The Connect Tallahassee program, under a new Real Time Crime Center venture, was announced on Friday and would allow homeowners and business owners to voluntarily sign up to give police near real-time access to their cameras.
“So we feel as though that’s a good investment because now the infrastructure costs we’re not going to have on procuring and trying to put up all the cameras ourselves. So we leverage what the community has. So we believe we’ll get a very good return on investment as we go through that,” said Jason Lowe, the co-director of the Real Time Crime Center.
FAMU Association Professor Dr. Lee Bushong, a policing expert, was initially hesitant because of the fourth amendment. But, he said after looking into it more, his concerns are gone…