The Seattle Police Department (SPD) announced it will not tap into closed-caption television (CCTV) cameras to monitor the hundreds of thousands of soccer fans expected to travel to the city during this summer’s World Cup, unless an incident is deemed a credible threat.
The decision was announced during a media tour of Seattle’s Emergency Operations Center Monday, following a directive from Mayor Katie Wilson.
“In support of Mayor Wilson’s directive, those will only be activated in the event there’s a credible threat, or there we are responding to an incident in those areas, which is our policy with our Real Time Crime Center,” SPD Captain Daniel Nelson explained during a press conference portion of the media tour. “So that’s how they’ll be leveraged.”…