Augusta, GA
Augusta uses same technology that caught Atlanta shooting suspect
AUGUSTA, Ga. – Atlanta-area regulation enforcement companies caught Wednesday’s mass capturing suspect with the assistance of Flock Security cameras – the identical expertise being utilized in Richmond County.
Cobb County Police Chief Stuart VanHoozer mentioned deputies noticed the suspect on a Georgia Division of Transportation digicam from inside their real-time crime heart. Then they noticed him going right into a constructing below building close to The Battery.
The cameras have been rolled out a number of months in the past in Augusta, however they’d been within the works right here for a very long time.
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“We’ve been attempting to develop a digicam program for the final 9 years,” Richmond County Chief Deputy Pat Clayton instructed Information 12 after the cameras have been put in.
“We’re capable of enter the data into the cameras, into the database within the cameras, and it mainly will help us hunt down individuals,” mentioned Clayton.
Dozens of the cameras have been put in, and regulation enforcement leaders need extra of them.
FLOCK CAMERA USAGE FROM MAY 10 TO SEPT 30
| Crime | Hits | Arrests |
|---|---|---|
| Aggravated assaults | 1 | 1 |
| Armed theft | 2 | 2 |
| Homicide | 2 | 2 |
| Sexual assault | 1 | 1 |
| Housebreaking | 1 | 1 (serial burglar) |
| Recovered stolen autos | 38 | 28 |
| Visitors hit and runs | 2 | 2 |
| Visitors fees | 1 | |
| Fugitives | 3 | 3 |
| Stolen tag recoveries | 3 | 0 |
| 54 | 41 |
Cobb County reportedly noticed a 63% discount in crime final 12 months due to the expertise.
Flock Security expertise is presently serving to to unravel crimes in over 3,000 communities within the U.S.
Nonetheless, there are some who take into account the rising digicam community an invasion of privateness. Legislation enforcement companies are conscious and looking for frequent floor.
“We welcome the dialog,” VanHoozer mentioned. “We need to make individuals protected whereas additionally defending individuals’s privateness that’s our aim.”
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