CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA (CVILLE RIGHT NOW) – Charlottesville Police Chief Mike Kochis, who just returned from a conference with local leaders and law enforcement from across the Commonwealth were sharing crime data with each other, told WINA’s Morning News there’s no question, “we are so far behind in this city when it comes to technology and the way we aggregate and bring together data.”
He said even though scrutiny of technological use by police — including the Flock license plate reader and Peregrine integrated data system – is not unique to Charlottesville, this community is indeed different.
“Warrenton’s going through it with the Flock conversation up there,” Kochis said of the town where he was chief before coming to Charlottesville. “There were people from Norfolk, Portsmouth, Richmond and other cities struggling with these things, and the data they’re using, the systems they’re using, one of which is Peregrine… they were connecting their data showing how many people served through the human services dashboard, looking at their crime dashboard, and connecting all this stuff.”…