A year into the launch of the Colorado Springs Police Department’s Real-Time Crime Center, the public is seeing proof that investments by local law enforcement agencies in cutting-edge technology like Flock cameras and drones are paying off in the Pikes Peak Region’s crime fight. The new technologies are on the job and doing yeoman’s work for the Springs police as well as the El Paso County Sheriff Office.
It’s a welcome contrast to the recent, orchestrated and misplaced outrage by activists up in Denver against their city’s use of the very same kinds of breakthrough innovations.
Sure, the likes of drones, when involved with policing and law enforcement, can raise questions. The same goes for cameras mounted in public, even if they only are scanning license plates in search of stolen cars. All of us want to ensure our civil liberties aren’t compromised, of course…