21st Century
Crime Fighting
Using Digital Technology to Fight Crime
& Save Taxpayer Dollars
This is actually slide #20
• But apparently Chris ran out of things to say
Implementing Clearfield’s
Strategic Plan
• 3rd Environment: Local Government
– 3rd GOAL: Ensure Clearfield’s ability to effectively secure
and maintain its overall public safety needs and mitigate
natural and man-made emergencies quickly and efficiently
• 1st Area of Emphasis: Public Safety & Security
– 2nd Strategy: Use available technology to reduce
crime, solve crimes and improve conviction rates
» 1st Tactic: Purchase and implement GIS-based
and other digital technologies that increase
efficiency of resource allocation and reduce
response times to active incidents
Three Solutions
• GIS-based “Hot Spot” software
system
• Digital dash cameras and digital
lapel cameras
• Wireless, city-wide pole-mounted
digital camera system
GIS “Hot Spot” Solution
Crime does not occur evenly over the landscape.
It is clustered in small areas, or “hot spots” that
account for a disproportionate amount of crime
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In Minneapolis, three percent of the city's addresses accounted for 50
percent of calls for service to the police in one study.
In Jersey City, N.J., about four percent of streets and intersection areas
generated nearly half of the city's narcotics arrests and almost 42 percent
of the disorder arrests.
In addition to location, crimes tend to concentrate at certain times of
the day or week. Assaults, for example, occur most frequently
between 3:00 a.m. and 7:00 a.m. Residential burglaries mostly occur
during daytime hours. DUIs occur more frequently in areas with a
large number of bars or liquor stores.
GIS “Hot Spots” Solution
Information is power over a problem.
You likely already have the
information in electronic format
sitting there in your database.
The challenge is ACCESS!
GIS “Hot Spots” Solution
The right software solution pulls
that data from storage,
coordinates and compiles it
and then combines it with GIS
technology to show you
exactly when and where the
crimes in your community are
occurring. As trends change,
the software automatically
captures those trends for
continued efficient allocation
of resources.
Clearfield
theft &
larcenies last
90 days
GIS “Hot Spots” Solution
GIS “Hot Spots” Solution
Purchase Price: $24,500
Cost to Clearfield City?
0.00
It was free!! Sort of. More about that
later…
Digital Dash Cams, Lapel Cams &
Laptops
The Challenge:
• Archaic VCR systems bulky, unreliable and stationary
• Tapes were lost, destroyed or worn out
• Poor video quality, lack of detail or focus
The Solution:
• Digital dashboard camera system and digital lapel
camera system, software, new laptops and new
servers for all 32 vehicles/officers
Digital Dash Cams, Lapel Cams &
Laptops
The Results:
• Higher quality digital video
• Automatically downloaded to secure servers wirelessly when
pulling into city hall
• Dash cams also include “back seat cam”
• Automatically recording when lights turned on and recording
started up to 5 minutes before activation
• Helps with prosecution. Allows juries to “be a part of the
incident”
– In today’s “CSI” environment, it’s almost expected
• Helps with liability and false claims
Lapel Cams
Dash/Backseat Cam
Digital Dash Cams, Lapel Cams &
Laptops
Purchase Price: $400,000
Cost to Clearfield City?
0.00
It was free!! Sort of. More about that
later…
City-wide Digital Wireless Pole
Camera System
The Issue:
City-wide Digital Wireless Pole
Camera System
• 15 wireless, 360 degree digital
pole cameras installed in first
phase in public areas: Parks,
Trails, PW infrastructure
• Dispatch can guide and direct
response
• Can be controlled with
authorized use by dispatch or by
officers on patrol with laptops
• Can also be set with motion
sensors to turn on recording
automatically
• Manage public perception: “Big
Brother” issues
City-wide Digital Wireless Pole
Camera System
City-wide Digital Wireless Pole
Camera System
Purchase Price: $225,000
Cost to Clearfield City?
0.00
It was free!! Sort of. More about that
now…
Free Money? Federal Appropriations
• For the past four years, Clearfield City has made appropriation
requests (yup, EARMARKS!) through its Washington, DC lobbyist for
public safety, public works and economic development projects
• Earmarks use existing federal grant programs. The marks direct the
Executive Branch to award grant monies to specific projects in
legislative districts, thus bypassing the usual competitive
(application) process.
• Appropriation/earmark requests are currently not being accepted
by Utah’s delegation, and not being approved at all in the House.
This does NOT mean grant monies are not available or that funding
has necessarily been cut. On the contrary…the money now goes to
the Executive Branch for determining disbursement, instead of by
direct appropriation by Representatives or Senators.
• That’s how we paid for these public safety technology
improvements through the COPS grant program
Conclusion
Digital and GIS-based technologies
are helping Clearfield City be more
efficient in its use of resources,
limiting the city’s overall liability,
fighting crime better and
improving the public’s overall
health, safety and welfare