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This year, the Dallas Police Department installed 76 new surveillance cameras and 28 license plate readers in high-crime areas. Police officials say they have already had some positive early results from the technology.
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MSU Study Validates Accuracy and Crime Solving Benefits of Facial Recognition Technology and Raises Question of "What If?" this Breakthrough Facial Processing Software had been applied to Solve Recent High Profile Incidents
Read More →Carfax for Police can provide vehicle history intelligence to help investigators close a wide variety of cases.
Read More →Automated license plate reader (ALPR) technology allows law enforcement officers to quickly recognize expired tags and identify and locate stolen vehicles. But it's also often instrumental in finding wanted and missing persons and solving a wide range of crimes, including homicides.
Read More →Two men have been charged in the shooting death of a Gilbert (Ariz.) police lieutenant who pulled over their work truck a week ago for an obscured license plate.
Read More →Police Commissioner Michael Harrison said investigators pieced evidence together including security camera footage and used license plate readers to identify the owner of a vehicle seen fleeing the area.
Read More →The suspect was stopped for having a fake license plate, a common practice among sovereign citizens. The way he reacted to the stop—refusing to cooperate with the officer and saying the officer had no authority over him—is also common behavior for soverei
Read More →Can you accurately see and write down one license plate number per second while driving at up to 100 miles per hour, even with darkness or bright sun limiting your sight? Fortunately, there are automated systems that can do this for you.
Read More →In addition to asking for a driver's license, the officer would use the iPhone to photograph the suspect's face and iris (the colored ring around the pupil). It would allow officers to verify a suspect's identification and perhaps avoid dragging them back to the station.
Read More →Once upon a time you had to use your radio to run subjects for wants and warrants. Now, you can run as many subjects as you want. As if that wasn't enough, license plate recognition systems can alert you for warrants.
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