Detectives in Spokane are using crime-mapping software to help predict when and where thieves might strike next
When people are on the run, they tend to move
Software called PredPol calculates its forecasts based on times and locations of previous crimes
The Los Angeles Police Department is the largest agency to use a crime-fighting method that crunches data to determine where to send officers to thwart would-be thieves and burglars
Mapping crime may help break pattern of violence in Dayton
Software is everywhere. Our vehicles utilize computer software to determine the fuel/oxygen mixture to run the engine for maximum gas mileage. Some of today’s kitchen refrigerators have touch scree...
A tech company demos a BlackBerry PlayBook’s features inside police vehicles
Civil libertarians say privacy at risk in $65 million computer project
Free service CrimeMapper.com paying big dividends
By Tim Dees Police1 Contributor If the processor, memory, hard drive and graphics card are the engine of a computer, software is the steering wheel, accelerator, brakes and navigation system. The b...
Raytheon's One Force Tracker can simultaneously coordinate police units
Department already uses Nixel to communicate with citizens
By Tim Dees Law enforcement agencies have always used geographic information services (GIS), but they used to be called "pin maps." One or more maps of the agency's service area had a map pin stuck...
Incident management software now includes law enforcement application
Web-based GIS service tracks and reports crime by type, location
Major upgrades for Midwest metropolis' safety network
New technology tracks vehicles without high-speed chase
The technology that supports the mission of law enforcement is evolving at an ever-increasing rate. Every year in the past decade has seen dramatic advances in technology that facilities the free-f...
By Jarret Winkelman Incident Response Technologies The addition of computers as standard equipment in police cars, fire trucks, and ambulances has introduced a new realm to public safety — mobile d...
By Tom Krisher Associated PressDETROIT — When two Visalia, Calif., police officers swung their cruisers behind a sport utility vehicle that had been carjacked at gunpoint early Sunday, they prepare...
You pull over a vehicle for a traffic violation, and do a background check. The vehicle's stolen; the suspect is wanted for armed robbery. It takes a split second to realize that this vehicle could...
By Demian Bulwa San Francisco ChronicleSAN FRANCISCO — Stanley Lew, like many drivers, claims strict deference to all traffic signs and signals. At least most of the time."We are not perfect human ...
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