The DeKalb County government announced that, in addition to its new investments in police salaries and staffing , it’d be breaking ground on a real-time crime center on Friday.
“This is about leveraging technology to prevent and deter crime and quickly apprehend perpetrators,” County CEO Lorraine Cochran-Johnson said in a statement. “We are building a tech-forward infrastructure that empowers officers with immediate intelligence, speeds up investigations, and improves community safety outcomes.”
According to the county, officials recently toured several centers in the metro Atlanta area, including the City of Atlanta’s Loudermilk Video Integration Center, Cobb County’s Real-Time Crime Center , and the Dunwoody Police Department Real-Time Crime Center to learn about their best practices and how they built out the necessary technology infrastructure…