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May 25, 2016

Smaller cities opening high-tech crime centers

  • Data collected by surveillance cameras, shotgun detection systems and license plate readers let even small cities give police real-time information about crimes.
  • By DAVE COLLINS
    Associated Press

    HARTFORD, Conn. — Michelle Plante scoured a surveillance video for clues, trying to identify the man seen shooting at someone in a Hartford playground recently in broad daylight. Luckily, no children were there, and the man fled into a nearby house after missing his target.

    Plante, who works in the new Real-Time Crime and Data Intelligence Center for Hartford police, determined the address of the house and who lived there. She ran names through databases, hoping to determine the name of the shooter.


     
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