Justice & Public Safety
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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."
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San Jose is the latest city whose use of the cameras to snag criminal suspects, critics say, also threatens privacy and potentially runs afoul of laws barring access by out-of-state and federal agencies.
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Lakeland, Fla., has managed to update and integrate its disparate surveillance and access control systems while avoiding significant upgrade costs.
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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.
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In one of Reynoldsburg, Ohio's two high schools, sensors would inform police of the shooter’s movements and location.
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Officers say the technology will allow for a safer, more focused, more effective apprehension of a suspect who flees.
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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.
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Many agencies buy a new radio system only to get an unpleasant and costly surprise soon after implementation.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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Officers posing as construction workers were dispatched to spot and ticket those texting from the driver's seat.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The next-generation emergency communications system will be built in four phases over the next five years, and is expected to boost speed, security and reliability between PSAP operators, dispatchers and first responders.
