A peer study analyzing 10 cities shows Nashville is an outlier when it comes to technology used in policing.
The Nashville Police and Public Safety Alliance commissioned the report, with Buntin Consulting studying how departments compare. The report featured crime trends, staffing and access to technology.
Right now, the Metro Nashville Police Department only uses public cameras dispersed throughout downtown. Those cameras helped in the nationalized case of Riley Strain, an inebriated college student who fell and drowned in the Cumberland River. However, those cameras only helped until a point — with no cameras pointing directly at the water to capture Strain…