
Responder MAX will focus on marketing, communications, recruitment and other areas. First Arriving, which has worked with some 1,300 agencies, will keep involved with its "real-time information platform."
More Stories
-
The Dark Web is a haven for drug dealers, arms traffickers, child pornography collectors and other criminals -- and also is a bastion of free speech for political dissidents living under oppressive regimes and a sanctuary from government surveillance.
-
Lakeland, Fla., has managed to update and integrate its disparate surveillance and access control systems while avoiding significant upgrade costs.
-
Today, the FirstNet train is steaming down the track -- and the timetable for its future stops on that railroad to public safety wireless nirvana are visible.
-
In one of Reynoldsburg, Ohio's two high schools, sensors would inform police of the shooter’s movements and location.
-
Officers say the technology will allow for a safer, more focused, more effective apprehension of a suspect who flees.
-
At about five miles southeast of the airport, the pilot spotted the drone flying about 50 feet from the plane at an altitude of 2,500 feet.
-
Many agencies buy a new radio system only to get an unpleasant and costly surprise soon after implementation.
-
The drone deposited a package containing enough tobacco for seven packs of smokes, enough marijuana for about 70 joints and a dollop of heroin that could yield more than 100 doses at Ohio's Mansfield Correctional Institution.
-
While many factors were involved, one of the most important is that the quickly developing supercell thunderstorm that spawned the tornado formed at such a low level that the radar station did not detect it forming due to curvature of the earth.
-
The latest piece of Congressional legislation in support of body cameras came last week from the Sen. Tim Scott, who introduced the Safer Officers and Safer Citizens Act.
-
South San Francisco's IT department created an app for the city's police department that helped officers visualize reports from the field while investigating a murder case from 1976.
-
New Jersey officials recently announced a program to equip all state troopers with body cameras and pressed local departments to do the same. But who will foot the bill?
-
While the social media can't replace face-to-face interactions, it has a wider reach, and with such platforms as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Periscope, police can hold "virtual community meetings" every couple of minutes.
-
The U.S. Geological Survey has awarded the money to four universities where scientists are completing a “ShakeAlert” system that has already proved successful in at least two recent reality trials as quakes struck the state.
-
Officers posing as construction workers were dispatched to spot and ticket those texting from the driver's seat.
-
The system was rooted in the belief that some criminals' methods were unique enough to serve as a kind of behavioral DNA — allowing identification based on how a person acted, rather than their genetic make-up.
-
In addition to standard equipment, firefighters also deployed a drone — the first live test of a technology they've been piloting for about two months.
-
The measure bars flights of any UAV equipped with a camera above any county facility without authorization, and bans flights over county parks without a permit.
