One recent spring day, two cops in the Newark Police Dept. watched a shoot-out erupt in broad daylight. Two suspected drug dealers started blasting away at each other in the middle of an apartment complex. The cops didn’t witness the violence on the beat, though. They watched it from the city’s new communications command center, which collects live video feeds from more than 100 surveillance cameras scattered across the crime-ridden city.

As the shooting broke out, the

policemen zoomed in on the scene with a joystick controller. They saw one gunman flee, while the other dragged himself into a nearby apartment, one blood-soaked leg trailing behind. considering of the camera network, the Newark police were able to dispatch a team to the crime scene immediately — 90 seconds before the first 911 calls. The gunman who crawled into his apartment was arrested on the spot. “Those complexes are like […]

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