Justice & Public Safety
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Local law enforcement praises the devices, hundreds of which are in place, for helping solve crimes. Privacy and surveillance concerns, however, persist among critics and industry watchers. -
Through electronic queueing and a pilot of drive-through court services, the governments hope to handle a rise in court transactions driven largely by an increase in traffic violations around school buses.
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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.
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Tweets about the Bryan PD shed light on law enforcement protocols and a day in the life of an officer.
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The technology allows police officers to decide if they want to be tracked via their department-issued cellphones.
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Teams of emergency managers and disaster volunteers lend virtual support to those on the site of a disaster.
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Private facilities can share building data with public safety responders via a common dashboard, providing key situational awareness in an emergency.
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The new SMS emergency alert notification system was integrated into a similar system built in-house by the university.
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From planning activities to grant funding, the wheels are moving to provide emergency responders with a high-speed, nationwide public safety network in the near future.
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After experiencing a homicide rate that earned it international attention last year, Chicago is upending the traditional style of policing and using social networks to rank people’s likelihood of killing and being killed.
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The expanded video infrastructure will assist with claims investigations connected to alleged staff misconduct.
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An information artist uses DNA analysis to create a 3-D portrait of what an individual looks like.
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Twitter Alerts aims to get information from vetted, credible organizations to the public during an emergency.
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Following the lead of many countries around the world, Calif. Gov. Jerry Brown signed a bill authorizing an $80 million system that lets people know when an earthquake is about to hit.
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Palm Beach County, Fla., is installing an emergency vehicle priority system that adjusts traffic signal times to help improve traffic flow for fire and rescue teams.
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A predictive policing tool in use in the U.S. and abroad helps law enforcement predict crime in the same way that geologists predict earthquakes.
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The Snohomish County, Wash., 911 center adopted an online training tool that can integrate multiple forms of media into a course.
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To the dismay of civil liberties activists, Oakland, Calif.'s Domain Awareness Center could unite many disparate security resources from around the city.
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A new app tested by the San Francisco Police Department will soon be available across the state of California.
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The U.S. Navy selected Modus Operandi to begin developing crowdsourcing situational awareness software that leverages data from social media.
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In the future, sensors traditionally used to detect temperature or noise could be utilized by emergency managers and first responders to enhance their response.
